{"id":351,"date":"2008-06-27T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T16:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/351"},"modified":"2008-06-27T11:36:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T16:36:25","slug":"turn-your-gold-into-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Turn Your Gold Into Cash!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lJWlacJ2zmo&amp;feature=related\" title=\"video\" target=\"_blank\">commercials<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C21v5Sxm0Zo&amp;feature=related\" title=\"video\" target=\"_blank\">GoldKit<\/a>, where you send in your old jewelry for cash. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldkit.com\/\" title=\"GoldKit.com\" target=\"_blank\">the official website<\/a> they will buy all of your &#8220;scrap gold jewelry, coins&#8230; you can also sell a gold tooth.&#8221; I wish that last bit was a typo, but it is not.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the deal. GoldKit sends you an envelope to put your gold in. You send it back in a pre-paid Business Reply Mail envelope. They send you a letter back detailing what your stuff is worth, and you get to decide if you want to cash in.<\/p>\n<p>How could I possibly resist taking part in this scam? I dashed to the official website and within 48 hours a GoldKit envelope arrived in the mail. Only it arrived unsealed. Classy. I definitely want to send my precious metals in a company&#8217;s envelopes when they can&#8217;t close properly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/goldkit1.jpg\" alt=\"goldkit1.jpg\" title=\"goldkit1.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is time to load my precious metals into the enclosed bag and envelope.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/goldkit2.jpg\" alt=\"goldkit2.jpg\" title=\"goldkit2.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\" border=\"0\" height=\"533\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What did I send?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A necklace I found on the ground<\/li>\n<li>A golden Dorito<\/li>\n<li>A SanDisk MicroSD to SD card adapter<\/li>\n<li>A code cartridge for a blood glucose monitor<\/li>\n<li>A gold Post-It Note of a treasure chest that I drew<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/goldkit3.jpg\" alt=\"goldkit3.jpg\" title=\"goldkit3.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\" border=\"0\" height=\"533\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to see how this turns out. I hope the Dorito gets there in one piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen the commercials for GoldKit, where you send in your old jewelry for cash. According to the official website they will buy all of your &#8220;scrap gold jewelry, coins&#8230; you can also sell a gold tooth.&#8221; I wish that last bit was a typo, but it is not. Here is the deal. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turn Your Gold Into Cash!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genius","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}