What's the secret then to knowing you have not been ripped off by the gold buyer when you receive your check? I assume the answer is you need to weigh all of your gold before shipment so you'll have a good idea on how large the check should be.
I know some people here have posted stories of being treated fairly on a sale or two then not receiving a fair check on a later sale. I wonder if it's possible that someone at the company has managed to steal some of your gold & that's why you get a short check after being treated fairly in the past? When the gold packages that are sent in by customers are opened up there must certainly be some sort of internal security there to prevent employees from opening a package, sticking some gold in their pockets & weighing the rest for you. Those people are certainly being monitored, possibly on video, etc. However, where there's a will, there's a way. Maybe, it's somehow getting stolen by employees. I used to work in security at a watch factory & the alarm would go off that watches were missing off the assembly line. We would round up all the employees from that assembly line, search them with metal detectors & we would never find the missing watches. They also went through metal detectors as they walked out the door & never found the watches. I heard some rumors on how they were doing it, like removing the watch band, throwing it away & sliding the watch into their lunch thermos but we never caught them. My point being, we watched those people like hawks & I only caught one guy stealing a watch red handed and the rest were never caught. If one of those gold companies treats you fairly twice in a row then rips you off the third time then I think an employee stole some of your gold.
