[Infowarrior] - The Article Cash4Gold Doesn't Want You To Read

[Richard Forno]

The Article Cash4Gold Doesn't Want You To Read
2:11 PM on Tue Sep 1 2009, 7,507 views
By Ben Popken and Meg Marco
http://consumerist.com/5349663/the-article-cash4gold-doesnt-want-you-to-read

If you have any broken, ugly jewelry lying around in a drawer  
somewhere, you've probably taken notice of a company called Cash4Gold  
that promised to pay "top dollar" for your not-so-precious precious  
metals. If you're like us, you might have even seen a post on  
ComplaintsBoard.com by a former employee exposing Cash4Gold.

The whistleblower's post appeared on ComplaintsBoard last November. We  
featured it this February, as part of our ongoing coverage of  
Cash4Gold, after the company raised its public profile with a multi- 
million dollar Super Bowl ad. The post was indeed written by an ex- 
employee, Michele Liberis, who is now being sued by the company for  
defamation. Recently, Cash4Gold added Consumerist and ComplaintsBoard  
as co-defendants in its lawsuits (PDF) against Liberis and another  
former employee, Vielka Nephew (PDF), in an attempt to force us to  
take the information down. Liberis and Nephew have chosen to stand up  
to Cash4Gold's legal attack, and so have we.

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Just to be clear about the Consumerist's position, we consider this a  
legitimate and even important news story. One core mission of a  
consumer-oriented news site is to alert its readers to bad deals.  
Everything we've learned about Cash4Gold's offer so far places it in  
that category, in our view. That's why we have resisted the legal  
efforts to silence our reporting, and why we've continued to dig into  
the story, despite the company's lack of cooperation.