• While many companies appear to offer up to "3X as much" for gold, their fine print reveals a multitude of terms and conditions that essentially render the promise obsolete. Our direct business dealings require no pressure to purchase additional goods or services.
• By putting a "face to a name", CGS eliminates the uncertainty and unreliability that comes with conducting business online or through other impersonal channels.
• Reputable team members work around your schedule to provide convenient in-home evaluations as well as all necessary materials to effortlessly complete your transaction.
• CGS affords its clients privacy, and avoids the hassle of driving to unfamiliar and isolated locations.

Historically, many emerging businesses around the world received their initial financing by utilizing their family's gold as collateral. More recently, Americans have become increasingly aware of this market through advertisements inundating the airways and pawn shops saturating the streets. Regrettably, several of these faceless participants have taken advantage of consumers through unethical practices, which target households desperate to find funds to meet payment obligations.

Green Minded Result

Want a greener reason than money?

Unfortunately, there is a hidden environmental cost to the gold used to make our jewelry. The production of the gold needed for just the average 18-karat gold ring leaves 20 tons of polluted mining waste behind.*

Much of today's mining activity occurs in open-pit gold mines. In these sites, animals indigenous to the site are removed so that the ore can be blasted out. Not only does this process destroy the landscape, but it produces 8 to 10 times more waste than traditional underground mining.**

Another even more serious problem is the fact that gold is now rarely found as nuggets, but rather is extracted chemically from the one by using a cyanide leaching process. The long time frames and the extensiveness of the operations required for this process usually lead to cyanide and other toxins eventually leaching into the surrounding land, surface water, and groundwater.***

Recycling your unwanted and unwearable jewelry greatly reduces the need for new gold to be mined and allows for improved environmental processes to be implemented.

Give your unwanted gold a new "green lease on life"!

* "Ruined Lands, Poisoned Waters." Dirty Metals: Mining, Communities and the Environment (2004). 1-9. Web. 26 Apr 2010
** World Gold Council. Gold Supply and Demand, 2009, based on data from GFMS. http://www.reserach.gold.org
*** U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2009. Toxics Release Inventory, Reporting Year 2008 National Analysis.