Al Craig is an independent businessman who has spent most of his life involved in various businesses and investments. His business experience includes: lock security installation and sales, advertising sales, mortgage financing, insurance, business sales, and tax shelter limited partnership sales. Limited Partnership Sales include: insurance, mining, real estate, oil and gas, software, and high tech products and research. Investment experience includes: bullion investing, coin collecting, gold and silver futures, limited partnership tax shelters, stock investments and trading, real estate, and financing. In short Al Craig has a lot of experience with a lot of different investments, businesses, and lots of different buyers and sellers-both good, very good, bad and really bad. It is from these varied experiences that the author has learned to spot the con artists and cheats that proliferate amongst us, taking our trust and hard earned money. Al Craig knows firsthand what it feels like to be taken by these societal rats. He has felt the pain, embarrassment, and anger that results from giving your trust to someone who abuses it. These experiences have led him on a quest to inform others of what to watch out for to avoid becoming someone's next meal ticket. To hone his experience he has also read and studied countless books on how scammers operate and what causes them to do what they do. It is Al's hope that you will learn from his experience, knowledge, and pain to avoid becoming another casualty when selling your old gold. It is also his hope that by using the information in this book you can do your part in putting out of business or work all the cheats that take your trust and money as well as your families' future trust and money. Thank you for taking the time to help prevent this from happening to you and those you love in the area of selling gold jewelry. Here's to successful old gold selling without getting scammed.