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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1416751, member: 75105&quot;]There are two &quot;traveling roadshows&quot; that travel the country. These places are nothing but a scam. </p><p>They place full page, color ads in newspapers &quot;paying top dollar for antiques, coins,&quot; etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>They usually set up at motels and other event centers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They operate under:</p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Ohio Valley Gold &amp; Silver Refinery</font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p><p>Treasure Hunter Roadshow</p><p>Buy it Now.</p><p>Free Roadshow.</p><p><br /></p><p>These people are nothing but low-balling scammers. </p><p><br /></p><p>Their advertising scheme involves prices like &quot;up to 65,000 dollars for silver dollars&quot;. This draws the crowd in.</p><p><br /></p><p>They rip off the elderly who live on fixed income, and people who do not have price guides.</p><p><br /></p><p>This outfit set up in my town last year.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were paying about $8 each for silver dollars. This was when silver was at an all time high. The melt value alone on a silver dollar was well over $30.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday I visited an elderly lady who I purchased a butter container full of wheat cents from. She was told by this outfit that her wheat cents were only worth face value. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>We need to make all friends, family members, etc aware. Do not take any gold/silver jewelry, coins, antiques etc to any place that flys by night, or sets up temporarily.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you may be thinking &quot;well if people are uneducated then that&#039;s their fault&quot;. While that MAY hold truth, intentionally ripping off the elderly who sometimes do not have the means to educate themselves is a whole different ball game.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some other things they did that got them in hot water.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. They told most of the media &quot;we buy things for our collectors&quot;. They word things to sound like it&#039;s actual collectors buying your stuff FOR THEIR collection. Not shysters buying stuff to resell at absurd profits. </p><p><br /></p><p>2. They had signage saying they were BBB accredited. A BBB agent saw that sign and come to find out they were not... whoops! </p><p><br /></p><p>3. They wrote bad checks....tons of them actually.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www2.wrbl.com/news/2011/mar/02/bbb-answering-calls-about-traveling-treasure-hunte-ar-1529863/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www2.wrbl.com/news/2011/mar/02/bbb-answering-calls-about-traveling-treasure-hunte-ar-1529863/" rel="nofollow">http://www2.wrbl.com/news/2011/mar/02/bbb-answering-calls-about-traveling-treasure-hunte-ar-1529863/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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