CJ Environmental

CJ Environmental is an American company that operates a precious metals scrap refining, electronic scrap refining, and dental scrap refining service for businesses and the general public. CJ Environmental is owned by the Schneider family, who have worked in the precious metals business for 35 years. The company’s chief enterprise is the purchase of unwanted or broken gold jewelry, sterling silver and diamonds from consumers through television-advertised mail-in services and through hosted parties, refining these materials, and re-selling them on the spot market. The company was named one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies in 2009.
CashForGoldUSA.com is often known for its tongue-in-cheek television ads using absurd circumstances where one might harvest gold for resale. One ad features a cash-strapped wife smiling as her jewelry-laden husband drops dead at the kitchen table. Another features a relative with a pair of pliers approaching a sleeping elderly woman with a row of glinting golden teeth.
CashForGoldUSA.com
CJ Environmental operates CashForGoldUSA.com, which the company launched in 2005, and has serviced approximately 100,000 customers. The company finds potential sellers through what the company calls gold parties, where a local resident hosts a party and invites friends who are curious about selling their gold. A company representative attends the party and tests and weighs the gold to assess its worth, and then pays willing sellers by check. The price they pay for the gold varies, depending on the weight, purity, and current market price for gold.
Through the CashForGoldUSA.com division CJ Environmental also operates a mail-in business where customers can send their gold to the company through a pre-paid and insured envelope the company refers to in its advertising as a Free Goldpak. The Goldpak is used to mail in the gold material. After the company receives the material, it assesses and weighs the contents and pays the customer by check or through the electronic payment service PayPal. They also operate a Spanish-language version of the website called EfectivoPorOro.com.
Foxnews DC Report on Mail-In Gold Services
In 2009, Fox News affiliate Fox 5 in Washington D.C. conducted an evaluation of mail-in cash for gold services, including CJ Environmental’s CashForGoldUSA.com. A journalist from the station purchased three identical 14k gold necklaces from a jewelry retailer, then solicited shipping materials from three companies: Broken Gold (BGC Management, Inc.), Cash4Gold (Green Bullion Financial Services, LLC), and CashForGoldUSA.com (CJ Environmental). In return for the identical 1.3 gram necklaces, reporter Stacia Thompson received $5.60 from Broken Gold, $5.52 from Cash4Gold, and $15.50 from CJ Environmental’s CashForGoldUSA.com.
Other Services
CJ Environmental also accepts and refines precious metals from recycled motherboards, memory chips, processors, cell phones and other precious metal bearing items from electronic and computer scrap. CJ Environmental collects gold, silver, platinum and palladium from these parts and returns cash to the consumer or business recycling the components, as well as providing a certificate of recycling or destruction after recycling the materials.
The company also offers a service similar to their gold mail-in program that allows consumers to send in their old Crowns, Bridges and for cash. CJ Environmental also operates an affiliate program, CashForSilverUSA.com, that provides a silver mail-in service comparable to the one offered for gold.
See also
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*Precious metals
*Gold
*Gold as an investment

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