{"id":1817,"date":"2010-07-14T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midastouch.goldgenie.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2010-07-14T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T15:00:57","slug":"gold-ipad-in-exchange-for-your-scrap-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/gold-ipad-in-exchange-for-your-scrap-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold iPad in exchange for your scrap gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ounces 2 Pounds offers to buy gold at 100% of  the scrap value if  it&#8217;s converted to\u00a0a Goldgenie gold Apple iPod or iPad.\u00a0 Gold  party organisers Ounces 2 Pounds are offering their  customers an unprecedented 100% of the value of their scrap or unwanted  gold jewelry! \u201cWe normally pay 60% of the spot prices of precious metals  which is how we pay for smelting and still make a profit,\u201d explained  Ounces 2 Pounds CEO Krista Waddell. \u201cBut we have joined forces with  gold-plating and customization firm  Goldgenie to offer our customers vouchers for 100% of the value of their  gold which are redeemable for a gold-plated iPod or iPad from Goldgenie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">\n<p>Ounces 2 Pounds are renowned for  offering their customers better deals than other gold re-cycling firms. A  recent investigation by the Office of Fair Trading discovered that some  postal gold companies where offering as little as 6% of the spot price  of gold to their customers.\u00a0 \u201cSome people will want the cash for  other purposed but some of our customers will like the idea of turning  their scrap jewelry into a gold-plated iPod. That\u2019s quite a status  symbol!\u201d said Ms Waddell.\u00a0 \u201cWe  launched the American phenomenon of Gold Parties to Britain in March  last year as a safe and fun way for people to scrap their unwanted gold  jewelry without being exposed to the sharp practices of some postal gold  companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">\u201cWe  have bought \u00a32 million worth of gold this year but we haven\u2019t yet  scratched the surface of the UK market,\u201d she said.\u00a0 Customers  wishing to take-up the Goldgenie offer will have to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ounces2pounds.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ounces2pounds.co.uk<\/a> to acquire a  valuation envelope. Ounces 2 Pounds will offer them either 60% of the  scrap value in cash or vouchers for a Goldgenie iPad or iPod.\u00a0 Goldgenie will  redeem the voucher for an unprecedented 100% of the spot price of the  gold on that day which can be used to purchase Goldgenie gold-plated  products <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.goldgenie.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Krista-Waddell-testing-gold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1847\" title=\"Krista Waddell testing gold\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Krista-Waddell-testing-gold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Krista-Waddell-Low.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1848\" title=\"Krista Waddell - Low\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Krista-Waddell-Low.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ounces 2 Pounds CEO Krista Waddell<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ounces 2 Pounds offers to buy gold at 100% of the scrap value if it&#8217;s converted to\u00a0a Goldgenie gold Apple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,41],"tags":[579,794,921,952,995,999,1229],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-products-services","tag-gold","tag-goldgenie","tag-ipad","tag-ipod","tag-krista-waddell","tag-laban-roomes","tag-ounces-2-pounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}