Is fraudulent gold jewelry a real problem?

It is.  In the U.S.A., Amazon has problems with overseas sellers calling their gold 14k when it is not, or heavily gold plated jewelry passing even the educated eyes as pure gold.  Gold surge in value has not changed this for the better. Abroad, foreign jewelry is plagued with gold purity problems and even bullion has issues:  tungsten wafers are coated in gold to imitate bars and coins.  We have even heard of local sales on craigslist including false signet markings.  In the industry, it is common that some small un-reputable shops will sell 13.1 karat as 14 karat.  All these issues made us nervous when we were consumers.  

We deal with this problem by removing it.  First, we only sell 99.99% pure gold.  Second, we are American made. Third we are based in America and our phone number and location is easy to find. We have written our .9999 fine gold Material Guarantee all over our website. All this means we make all our gold product in house in America, so we have total control over the purity of gold we produce and all other aspects of production.  We laser engrave and back it with a Laser Inscribed Guarantee  that includes the weight, our maker’s mark and purity on each piece of gold we produce: no guesswork, no testing and no problems.  We sell only what is traditionally called “bullion gold” as jewelry … gold that is 99.99% pure … and we even back it with a Recast Guarantee because it is functionally almost indistructable.  We buy it as bullion directly from a private U.S. refinery that has been doing business with our team since the 1970s.  

Made in the Melting Pot of America with Family Values 🍀👍

www.rhodes24k.com

24k gold | .9999 fine gold jewelry