Don't be fooled by gold jewelry buying scams

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Jewelery scale weighing gold
Jewelery scale weighing gold

Don't let the promise of quick cash for your gold jewelry lure you into a bad deal from a buyer using an inaccurate scale.

New Jersey's Office of Weights and Measures has cited 49 businesses for violations, including using unregistered or uninspected scales, not giving consumers detailed receipts and, in some cases, using scales that had been tampered with to register lighter weights.

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