In these economic times, it's tough to find anyone who will give you a good bribing anymore. Like last week I caught Ben Affleck peeing in some bottled holy water then selling it on a street corner. He could have totally bribed me but was so strung out on scooby snacks he didn't even care that I knew his secret ingredient. Too bad, now everybody knows his secret and I would have kept quiet with a bribe as small as a bottle or two of his holy water.

Although bribes may be in short supply, one shady company has no qualms tossing them about (but to my financial dismay, they have not tossed one my way). I'm talking about the notorious "Cash 4 Gold", claiming to pay top dollar for your scrap or unwanted gold jewelry. I've written about the Cash 4 Gold scam before, exposing their offensive lowball offers - so now it seems they can't pay top dollar for gold because they're too busy paying top dollar bribing people not to expose their scam.

Here's an example of Cash 4 Gold apparently bribing a blogger who posted a story about their ridiculously low offer for some gold. The story caught the attention of Cash 4 Gold who offered the blogger "a few thousand dollars" to remove his website. The funny thing is, his story mentioned they only offered $60 for $180 worth of gold - yet they're more than willing to pay thousands to keep it a secret that they're ripping people off!

Now that brings up my question - why doesn't Cash 4 Gold bribe me? My previous post about their scam is on the first page of Google results for "cash for gold scam". That oughta be worth something, right. At least a couple nachos, I'd hope.

Heck, why stop with me... why don't we get Cash 4 Gold to bribe everyone? We'll all just set up websites exposing their shady ripoff for what it is then sell the websites to Cash 4 Gold for fun and/or profit.

That's a much better plan than the underwear gnomes.