{"id":19043,"date":"2009-02-24T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/02\/24\/rob-cockerham-investigates-those-companies-that-pay-cash-for-gold\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T10:00:01","slug":"rob-cockerham-investigates-those-companies-that-pay-cash-for-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090224-01\/?p=19043","title":{"rendered":"Rob Cockerham investigates those companies that pay cash for gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Rob Cockerham seems to have a lot of spare time, which is great for the rest of us, because he investigates all those things we simply don&#8217;t have the time for, and then posts the results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cockeyed.com\/\"> on his Web site<\/a> (&#8220;The sixth-best website in the world&#8221;). <\/p>\n<p> Today&#8217;s highlight is a pair of investigations he performed some time ago which seem to show two sides of one industry. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cockeyed.com\/citizen\/goldkit\/gold_kit.shtml\">     The Gold Kit Surprise<\/a>,     he sprays some worthless junk with gold paint and sends it in.     Just writing that sentence made me laugh with anticipation     and I haven&#8217;t even gotten to the punch line yet.     Read it through. <\/li>\n<li>In     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cockeyed.com\/citizen\/goldkit\/cheat.shtml\">     Cash4Gold Will Offer One-Third of the Actual Value for your Gold<\/a>,     he sends actual gold to Cash4Gold to see how much they offer for it.     Well, the title gives away the punch line,     but it&#8217;s still worth reading. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> That Web site is a sinkhole of time-wastage. If you&#8217;re not careful, you&#8217;ll find yourself clicking around from story to story, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cockeyed.com\/inside\/howmuchinside.html\"> How much is inside?<\/a> adventures, in which he investigates things like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cockeyed.com\/inside\/threadcount\/threadcount01.shtml\"> how many threads per inch are there in 360-thread count pillowcases?<\/a> Or his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cockeyed.com\/incredible\/incredible.html\"> gallery of costumes<\/a> (for Hallowe&#8217;en or other events), including my favorite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cockeyed.com\/incredible\/paparazzi\/paparazzi.html\"> Paparazzi<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Cockerham seems to have a lot of spare time, which is great for the rest of us, because he investigates all those things we simply don&#8217;t have the time for, and then posts the results on his Web site (&#8220;The sixth-best website in the world&#8221;). Today&#8217;s highlight is a pair of investigations he performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-19043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Rob Cockerham seems to have a lot of spare time, which is great for the rest of us, because he investigates all those things we simply don&#8217;t have the time for, and then posts the results on his Web site (&#8220;The sixth-best website in the world&#8221;). Today&#8217;s highlight is a pair of investigations he performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}