China’s Gold Scams Soar: Soil Inside Gold Bracelets, Steel Wires Sold as Gold, Even by Top Brands

In March this year, a consumer discovered that a gold bracelet she bought from Lao Feng Xiang, a renowned Chinese jewelry brand, contained soil. So she went to the gold shop to confront the seller.

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[butter]

Seriously what do you expect from a country that counterfeits raw eggs?

[justacopywriter]

7:17 "The purer the gold, the more susceptible it is to corrosion" is a complete LIE.

[sukhwinderchadha]

You just can't trust them on anything.

[geomacaulay]

Store owner lied. Pure gold does not corrode or tarnish.

[buggyman]

Who in their right mind would would buy expensive jewelry in china?? 😂

[IIDX]

How many times are you gonna be fooled by the same scams? This BS is ingrained in the culture.

[luisponceart]

It sucks when even renowned places do these scams. These weren’t bought from the flea market or salesmen in the hood, it’s from established jewelry shops

[g.mendoza]

This country is fake. Everything is fake. 😂😂😂

[tarstarkusz]

Gold does not corrode. It is a noble non-reactive metal.

[KeithZSD]

Yeah. "Go to court I dare you!" Knowing there's no such thing as court in that piece of land

[nealvance]

I am learning to never trust a Chinese Company.

[Luminousplayer]

If they counterfeit meaningless products, who would think they sell real gold?

[wheezysqueezebox]

Unscrupulous merchants... Very common in China!

[bluedrakken]

all those company are back by the ccp.

[anthonylockwood]

Pure gold does not corrode In fact it's pretty dang resilient.

[CanMav]

For the amount of gold sold in the PRC can people honestly not see that so much of it is fake? Dozens of gold shops in every major mall and along every major shopping street. The sheer quantity makes it impossible. Greedy, stupid people.

[justacopywriter]

"skin care with heavy metals...", only in China

[joerudnik]

Why do you think their gold shops closed down suddenly. Huge scam. Owners left town.

[ooGhstoo]

My mom still wears my grams gold wedding band with her own wedding ring every single day. It is like 80 years old and has never turned white or any other color. They lose their luster over time due to sweat, dirt, lotion, etc build up but it wipes away. Taking a torch to it to make it turn gold again makes me think that is a chemical reaction. Like the heat turns that chemical mixture gold.

[j-son]

Soil inside gold bracelets? Quite the dirty trick.