@Steve B.I remember in the early 2000's there was an article on the back of Forbes magazine how gold was a terrible place  to put your money and over the last 100 + years it had performed way below inflation. 

There's be no Fed, and we'd still be on the gold standard, you'd shop for your own health care and it would be competitive, and tuition would costs would be within reach; on and on where the free market has been manipulated because "we" demanded it and then we blame capitalism when it doesn't work out the way "we" wished it did. 

Everybody thought MC Hammer had plenty of cash until they saw him on TV hawking "Cash for Gold" on late-night infomercials ;) .

Someone garbage is another persons gold.

His message aint pretty but it is quite compelling.Then please explain to me how gold works in this scenario.....you have gold,.. then crisis,..crisis ends,..time to sell gold,.. everyone else in the world is selling gold cause the crisis is over,.. price of gold drops because no one needs it anymore. 

Nordstrom's no-questions-asked return policy meant they clawed back sales commissions when customers returned the gold jewelry they bought during the bubble.

Our buyer's list is gold to us.

But the reality the area is a gold mine. 

If you found the right person it can be a gold mine.

The cities are too small, and the sellers in the hot zip codes think their houses are sitting on gold.