Almost Free Gold!: How to Earn a Quick $1000 Finding Gold, Silver and Platinum Where You Live (Almost Free Money)

We take a look at the different ways to buy physical gold and some important things we should know before purchasing it through each of different routes. This book gives me many reason and facts to consider for buying and selling gold. My favorite chapters were: * Identifying precious metals with maker’s marks * Silver hallmarks and silver makers’ marks * Notes on silver-plate and gold plated items * Testing gold and precious metals with test kits and other tools * Precious metals for cheap! * Tips for buying items of value to hosts * Where to find free gold and free silver! * How to sell your gold and silver for maximum profit * Some very helpful websites and web pages to jump start your research. I believe that the book delivers on its promises because I have not found so many information that I've liked, inside a single book. It is a nice book that you cannot afford to miss! I'd recommend that you buy this one for its quality information and value for money.

I have been picking at yard sales and thrift stores for years and have used several of the other books in this series with success, including Almost Free Money. I learned a lot that I didn't know from Almost Free Gold. For me, the most valuable portions of the book were the methods for finding hidden gold and sterling at yard sales. I've got lots of new places to look and now I know how to find the stuff that other pickers have missed! I am also planning on taking the author's advice and contacting some of the businesses mentioned for setting up consistent sources of precious metals. Plus, you have to check out the chapter on the metal that is more valuable than gold! Fascinating stuff and the basis for a new hobby / business / addiction combination!

The book was in great shape. Ther are a lot of good tips that are helpful.

Amazing! Everything you ever need to know about gold and silver mining at garage sales, estate sales, thrift shops and the like. Eric Michael, generously, shares his hard earned (14 years of) experience, including where to look, how to look, and how to identify and estimate the worth of precious metal pieces discovered while pawing through dusty shelves and old boxes and bags of items. You will learn what tools to carry in your gold-mining kit, where to buy them and how much you will likely pay. Not the least among them is a bottle of hand-sanitizer. Eric tells this is such a humorous way that you are entertained, as well as informed, and soon feel you can call the author by his first name, as you see I have done so, here. I probably will not take up this endeavor, but as Eric points out, it is a cheaper Saturday morning hobby than golf. Oh the contrary, I am thinking of buying six copies of this book for my six grandchildren. Perhaps they can use the information to help finance their own college educations, as Eric claims to be doing for his children.

Nothing new. Could probably get same info on the net for free

This is a great book for getting me started in scrapping of all kinds and at Kindle rates it's worth the buy. Now that we are in the Post Covid Era I would like to ask Eric Michael to come out with a revised edition of all his books, of which I will purchase. So let's all of us who are reading his books and following their information best as we can, to update your work. Thanks for giving me a new direction Eric.

Truly written by a professional, this book, I imagine, has everything for everyone when it comes to making money off of gold. It's more than I bargained for, pun intended, because it includes this kind of information on metals, platinum, and more. There's information about the history of looking for gold and how that has influenced recent processes and transactions. It's informative about how auctions work, how to determine what your gold is worth, and how to make smart selling decisions with the latest calculations the market is using. There's a lot about gold kits--to finding gold and add to your collection.

I really like this author’s writing style. I believe if you read and implemented all that he has written in this and his other books, you could be self employed and making a very nice living. As for me, this type of stuff makes a nice supplement. Almost Free Gold! [Revised December 2014]: How to Earn a Quick $1000 Finding Gold, Silver and Precious Metal in Thrift Stores and Garage Sales Where You Live (Almost Free Money Book 5) by Eric Michael is not only valuable, it is also a fun read. Highly recommended. Five stars.

About the first 10% of this book concentrates on how to successfully identify the best items. This is more than the lip service that some of these books seem to pay to that side of things so I have no complaints there and picked up some valuable extra tips. I liked the details on the pros and cons of each of the authors given 'where to find' methods as not each method is suitable for everyone and this does help one to decide which is best for the individual reader. There are not as many external links as in some books but these, on occasion, can be rather distracting and the content is sound without them.

Worth a read even if you are not going to do it. This kind of information is worth far more than this title costs.

Very good book