From the Star Tribune http://www.startribune.com/local/178478111.html?refer=y:

On Monday, Swanson's office referred a complaint about Guardian Gold & Silver Exchange in Plymouth to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. Her move came the week after Guardian owner Ray Hanisco filed for personal bankruptcy amid a flurry of consumer and securities fraud allegations.

Hanisco, 62, of Eden Prairie, is a longtime coin salesman who started Guardian in 2009 with Schaun Waste, 47, of Osseo, after the two men quit Twin Cities Gold & Silver Exchange.

Edwina Hibel, 78, a retired attorney from Patterson, N.J., said she sent Guardian a $162,000 check in the spring of 2011 to buy gold bars and silver coins, which the company was to hold for her.

"The gold that they have been quote-unquote holding for me is 100 ounces," Hibel said. "The bars were going to be $1,300 apiece, which was more than reasonable at that time. ... I don't think they have them."

She said the company also owes her some valuable coins from another purchase. Hibel said Guardian has stopped communicating with her.

Hanisco's bankruptcy petition, filed Oct. 30, lists a debt of $237,000 to Hibel. He claims to be Guardian's sole owner as of last month and seeks to liquidate more than $1.7 million in debts, much of it related to the coin company. Several court judgments and a claim in a pending lawsuit could push the figure over $2 million.

Eleanor Dubey, 82, of Tacoma, Wash., said Hanisco owes her more than the nearly $275,000 listed in the bankruptcy petition. She said she sent him coins to be converted into bars, which are easier to store, but got nothing in return.

Neither Hanisco nor Waste responded to messages seeking comment. Hanisco's bankruptcy attorney, Chad Bolinske, declined to comment.

A complaint that Swanson's office referred to regulators involves a Guardian offshoot called Wealth Preservation Society. That entity originally listed Hanisco's residence as its address, but now it is listed as a creditor in his bankruptcy "in care of" William Lucas of Minneapolis. Lucas declined to comment.

Dr. Joan Balcombe, 59, of Ogden, Utah, said she invested $306,000 in Wealth Preservation Society in February. She said she'd been buying coins through Hanisco for 20 years and trusted him when he approached her about a process that would extract valuable metal ore from old mine tailings, then convert it into bars for sale at a profit in Bahrain. She said he sent her a contract promising to repay her the principal plus 25 percent within 160 days.
"If somebody had called me out of the blue I'd say, 'You've got to be kidding,'" Balcombe said.
When she last spoke with Hanisco in late August, he told her things were going fine. She said she hasn't heard from him since.

"I'm not a wealthy person," Balcombe said when she learned of Hanisco's bankruptcy. "This is devastating to me."

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if you want to fnd out more about this fraudulant company, Guardian Gold and Silver Exchange and owner Shawn Waste, go to the Better Business Company link:

http://www.bbb.org/minnesota/business-reviews ... uth-mn-96298081

BUYER BEWARE!!!

picked up, and no answer. Has any one or this Website ever found out who they are?

So I googled this company, got the email address and wrote them that they were violating the Do Not Call list by calling me.  A guy named Schaun K Waste, Vice President / Chief Operations Officer of the Wealth Preservation Society wote this back"
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"We use a service that is contractually obligated to sort using local and federal ' do not call'.  If this happened as you said, then that is a direct violation of an agreement we have with the 'predictive dialer' service we use.  I have forwarded this to the service and you will NOT receive another call from us."
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But then he wanted my phone number and name so he could make "direct inquiries."  I refused, of course, and directed him to this forum page.  His response was:
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"As we contracted with a predictive dialer firm, you can understand that without any help from you identifying your particular phone number, it is impossible to track the problem.  I have viewed the 800notes.com and will take immediate action regarding this, however when someone launches contemptuous allegations anonymously, you leave us with little to work with regarding your personal experience.  You appear to have a LOT of knowledge in this?"
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I wrote back "no dice" on the name and phone number, but that I would post his responses on 800notes.com and again on the FTC Do Not Call complaint page.  He just wrote back:
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"You do whatever you wish.  We have addressed this and are cancelled this campaign with our calling firm .  Just as I said, we WILL address this immediately?and we have.

Good day"
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Hmmm.  Did this actually work?  Be interesting to see of there are any later postings here from people receiving subsequent calls.

Perhaps you can call and impress him with your Hollow Point investments?

Exactly same for me:  blind call and phone message left by "Michael" about my "portfolio."  When you google the number you get

Guardian Gold and Silver Exchange
9909 South Shore Drive Suite 174
Plymouth, MN 55441

On "do not call" as well, yet Michael from Investments left a message that he wants to talk to me about my portfolio. I assume not my Smith & Wesson portfolio.

My number also on do not call list... got a call this morning, when I picked it up, nobody there but I could hear noise in the background, so I think somebody hung up when I answered.

Someone named Michael called about my "investments."  It was a live message and he wanted me to return his call.  Very, very suspicious and certainly a violation of "do not call."