If “South Park” is to be believed — and I almost always believe anything that comes from the mind of Trey Parker and Matt Stone — HSN and Cash4Gold are just an endless cycle of crap jewelry being marketed towards old people. Here's how:
After Stan recieves a bolero tie that his grandfather paid $6,000 for on HSN, he goes on a mission to figure out what the hell is actually going on. First, be blames HSN completely and calls in to let one of the sellers know how he feels:
He eventually travels to India, where most of the jewelry is made, and discovers that, actually, no one's to blame because it's all just a vicious cycle: