Oh, you can sell it to a jeweler - I was one for 7 years, purchased them all the time. Did I pay retail for them NO WAY. I didn't even pay for them what I would pay for them from my cutter. Why, well lets say I need to show a client something sepcial, I would go to my safe and get out a selection to show them. If they purchased it I then turned around and paid my cutter for it. So why should I pay you hard cash for something I could pay for only if I sold it?
If I didn't have in stock what I needed I could make a phone call and have a selection over night - I remember once I did that looking for a large emerald - got 3 of them in (needed to have a selection - wholesale cost for each was around $90,000 - That was when the oil boom was big. Kept them for about a month and returned what I did sale. All it cost was postage one way. Now for the stones that were our bread and butter I paid for them before I sold them but the inventory truned over on those so fast sometimes they were sold before they were paid for. It's all supply and demand. On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Soren Harward wrote: > Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > As far as resale value goes diamonds have none. It may appraise at a > > certain value but you cannot sell it to a jeweler. Why? > > True. But you can sell it to another would-be customer. However, what > you'll get for it is a lot lower than what the jewelery would get for it. > > -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
