PM buyers of jewelry with gems
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I heard a local major shop say that unless the gem is over a carat, no jeweler would be interested in paying for it.....They used to separate the gems and return them to the customer. How do most shops deal with gems embedded in jewelry?
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hammer them into a powder
all jewelry should be smashed with a hammer . If you sell to a refiner always damage the crap first.
If they are going to melt it lets make sure they do , we don't need them thinking they can flip it and double up.
I can't stress enough how stupid and useless jewelry is.
I just called my LCS and asked them about this. Read the exact words from OP. Said this is true 100%. He said they still check them out, and there is sometimes something of value, but usually no. Said they have bags of them.
Hope this helps!
Stones are like coins and bars..
Most are exceedingly common and boring, relatively few are extremely rare and desirable, there are more of the former being produced every day, along with counterfeit, replicas, and "fantasy tributes" to the latter.
I'm all done buying anything newer than myself, and I'm in my 50s
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That’s only partially true. I spoke to a GIA certified gemologist not too long ago and she said that most jewelers would pay for say a .5 carat diamond in a ring and resell it as such but say a coin shop that deals in scrap gold won’t as they don’t have the resources to do so to they don’t want to get into the business.
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sure they will , but they will charge you 4000 for a ring of metal with $120 worth of gold in it.
Markups on gems and jewelry are positively criminal so they can afford to be generous .
Rarely do I go out of my way to buy the stones themselves unless .25 ct or larger. Typically Ill just up my scrap rate that Im paying for the gold just to put something towards the diamonds.
Yes, we have bags of diamonds. I think there is around 400 carats on my desk back at the office.
i seem to remember Provident trying to peddle diamonds about 5 years ago , on some sort of enclosed card
The urge seems to have passed I don't see any on the site now
It was a neat idea.
https://www.providentmetals.com/diamond-melee-certicard-5-10-point.html
provident is funny about stuff. They move a lot of product but they do not attempt to keep inventory the way APMEX does . I think they try new things and if it doesn't go the way they think they drop it.
A lot of those 'gems' get reused in jewelry. A few years ago, I was looking for a gift, and stopped in a local shop. I saw an interesting piece and asked to view it. Pulled out my loupe and checked the stones.... could clearly see they were from an older, worn ring or other jewelry... wear on the stone facets was obvious. Jeweler denied it... I left, never went back. Cheers, RickO
I'm guessing you don't have a wife.
Well I'm not a coin dealer so I haven't had 6 of them anyway.
Yes women love jewelry. I was at an open air flea market a while back and a school bus full of young girls unloaded the school students. It was unreal how they all made a beeline for the vendors with jewelry.
I'd love to find a thick platinum cuban link men's necklace and bracelet as close to spot as possible.
You don't understand the power of the P.
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