[Jewelry making - Article 00963] - Re: [Orchid] Is rhodium plating a common practice?

[Daniel R. Spirer]

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    Rhodium plating of white gold jewelry (but not platinum) is a common
    trade practice.  It sounds, however, like you are buying what you
    sell from various manufacturers and it is not uncommon for some of
    them to simply plate yellow gold and call it white gold
    (unfortunately for the trade as it is both unethical and illegal to
    do this).  I don't know of any literature to substantiate that
    plating is a common trade practice. There are many people out there
    who feel plating should not be done at all.  However your biggest
    problem is that you aren't informing the customers upon their
    purchase of the pieces that the piece is plated and may need to be
    replated at some point in the future.  If you had properly educated
    the customer to begin with this would not be coming back to bite  you
    in the foot now. 

Daniel R. Spirer, GG
Spirer Somes Jewelers
1794 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140
617-491-6000
spirersomes AT earthlink.net
www.spirersomes.com


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