[Jewelry making - Article 00921] - Re: [Orchid] Jewelry Buyer's Guide

[T A Masters]

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    Sam, I know you to be of high integrity, ability and talent.
    Certainly your clients are with you for those very reasons. How you
    extend yourself to meet their needs is part of your business sense.
    The happening that may cost you at this time, in the future may have
    a wedding in the family or 50th anniversary and they will be at your
    shop post haste. 

    The brochure is an educational tool for hopefully future business. I
    see young Marines either alone or with an equally young wife or
    girlfriend staring hopefully in the mall showcases about to pay too
    much for absurdly tiny fragile piece of jewelry. They walk away
    smiling and happy with their investment. Oh to be able to speak with
    them first, yes maybe give them a brochure so they can make an
    informed purchase. 

    Yes we can ask questions, but what? are the conditions humane? can
    you strike for toilet time? are you strip searched? have you pouches
    cut into your cheeks to secret gems? is this money buying guns?
    drugs? If we then have knowledge, what do we do with it? 

    How often do we get a days work for a days pay? what do we lose to
    pilfering? is the money going to keep the boss' mistress? drinks? 

    Honesty and integrity is not only property of the USA. We cannot
    control labor costs in other locations as it is only a portion of
    the overall economy. Were prices of staples to increase, labor would
    also. Even here in the USA we have very different costs across the
    states and regions. From a sleepy region when I bought here 11 years
    ago, now i could not even rent, our costs have escalated so
    teachers, police, fire, can no longer afford to live here. 

    I am happy I am old enough to know when a fine piece of jewelry felt
    solid and had a bit of weight, now it is hollow and fragile and
    costs too much. That is just how I feel and many can and will
    disagree. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder if they had an even
    chance to know what they are beholding. That is our job. Not to
    malign the foreign worker, but to  educate our buyers. It is the
    very people who do not yet know the value of your work Sam that
    deserve to. 

    IMHO Teresa  -

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