[Jewelry making - Article 00935] - Re: [Orchid] Jewelry Buyer's Guide

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    Dear Teresa, I totally agree. Sometimes my cynicism masks my
    meaning, I'll admit to that. I use the term sweat shop mostly to
    illustrate US snobbery and misunderstanding of how most of the world
    runs. I believe the tendency in the US is to discount how damn hard
    it is to "make it" here and I don't mean make it big, I mean buy
    groceries and house payment. I have been privileged to travel around
    the world and live in the 'third world' for a time. Boy, no quicker
    way to make a patriot for the US than to see how the most of the rest
    of the planet struggles. I live close enough to Mexico to drive down
    there and view life crushing poverty a few feet from the border. My
    main concern for a quality brochure is that it can't possibly
    address the concerns we have about so called schlock jewelry in sound
    bite style so that it would actually be of some use. I don't chase
    the mass market for that reason. I never understood the costume
    jewelry industry until recently either. There is room for all these
    parts of the market. I think to produce a brochure and think it will
    point out how good jewelry should be made will not increase my or
    yours sales. Unless we have mass marketing jewelry manufacturers
    reading Orchid nobody but us will appreciate such standards. And by
    nobody I mean a market share enough to make the production of such a
    brochure cost effective. AHA, another side of me, practical
    businessman that I have become. It all comes down to "what will it DO
    for ME"???? -that I don't already do for myself? 

Sam Patania, Tucson

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