[Jewelry making - Article 00117] - [Orchid] Geller's pricing system

[YUKHAN]

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    hi I was working for a jeweler in a small town near a larger metro
    area. Last week he tells me that I have lost all my benefits and will
    be a  subcontractor or I can leave. His reason is he lost in the
    high five  figures last year. Well, I looked over the price system
    he uses and  how I would do on that system, and found that it wasn't
    so bad, in  fact I figure after taxes I will make almost twice that
    I was  making before. So the first day I did some jobs and priced
    them according  to the book and indeed I made almost twice that of
    my salary. But here is  the hook. when I got to work this morning I
    was greeted with a note telling me I  had to price all the jobs
    before I started on them and get an OK. Now correct me  if I'm wrong
    but isn't his job to price them out at the counter? And if not how 
    can it be fair that I have to do it? Also how do you price custom
    work or casting. There isn't any guideline for  those areas. 

Robert L.  Martin
Goldsmith/Diamond Setter
since 1976
<>< john  3:16
yukhan AT aol.com


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