[Jewelry making - Article 00794] - Re: [Orchid] Friendship Dilemma

[Gerry]

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All,

    There is a big difference between buying or getting a memo on a
    small parcel of finished stones and the trust that is involved in the
    rough stone business.  When buying rough stones a great deal of trust
    is put in the person you are buying rough from.  In the case I am
    writing about the gem trail is from Phoenix, Arizona to Chihauhua,
    Mexico. In that short distance the story concerning the grading of
    the material, the person mininng the material, the hardship the
    dealer had to endure to get the material all turned out to be lies.
    He laughed at me and said that the rough stone business is always
    this way.  I told him not with me, paid him the money, and told him
    to not bother stopping my way again. Can you imagine the lies that
    accompany stones coming from lands farther away. 

    In this case I found the man who set up the deal with the Mexican
    supplier.  He was upset also in that the dealer never greased his
    palm for setting up the deal.  This man was so upset he readily gave
    me the details of the whole transaction.  Coupled with this I found
    out from another dealer he had stopped at his house and high graded
    the rough before he sold it to me. 

    I took this rough stone dealers word as gold because he was my
    friend.  He told me this was cutting rough.  I looked at it and told
    him that it did not look good, but I would take his word for the
    quality.  When I cut it I found out it was junk. Then I started
    searching the trail and found the lies. 

    In the last issue of "Colored Stone" the editor commented on the
    difference between telling the truth on high valued items versus low
    dollar items. What I have given you is only one example on why there
    should be no double standard.  There is no murky area. Lies start at
    the mine and are embelished and added to every step of the gem trail.
     It does not matter what the material is that we are talking about. 
    From the highest dollar rarest of all gemstones to a piece of
    howelite.  Lies accompanmy all the stones.  For all I know now these
    Mexican Agates could come from another location totally as I did not
    see them come out of the ground and I can not trust the supply line. 
    How can anyone else trust thier suppliers?  If all we are doing is
    disclosing what we are told about the stones, then are we not
    ourselves telling lies?  What is the answer? 

Gerry Galarneau

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