[Jewelry making - Article 01173] - Re: [Orchid] Quality of cutting

[Gerry]

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All,

    The point I would like to make is just one.  I see the retail
    jewelry industry in the USA as one which has skewed what quality in
    gemstones means and what are acceptable labor practices in
    manufacturing gemstones.  My point is that it is unacceptable by my
    personal standards to redefine quality of product and labor in
    manufacturing of gemstones just to further your own profit. I agree
    that this is the way the business has always been accomplished. It is
    now time for the business to change.  Not all at once, but one
    company at a time setting standards by which they will do business.
    Like, I will not do business with your company unless you start
    paying your child labor enough so that they can someday hope to free
    themselves of the bondage they have been sold into. I have already
    started with the stones I plan on buying in Asia. Treatment of
    laborers and the quality of the product produced are where I will
    start. I will also try to enact slow change by telling each and every
    company I deal with that I expect them to try to improve the working
    conditions and pay of thier work force. I hope to verify these
    changes by making it a point with the US Diplomats I hope to involve
    in the process. I will buy quality cut stones and poorly cut stones
    as there is a market for both.  I will never sell poorly cut stones
    as quality just to reap the extra profit.  It is not worth it for my
    soul. 

Gerry Galarneau
gggemswcr AT cox.net

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