[Jewelry making - Article 00227] - Re: [Orchid] Converting pure gold into cash?

[Daniel Spirer]

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>     If anyone does send gold "scrap" of any kind in for refining, 
>     melt the entire batch in a crucible, mix it well while melted, pour
>     it all into an ingot mold, let it chill, then drill a couple of
>     "sample holes" out of the into in a couple of areas and keep these
>     samples in a marked envelope. 

    First of all I can absolutely back up the person who said Hoover and
    Strong is entirely trustworthy when it comes to refining and I, too,
    heartily recommend them for their services.  However the response to
    this (beginning quoted above) leads to a larger question in the
    industry.  Why would you use someone you don't trust to begin with? 
    I run into this with customers on and off who want me to set their
    diamonds, but want me to do it in front of them because they don't
    trust any jewelers.  I always tell them to find someone else who
    they feel they can trust to do it because if they don't trust me,
    then nothing I do for them is going to make them happy.  It's the
    same thing in the rest of this business, which incidentally has
    always been built up on the basis of trust.  If you don't trust your
    refiner to pay you out properly then don't use them and find someone
    you do. 

Daniel R. Spirer, G.G.
Daniel R. Spirer Jewelers, LLC
1780 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
617-2344392
www.spirerjewelers.com 

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