[Jewelry making - Article 00018] - Re: [Orchid] Safe Advice

[Rodney Carroll]

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Hello All,

    I worked for a few years in the vault, safe and banking equipment
    business. First I want to say you get what you pay for. I have a
    safe that I bought used that is a big name in the banking industry.
    If your safe it not UL listed for a TL30 rating you would have been
    better off hiding you goods under the mattress. Once you have the
    safe it needs to blend in and not be seen. Mine looks like a tool
    storage cabinet in the garage. We have a decoy paperweight
    (Sentry)safe with a bag of pawnshop jewelry for the crooks to take
    thinking they made the big score. Just so you know, you can open one
    of those Wal-Mart safes with a tire tool. Most guys that have been
    around the safe business for a few years will tell you that an older
    TL15 takes about 5 mins to crack. So if you want to keep $60K of
    goods in your safe, so does a $300 safe sound like good insurance.
    My safe was less than a $1000 with tax and delivery. It is big
    enough to crawl in and close the door. 

    There is more to this than the safe. There is your security
    protocol. All catalogs and other related items should go to a PO
    Box. All you your deliveries should not have Big Giant Gems Inc. as
    the delivery address. Use BGG Inc for your items arriving from Rio.
    Don't tell everyone what you do. Do not meet with customers/clients
    at your home. Do not throw away catalogs or industry magazines in
    your garbage. Allot of you have day jobs or your spouse does, so
    throw them in the dumpster at work. Drop them in the trash at the
    Post Office after you remove the mailing labels. Think of as getting
    rid of the evidence. All business calls go to your cell phone and
    have that bill sent to your PO Box, you are paying for it. Do not
    put you address on your business card. Do not list you home address
    when you register you web site. Again use that PO Box. My PO Box is
    not even listed to my home address. It is listed to another property
    that is a seasonal use property owned by the family. I did live
    there when I opened the box a decade ago. I work mainly through
    galleries. That offer some extra security. Make sure they will not
    release any personal information about you. Our home phone is listed
    in my wife's maiden name so you can't even look for the phone
    number. I am very hard to find. 

    Then there is a home security system. I am no expert on that and
    will leave that for comment by a more knowledgeable person that I. 

    I use to work in the jewelry display and packaging. Our salesman
    would either have their homes broken into or their cars like once a
    year. The California rep got his car twice and his house once in one
    year. We even had a sign on the car that had the company name, the
    logo and the slogan. All they would get is empty jewelry boxes. Not
    even a piece of costume jewelry. No one said that criminals are very
    smart. If you just look like somebody that they think has something
    they will try to rob you. They even stole some frozen pizzas from
    one of the sales rep when they broke into his house. 

Later!
Rodney

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