[Jewelry making - Article 01187] - Re: [Orchid] Handling Repairs During Christmas Season

[diamondeddy2]

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    Mr Geller is right about the repair subject at Christmas. Between
    now and end of Feb, I will do several hundred dollars a week of
    simple watch band adjustments on Christmas watches. In addition this
    is my best season for new watchband sales, as many people do not like
    the band that comes on their new Christmas watches. I will stock
    around 1000 pieces in Speidel metal and leather combined, and will
    restock nearly as heavy again aprox March. As for custom, I am
    finishing up my last 2 wax jobs tonight, to send for casting on
    Monday. That leaves me from now to Christmas to finish and set all
    the castings done during the last 6 weeks. I will still take in
    simple remount jobs until about a week from Christmas, since Stuller
    usually has the mountings to me in a day or 2 at most. 

    Ring sizing will go full blast from now till February, and most will
    be happy with my normal turnaround of 2 weeks, but many are happy to
    pay 'express' price for varing amounts of speedier service. 

    My store is mostly a repair store, but during this season, my
    inventory moves quite well as people make impulse purchases. And as
    people develope trust with us from their repairs throughout the year,
    they often switch from their old fav jeweler and shop us 1st at
    Christmas time. 

Ed in Kokomo


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