[Jewelry making - Article 00568] - Re: [Orchid] Can't Get a Stuller Account...

[Andrew Jeavons]

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    It's interesting to read the arguments raised in the debate about
    Stuller accounts. First I don't have one, as I am not a full
    "professional", I don't need one and probably won't even if I become
    a full time jewelry maker. Stuller have an absolute right to regulate
    their accounts for their own commercial reasons, but I don't think
    anyone is doing them any favours by casting them as the protectors of
    the "real" jewelry manufacturers as opposed to us "unserious, unreal,
    unpeople". Look up the concept of "restraint of trade", not something
    a company wants to indulge in. 

    My main business for over 20 years has been in computer software, the
    niche I am in is small but international, I've been involved in
    businesses in four continents. In the software industry the world
    and his dog is your competitor. No one cares very much if you have
    the right letters after your name, no one cares what you did before
    you wrote the software, or how long you trained, or where you trained
    or how you trained. The things that matter are: does your product do
    what it should do? Do you look after your customers? Are you honest?
    Are you of value? 

    Regarding the ability to have the "inside track" on prices of
    materials is just turning your product into a commodity by the
    emphasis on price, and when you start using price as the primary way
    you get business you are heading for big trouble, it doesn't matter
    if it is rings or software that you sell, the outcome is the same.
    Believe it or not it's accepted that writing truly great software is
    not an engineering challenge, but one of creativity and artistry. If
    you're a good artist you'll survive, if you want to sell on price you
    will have a hard time no matter how you protect your sources of
    materials, programmers or gold..... 

    Andrew in Sunny Cincinnati with a cat on the laptop... 

Andrew Jeavons
www.andrewjeavons.com
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