[Jewelry making - Article 00007] - Re: [Orchid] Where to send platinum and gold

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>     you really need to back off calling people thieves when no one
>     knows the full story. There are a lot of times when businesses
>     don't really know what they are doing and the pitch stuff in
>     dumpsters that has value. 

    Short of written permission from someone with the authority to
    decide how to dispose of company property, or a published company
    policy permitting it, if you take it home with you with the intent to
    keep it, it's theft. The key words there are "someone with
    authority". It may be easier for the guy in charge to just pitch it
    as you say but unless that guy owns it or has been officially given
    the authority to dispose of it as he sees fit, it's theft. 

>     Years ago, Platinum was not all that expensive and neither was
>     gold. Gold used to be $45 an oz. 

    That's right, and I remember when it was $32 an ounce. At that time
    my new wife and I rented our first apartment for $35 a month. It's
    all relative, but it doesn't make any difference what the value of
    the item is, If you haven't gotten it legally from someone who owns
    it or has the authority to dispose of it, you stole it. I believe the
    Spanish government still claims ownership of galleons which have
    laid on the ocean floor for centuries. 

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