[Jewelry making - Article 00029] - Re: [Orchid] Where to send platinum and gold

[Daniel Spirer]

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>     you really need to back off calling people thieves when no one
>     knows the full story. 

    You're right no one knows the full story but I've been approached by
    people with similar situations and they were skimming metals from
    jobs they were working on. That's stealing. It is highly unlikely
    that they would acquire 1 lb of platinum except through an illegal,
    or at least ethically challenged, method. However all of this is
    MOOT. Any legitimate refiner will not take their metal unless they
    are a real company with legitimate reasons for generating scrap
    metal. This federal law came into being as a result of the
    antiterrorism legislation that has been enacted. The government
    doesn't want people effectively washing their money through refiners
    in the event that they are terrorists (actually I think it's more a
    tax thing personally, but that's just my opinion). Don't believe me?
    Call a refiner and tell them you're just an individual with a bunch
    of scrap metal and see what they say. 

Daniel R. Spirer, G.G.
Daniel R. Spirer Jewelers, LLC
1780 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
617-234-4392
www.spirerjewelers.com
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