[Jewelry making - Article 00909] - Re: [Orchid] Setting customer stones

[John Donivan]

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>     It is up to every jeweler to decide whether he wants to be a
>     butcher or a surgeon. 

    Somebody wrote recently that they knew a setter of some years who
    never finished his work, and I replied, "That's not a setter" And
    the original poster of this thread said today that he had cut a deal
    for the job that was mutually satisfactory. It's when people pretend
    that the customer has to pay "insurance" for your own hands that I
    start to chuckle, I'm afraid. Anyway.... Blue Nile: I routinely pull
    up Blue Nile during a diamond sale to show how much less I am
    charging. Generally I don't "pre-look", I just do it because I know
    I can beat them always. Blue Nile is not a diamond dealer, they are
    diamond brokers. I know this because I know some of their suppliers.
    Mostly they don't even hold stones, they get pics and stats and list
    them, and then call for the stones as they sell. I also know that as
    far as my people are concerned, Blue Nile gets the same price as I
    do - easy enough. 

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