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The wired thing about jewelry is that it’s only real value is mostly in the first sale. After that, it’s rare to get more than the value of its component parts.
by drivingmenuts 6y ago
The wired thing about jewelry is that it’s only real value is mostly in the first sale. After that, it’s rare to get more than the value of its component parts. Jewelers hit estate sales and pick up quite nice gold and silver diamond jewelry for dirt cheap so they can melt the metal into something else and will wind up with jars of small diamonds just sitting around because they’re too small to recut.
- gruez 6y ago>The wired thing about jewelry is that it’s only real value is mostly in the first sale. After that, it’s rare to get more than the value of its component parts. Is there a reason for this? Why can't you take a piece of used jewelry, clean it, and resell it? Do they go out of fashion?
- optimalsolver 6y agohttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/304575/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...