Moo-oom, Calli is taunting us with vacation!
I'll be off my six month probationary period at work at the end of July. I am so looking forward to being able to take vacation days! Yay!
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
SailAweigh - Jul 07, 2010 12:06:25 pm PDT #11072 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Vortex - Jul 07, 2010 12:12:19 pm PDT #11073 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Has anyone done any of those "cash for gold" things? I was looking for something in my jewelry box and came upon a tangle of broken chains and stuff I don't wear any more. I don't really wear yellow gold anymore (used to a lot), so I won't bother repairing.
Kathy A - Jul 07, 2010 12:15:18 pm PDT #11074 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My mom did, and she got quite a bit of cash for hers. I think she decided to go with a local jeweler instead of one of the online companies.
Nora Deirdre - Jul 07, 2010 12:15:27 pm PDT #11075 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I've gone to actual places that buy gold, never the mail in thing. You need to go in there with some knowledge about the karats, weight, and price of gold so you don't get lowballed. I was selling just straight up ounces of 24K gold so it was a lot easier to be all, hi, gimme t point to the paper where it said the price per ounce for gold
Dana - Jul 07, 2010 12:16:15 pm PDT #11076 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I think a local place is probably better than a mail-in. Consumerist has been pretty scornful about the ones that advertise.
Tom Scola - Jul 07, 2010 12:16:16 pm PDT #11077 of 30001
hwæt
Typo Boy - Jul 07, 2010 12:16:37 pm PDT #11078 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I'm always suspcious when I hear about them that they are paying ultra-low prices.
I wonder if a local place could assay them for you - tell you how much gold they have of what quality and then you could do research to find the real value, and what kind of discount you have to give cause of selling jewlery, not bricks.
Hil R. - Jul 07, 2010 12:17:15 pm PDT #11079 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've heard that a lot of the mail-in cash for gold places are scams.
Sue - Jul 07, 2010 12:18:10 pm PDT #11080 of 30001
hip deep in pie
People, stop sending the heat our way! We are not equipped. We have no pools or central air.
I just hope it cools down before the weekend. I am visiting my parents and they're place is already overheated.
Toddson - Jul 07, 2010 12:21:04 pm PDT #11081 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
A woman in my office took a bunch of things she had - jewelry her parents had bought her that she didn't like - and got a fair amount of money for it.
BUT ... I've heard about the scams and there was a thing on TV where they were checking out one of the parties (someone hosts, the company sends a rep who weighs the jewelry, assays it, and buys it) and they were giving something like 44% of its appraised value. They weren't clear as to whether the appraisers were giving the value of the gold or the value of the jewelry.
I have heard that if the jewelry is any good that you'd get more selling it as jewelry, rather than for the gold.