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The right stuff can be worth more than the stone and metal components when hitting the secondary market. Pieces by Tiffany, Van Cleef Arpels, Harry Winston, etc... can fetch prices above the original retail. Emphasis here on CAN fetch prices above original retail.
Most stuff bought at the local store will never appreciate beyond the value of the particular stone’s quality and size as well as the metal involved such as gold, silver, platinum, etc... As such, I am referring to scrap value, which is where the bid on most jewelry at auction quickly goes.
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Did I hurt your feelings? I'm sorry. Lol... But whether you like them or not, it doesn't change the value...
The free market. If you over pay for it, like any other commodity, it's a bad investment...
It becomes a store-of-value when you can buy it for less than retail...if you are buying jewelry at retail price, it's a crappy investment.
I was asking where you had sold jewelry at a gain.
Completely serious question.
I guess I should have asked where you got it first - not buying retail? Maybe find stuff at an estate auction and then go to the Pawn Shop?
Oh. I was talking in general. Personally I've never bought much. Bought as nice stone for my wife's engagement ring from a broker and had it set. Have only had it appraised but it's worth significantly more than I paid for it. And I suppose If you wanted to and new what you were looking for and did your homework, that you could buy stuff at pawn shops and estate sales and make some decent money...
The question is where do you BUY jewelry to get a good return. The answer is used second hand stores. You buy a good high end watch for 6-7k and you will never lose money on it. I paid 5200 for a used Rolex about 5 years ago and I could sell it today for $7500
I hear you, brother, but there is another group out there that lives differently than most: not difficult to drop $1MM+ furnishing a large home. Furniture is often overpriced, and the high-end stuff is grotesquely expensive.
I have the most comfortable recliner I’ve ever sat it. Got it for $50 off Craigslist. And I didn’t even get robbed.
Possibly.....but it ain’t like I held a gun to their head. They advertised it at that price.
I was referring to the person they stole it from.
Yet somehow you know that all the furniture on Craigslist is stolen. Does that mean you are a seller but not a buyer? Or do your airtight conclusions come from another source?
Did you get the vapors, or just clutch your pearls?
The stuff people get offended by is beyond me. Are people actually getting triggered by a joke about Craigslist? In the LR? Smh
The funny thing is that others were offended for you.
The funny thing is that others were offended for you.
Yeah I got no issue with CL.
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Last weekend, the wife and I did some window shopping for furniture for the new place. It's been nearly 20 years since we did furniture shopping probably, and just wanted to get an idea what we were looking at.
As I'm wont to do, we were getting a little silly in the place, and I was moving stuff around and doing things to make her laugh, and we eventually ended up with a salesman trailing us along. Afterward my wife said she was surprised I didn't kicked out for acting like a child, and I said it was because the guy doesn't know if after all my antics, I'm going to whip out a credit card and drop $10k.
Years ago I worked at a Best Buy type place (now defunct) and it happened fairly regularly. We had an system, where salesmen had an established order and "next man up" had to take the next customer walking through the door. Some absolute dirtbag would come in to look at big screen TVs and stuff, and salesmen would be hiding in refrigerators to avoid spending 45 minutes with a guy that didn't look like he could afford lunch. But every once in a while, that guy would drop $5-6k and pay with cash. Usually because they'd gotten some motorcycle accident settlement, or they were a drug dealer.
Happened to me my very last day of work there...some homeless looking guy walked in...everyone told me to take him since it was my last day anyway...and he literally walked through saying "I'll take that, and one of those...and throw in one of those...should I get one of those too? What the heck, give me two...". The other guys were not too thrilled with me pulling like a $350 commission on my last sale ever.
I was pretty terrible at that job, and hated it, but it was one of the craziest places I ever worked. I worked there for like eight months, and definitely saw enough wackiness to write a movie about for sure.
As I'm wont to do, we were getting a little silly in the place, and I was moving stuff around and doing things to make her laugh, and we eventually ended up with a salesman trailing us along. Afterward my wife said she was surprised I didn't kicked out for acting like a child, and I said it was because the guy doesn't know if after all my antics, I'm going to whip out a credit card and drop $10k.
Years ago I worked at a Best Buy type place (now defunct) and it happened fairly regularly. We had an system, where salesmen had an established order and "next man up" had to take the next customer walking through the door. Some absolute dirtbag would come in to look at big screen TVs and stuff, and salesmen would be hiding in refrigerators to avoid spending 45 minutes with a guy that didn't look like he could afford lunch. But every once in a while, that guy would drop $5-6k and pay with cash. Usually because they'd gotten some motorcycle accident settlement, or they were a drug dealer.
Happened to me my very last day of work there...some homeless looking guy walked in...everyone told me to take him since it was my last day anyway...and he literally walked through saying "I'll take that, and one of those...and throw in one of those...should I get one of those too? What the heck, give me two...". The other guys were not too thrilled with me pulling like a $350 commission on my last sale ever.
I was pretty terrible at that job, and hated it, but it was one of the craziest places I ever worked. I worked there for like eight months, and definitely saw enough wackiness to write a movie about for sure.
Funny, this subject just came up based on a movie reference during a discussion with our neighbors. My wife had no clue what we were talking about. Key parties? Nope, no idea.
"People do that?" she asks.
"Oh dear, there is such a big world out there, really just one neighborhood over if I had to guess."
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