| When you work at making jewelry, there is | | | | merchant such as this, don't despair! There is still |
| always precious metal scrap, so what is the best | | | | as way to make a MUCH better deal that you |
| way to be green with our scrap? And at the | | | | would by going with any of the places I told you |
| same time, how do we maximize our profits? | | | | about in the second paragraph. This place is a |
| This is a very good question! There are so many | | | | precious metals refinery. That is all they do! |
| ads on the TV, the radio and the newspapers all | | | | So, of course, they would want your scrap. And, |
| asking for your scrap metal. Well, I would caution | | | | the neatest feature of all, is their website, it has a |
| you about going to any of those places. NONE of | | | | way to determine how much money your scrap |
| them will pay you anywhere near what you | | | | is worth, once you have measured it. Now, this |
| should receive for the precious metals you are | | | | will only be an approximation, because you will |
| turning in for scrap. In fact, most of them will be | | | | probably be using a kitchen scale such as I do. |
| either reselling your jewelry at a tidy profit, or | | | | And make sure you measure in grams, because |
| they are going to sell it to either of these places | | | | otherwise, the ounces jewelers mean when they |
| that I am going to tell you about. They just don't | | | | say ounce is a troy ounce which is actually 1.097 |
| want you to know that. | | | | ounces. |
| First off, if you have a wholesaler's license, and | | | | You will need to have a minimum amount of |
| have an active account with merchants who do | | | | scrap in order to send off to the refiner, it has to |
| sell gold, silver and gold filled metal, wire and | | | | be worth their while to re-refine new metal out of |
| findings, then they usually have a way for their | | | | scrap, but this calculator will tell you if you don't |
| customers to send them their scrap for either a | | | | have enough, so you can go back and keep |
| credit for future metal buys, or will give you a | | | | saving. But once you see how much this refiner |
| check, which will usually be for less than the credit | | | | gives you, you will NEVER consider going |
| you would receive if you took the credit. | | | | anywhere else again. Believe me - I won't! |
| If you don't have an active account with a | | | | |