Andrew Werby wrote:
"ME" wrote in message
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On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:21:57 +0000, John wrote:
You gotta be kidding right? You want us to help you to make our
lives
harder? It sounds to me like "her current goldsmith" is just about to
lose
some work. With the way you're talking about jewellery, you're way out of
your league already.


John
the current goldsmith will be keeping her existing work, I am seeking
to develop "new pieces" which will fall under my own label which will
be marketed alongside the existing collection.

[Forgive me if I'm wrong here, but it sounds like you're intending to copy
the "look and feel" of the line your current goldsmith has done for you,
patent it under your own name, take the production offshore, and keep all
the money for yourself. While this may be (barely) legal, it is not the sort
of thing that's calculated to draw a warm response from the goldsmiths that
usually gather here...]

If you are not
interested in giving quotes thats fine. I can take my business
elsewhere to people eager to sell there services and make new clients
who will buy the finest materials available.

[You haven't been asking for quotes, or sharing much about what you're
actually trying to make. You've mostly talked about getting the lowest
prices in the world, and asking us to share our hard-earned knowledge and
sources of goods, while staying anonymous. I'm afraid you come off more
like a ruthless competitor than a source of business for most of the
jewelers here. Fortunately, you also seem pretty clueless about the basics
of jewelry making, so you're probably just going to lose a bundle of money,
as Abrasha kindly warned you.]

From the replies i am
receiving so far i am suprised people like yourself and the previous
hostile reply manage to forge relationships let alone forge gold. You
people need a lesson in business communication skills and learn to
respect potential business clients even when they may ask questions
that show no prior knowledge of jewelery. For all you know i could have
a global network of stores and you just turned away a million dollar
business deal. Your loss, not mine. Out of my league?.....Do you think
you are helping your own business by telling newcomers they are out of
their league.? You only make yourself sound arrogant and obnoxious. If
you were in any kind of league yourself you would show better business
etiquet rather than your walmart customer service skills. Since you
have no idea how much budget i have to spend you have no way of knowing
if it is yourself who is way out of my league. If i owned a store i
would not employ someone with your attitude to clean the toilets let
alone serve potential clients with your walmart customer service
skills. You are your own worst enemy with your hostile unprovoked
attitude. Perhaps you make nice jewelry but your people and business
skills stink.

[Well, to keep this thread from degenerating further, maybe we can let you
have the last word on all that. When you asked a specific question, about
the suitability of 24k gold as a substitute for other alloys, you got an
accurate answer. But answers to general questions, like how to buy diamonds
at wholesale in the world market, are outside the realm of things you can
reasonably expect from a forum like this. This is something that takes a lot
of experience and study to learn, as well as considerable capital (and
nerve) to actually do. I doubt that many of us here are at that level;
perhaps the poster above meant to say it was out of OUR league...]

Andrew Werby
www.computersculpture.com



Excellent post. I could not have said it better myself. With my level
of tact, not a snowball's chance in Hell.

--
Abrasha
http://www.abrasha.com