What would happen to...

....... a ring like this? http://tinyurl.com/fonr

Remade perhaps or resold? Seems a shame to break it up but I've been
told remaking is the more common path.... what do you think?

Les


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On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 10:48:27 -0700, in rec.crafts.jewelry "Les & Claire"
wrote:

...... a ring like this? (masked ebay link snipped)

Remade perhaps or resold? Seems a shame to break it up but I've been
told remaking is the more common path.... what do you think?

Les

Well Les, are you happy now? I allowed this one.

Please, though, don't do this again. I'm not actually that stupid. The
question is perhaps valid, but it's also a very thinly veiled advertisment for
your ebay auction of the ring. I doubt this fools anyone. If you have a
question like this where you honesty wish to know the answer, it would be easy
to post a url for just the image, not the whole ebay ad. Nevertheless, perhaps
you really do wish to poll the readership on their opinions on what will happen
to this ring. So be it. On the generous assumption that this is indeed your
intent, I've allowed this post. But like I said, please don't make this a
habit. And please don't also assume that the readers of this group are a large
pool of folks eager to buy finished jewelry on ebay. Most of us make it, not
buy it on ebay.

To answer your question, Some buyers will get it just to buy the diamonds, if
the selling price is low enough that the ring is going for near or under the
wholesale value of the diamonds. Others, the retail buyers, might be just
buying a ring they like, and will wear. These latter are likely to pay more.

It suffers a little, in the "break it down for materials" catagory, in that it's
two tone, which makes it slightly harder to salvage the metal. One has to
seperate the colors and clean off the solder, etc. Can't just melt the thing
down as is.

Peter Rowe
moderator
rec.crafts.jewelry

Peter:
It is not even a thinly disguised question in an attempt to get people to
look at his auction.

He asked a different, not so thinly disguised question on the ebay ng, and
then spat venom when it was suggested that he stop.

"Peter W. Rowe" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 10:48:27 -0700, in rec.crafts.jewelry "Les & Claire"
wrote:

...... a ring like this? (masked ebay link snipped)

Remade perhaps or resold? Seems a shame to break it up but I've
been
told remaking is the more common path.... what do you think?

Les

Well Les, are you happy now? I allowed this one.

Please, though, don't do this again. I'm not actually that stupid. The
question is perhaps valid, but it's also a very thinly veiled advertisment
for
your ebay auction of the ring. I doubt this fools anyone. If you have a
question like this where you honesty wish to know the answer, it would be
easy
to post a url for just the image, not the whole ebay ad. Nevertheless,
perhaps
you really do wish to poll the readership on their opinions on what will
happen
to this ring. So be it. On the generous assumption that this is indeed
your
intent, I've allowed this post. But like I said, please don't make this
a
habit. And please don't also assume that the readers of this group are a
large
pool of folks eager to buy finished jewelry on ebay. Most of us make it,
not
buy it on ebay.

To answer your question, Some buyers will get it just to buy the
diamonds, if
the selling price is low enough that the ring is going for near or under
the
wholesale value of the diamonds. Others, the retail buyers, might be just
buying a ring they like, and will wear. These latter are likely to pay
more.

It suffers a little, in the "break it down for materials" catagory, in
that it's
two tone, which makes it slightly harder to salvage the metal. One has to
seperate the colors and clean off the solder, etc. Can't just melt the
thing
down as is.

Peter Rowe
moderator
rec.crafts.jewelry

Ah well. let me apologize for the tone of the posting I just sent. You got
me
in a bit of a "mood" here. I may have been a little out of line. Sorry
'bout
that. I went back and looked at your ebay ad, and noticed that not only is
it
almost over, but you've not yet reached your reserve bid. So maybe I was
hasty
in assuming you were trying to advertise.

I think you hit it right the first time. Thats at least the second time
that same poster has posted a link to the same ring.