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Anyone know where I can buy good quality cabs at reasonable prices?

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:58:54 GMT, "John Smith"
wrote:

Anyone know where I can buy good quality cabs at reasonable prices?



You can always go to Fire Mountain Gems and Beads. Theyu have a fair
selection of cabs.

Blessed be, for sure...

"John Smith" wrote in message
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Anyone know where I can buy good quality cabs at reasonable prices?



Erm...

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Time for tea

John Smith wrote:
Anyone know where I can buy good quality cabs at reasonable prices?




Dunno what you'd call 'good quality', but I get a lot of stuff from
Pioneer Gem (www.pioneergem.com) and Black Star Trading
(www.blackstartrading.com)

Pioneer has a regular catalog and usually runs specials on cabs in bulk.
Black Star has (or used to have) a lot of off-size cabs they had
gotten from jewelry manufacturers that they sold at very good prices.
Since I make my own settings, I like deals like that a lot.

--RC

vj found this in rec.crafts.jewelry, from "John Smith"
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]Anyone know where I can buy good quality cabs at reasonable prices?

depends on what you consider reasonable.
where are you?

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Browsed Pioneergem's site. I randomly picked several cabs to check
prices and was surprised to see that these are 20%-50% higher than the
prices in professional stores in Israel (Tel-Aviv). Pros get additional
10-40% discount.
Do Pioneer's prices represent the average USA prices? I know it is
almost impossible to compare gemstones prices, but they don't claim to
offer "best quality" and the gems I buy locally are high quality.
Pity that the pro stores in Tel-Aviv don't have web sites....
Sarit.
http://wwww.sarit-jewelry.com

Rick Cook wrote:
John Smith wrote:
Anyone know where I can buy good quality cabs at reasonable prices?




Dunno what you'd call 'good quality', but I get a lot of stuff from
Pioneer Gem (www.pioneergem.com) and Black Star Trading
(www.blackstartrading.com)

Pioneer has a regular catalog and usually runs specials on cabs in
bulk.
Black Star has (or used to have) a lot of off-size cabs they had
gotten from jewelry manufacturers that they sold at very good prices.

Since I make my own settings, I like deals like that a lot.

--RC

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:08:40 -0700, in Ìõ "Sarit Wolfus"
wrote:

Do Pioneer's prices represent the average USA prices?

Can't specifically comment on the actual question, but keep in mind that many cab
materials are African or from other sources than the USA, that many of the cabs we buy
are cut in the far east or otherwise also out of the U.S.A. Add these factors to the
current low rate of the dollar relative to other world currencies, and perhaps that is
all that's needed to account for the price differences in the U.S... ? Imported stuff
other than from China (which artificially tracks it's currency to the dollar) is rather
more pricey here, right now. The price of gold is one good example. It's world price
isn't so high, but priced in dollars, precious metals are up there simply because the
dollar is down... I suspect the gem market may be similarly affected.

Peter