[David Jones]

We have a jewelry store here in Hoover Alabama. http://jewelers3.com/
One thing we do is buy scrap gold and we advertise that fact on one of the local TV stations in the form of a "business break". It's fairly amazing how well it works. I get to the office at about 7AM and on the mornings the business breaks run I usually start answering the store phone when I come in the door. There's an interesting group of people that call a jewelry store at 7AM thinking it's actually open.
This morning one of the girls that works up in the store came back to the offices (our main business is wholesale) right after the store opened and kinda looked around. I asked how I could help her. She held something up and said "I need to get the gold off of this". Turned out it was a whole tooth with a gold crown on it. (dental gold is 16K) I grabbed our hammer, took the tooth and went to the back room where I laid the tooth on the floor and smacked it a few times with the hammer reducing the tooth itself to tooth gravel, liberating the crown.
I then washed my hands........repeatedly.

[hada76]

at least it was not still in the skull

[Bob Dillon]

David, do you happen to know what dental gold is alloyed with?

Just curious.

[David Jones]

Originally Posted by Bob Dillon

David, do you happen to know what dental gold is alloyed with?

Just curious.

All manner of things, depending on the need/use. Silver, copper, platinum group metals and sometimes nickel.

http://download.springer.com/static/...9dfca&ext=.pdf

Freaks the girls out...and rightly so.

[GOAT WHORE]

Doesn't everyone have something like that lying around?

[Chris65LeMans]

Originally Posted by David Jones

We have a jewelry store here in Hoover Alabama. http://jewelers3.com/ There's an interesting group of people that call a jewelry store at 7AM thinking it's actually open.

I'd wager the type of people who haven't gone to sleep yet - perhaps for a couple days.

[PonchoV8]

Greg, that's pretty scary looking.

[klunker]

Originally Posted by David Jones

We have a jewelry store here in Hoover Alabama. http://jewelers3.com/
One thing we do is buy scrap gold
.

Love to ask you the following

1) do you have to by law get ID info from sellers?
2) do you sell gold to general public?
3) do you have to by law get ID info from buyers?
4) how do you price gold when you sell? mark-up over current price?
5) Is the game of buying and selling gold guessing trends then sitting on and selling at right time?

[GOAT WHORE]

Originally Posted by PonchoV8

Greg, that's pretty scary looking.

Ya, was not very easy to extract either.

[David Jones]

Originally Posted by klunker

Love to ask you the following

1) do you have to by law get ID info from sellers?
2) do you sell gold to general public?
3) do you have to by law get ID info from buyers?
4) how do you price gold when you sell? mark-up over current price?
5) Is the game of buying and selling gold guessing trends then sitting on and selling at right time?

1. No, but we do.
2. No. We do sell finished jewelry however.
3. No. Our buyer is one of the largest actual refiners in the country however. Not just a smelter.
4. We sell it for a percentage of the current days gold market.
5. Some do that on a different level. Generally the market doesn't move enough to make that worthwhile for us.....at least at the shallow end of the pool we play in.