Sure, 950 platinum and palladium are different, but when you're discussing jewelry, and you say the word 'platinum', you're referring to the family, not the element.
You see, 950 platinum (the oldest and most popular platinum jewelry metal) isn't purely one element. It's a combination of two members of the platinum family, hence the designation 950 platinum, and the habit of referring to the metals as 'platinum'.
People don't wear jewelry made 100% of PT. They wear jewelry made of a mix of metals from the platinum family, hence my assertion that platinum isn't one metal, it's multiple metals. It is, when it's used in jewelry.
Sure, 950 platinum and palladium are different, but when you're discussing jewelry, and you say the word 'platinum', you're referring to the family, not the element.
You see, 950 platinum (the oldest and most popular platinum jewelry metal) isn't purely one element. It's a combination of two members of the platinum family, hence the designation 950 platinum, and the habit of referring to the metals as 'platinum'.
People don't wear jewelry made 100% of PT. They wear jewelry made of a mix of metals from the platinum family, hence my assertion that platinum isn't one metal, it's multiple metals. It is, when it's used in jewelry.
Sure, 950 platinum and palladium are different, but when you're discussing jewelry, and you say the word 'platinum', you're referring to the family, not the element.
You see, 950 platinum (the oldest and most popular platinum jewelry metal) isn't purely one element. It's a combination of two members of the platinum family, hence the designation 950 platinum, and the habit of referring to the metals as 'platinum'.
People don't wear jewelry made 100% of PT. They wear jewelry made of a mix of metals from the platinum family, hence my assertion that platinum isn't one metal, it's multiple metals. It is, when it's used in jewelry.
Sure, 950 platinum and palladium are different, but when you're discussing jewelry, and you say the word 'platinum', you're referring to the family, not the element.
You see, 950 platinum (the oldest and most popular platinum jewelry metal) isn't purely one element. It's a combination of two members of the platinum family, hence the designation 950 platinum, and the habit of referring to the metals as 'platinum'.
People don't wear jewelry made 100% of PT. They wear jewelry made of a mix of metals from the platinum family, hence my assertion that platinum isn't one metal, it's multiple metals. It is, when it's used in jewelry.
So far as I know, Portugal doesn't have any magic gold that's different from anyone else's gold. (If it were different, it wouldn't be gold.)
If they do offer 24k products, then no, it does not wear 'like everything else', if 'by everything else', you mean the standard 10k - 18k gold that's worn in most of the world.
Some countries do tend to use higher karats of gold, and some use lower (8k gold in Europe, really), but the softer it is, the more damage it takes. Don't believe me? Go purchase a 22k ring and wear it every day, and see how beat up it is at the end of the week. Imagine setting a diamond in that and then whacking it on something, as people do every day.
In a 14k ring, you're fine. Every few years, you need to have your prongs retipped or your stones tightened, but no problem. In a 22k ring, you're looking at maintenance every few months, minimum. My store wouldn't offer a warranty on that purchase, but would be happy to charge you for the maintenance. Of course, we would honestly tell you what to expect before you made the purchase...
Not the 'same metal', the same type of metal, from the same family, called the platinum family. Every member of the platinum family is a kind of family, just like your brothers and sisters (assuming you have any) are different, but of the same family. Claiming that they're totally different is like claiming that you and your siblings are genetic strangers.
I recommend taking it to a respected jeweler in your area, who should weigh and price your jewelry right in front of you, and give you a price on the spot.
I recommend taking it to a respected jeweler in your area, who should weigh and price your jewelry right in front of you, and give you a price on the spot.
...much good gold jewelry is an alloy of gold and silver, palladium, or platinum...
Also, that's just plain incorrect. The point of alloying gold with other metals is to make it hard enough to wear. Silver is just as soft as gold. (Well, pretty close.) Only an idiot would alloy a soft metal with a soft metal to try and make a hard metal. I can't think of a single manufacturer who does that.
Next, platinum is not a metal. Platinum is a family of metals. Palladium is a member of the platinum family. So you can't do anything with 'palladium or platinum'. You'd just be doing something with platinum.
What most people mean when they say 'platinum' is 950 platinum, which is one of the rarest varieties. Until recently, it was the only platinum metal available for use in casting jewelry (other kinds of platinum got bubbly during the casting process), so it's what people think of when they think of platinum.
In 2000, Tyler Teague of Jett Research came up with a new way to cast platinum metals, specifically palladium and ruthenium, thus sparking the use of palladium in jewelry. Palladium is about par on cost with fourteen karat gold, so there wouldn't be any point in alloying gold with palladium when you can just sell the palladium and have a better metal.
Last, but not least, most high-end companies have stopped using nickel, since most people are at least slightly allergic to it. In fact, white gold is by far more popular in the US than yellow gold, and white gold doesn't have nickel at all, even in cheap varieties, because it's alloy metals have to be white to make the gold 'white'.
Now, all white gold has a rhodium layer that's electroplated on (Rhodium being yet another kind of platinum...) to give it a bright-white look, but that can't be removed for profit. In fact, the rhodium-plating rubs off and has to be reapplied many times throughout the life of the jewelry.
No, you should visit a respected jeweler, who will almost always pay you more than a pawnshop, because they don't have to sell your items to new customers, they can break down the materials and use it to make new pieces, that sell faster and for a better margin.
Yeah, I know. I should have said 'why' and not 'how'. I meant, how could someone with a brain think that those two things are fundamentally different... but that's not what I wrote, lol.
You know, looking further, I'm going to amend that.
It actually looks like the investigation that you're talking about is for fraudulent activities concerning checks, which is new, and does seem to be spurred by customer complaints, where I'm talking about action from the state concerning Cash4Gold's lack of licensing for their sales processors, and complete lack of disregard for the state's identification laws.
...the end result is an investigation from state officials.
I'm sure that their further exposure to the public helped spur Florida's action against Cash4Gold, but it didn't start it.
Cash4Gold was being investigated by Florida at least a year prior to the Consumerist article. Florida received complaints about Cash4Gold's illegal activities from thousands of other jewelers across America, including a large group in Florida, virtually all of whom have to conform to stringent and expensive licensing and sales procedures, most of which are being skipped by Cash4Gold.
As a matter of fact, Florida has waited to act on their findings because a bill with additional legislation for secondhand precious gems and metal sales was planned in 2009. The bill was successful, and now Florida can pound Cash4Gold much harder than they could have before.
How do they differentiate between a television using that browser and a monitor using that browser? My husbands Samsung monitor has a built-in tuner, so you could call it a TV if you wanted. What's the difference between watching it on my big monitor or a small television?
They should have just started a new account (@HeinzKetchup or something similar), made sure to note that it was the OFFICIAL Heinz Twitter in their bio, send friend requests to all of @HJ_Heinz fans, and sent @HJ_Heinz a DM thanking him for being a fan of their product.
Discreetly, they should have applied for a Verified Account, and let Twitter decide what to do about the name confusion. Then, if Twitter changes the name, the bad publicity is on Twitter.
Agreed. They should have just started a new account (@HeinzKetchup or something similar), made sure to note that it was the OFFICIAL Heinz Twitter in their bio, send friend requests to all of @HJ_Heinz fans, and sent @HJ_Heinz a DM thanking him for being a fan of their product.
Discreetly, they should have applied for a Verified Account, and let Twitter decide what to do about the name confusion. Then, if Twitter changes the name, the bad publicity is on Twitter.
Twitter has its own search engine, which gives results within seconds. Second, if you're really using a tool like Tweetdeck, you have persistent searches so you'd know almost immediately.
Someone who isn't knowledgeable enough to already have a Twitter account probably doesn't know about Tweetdeck or how to use Twitter's search function.
And even if they were just searching Google or even Bing, both now have deals with Twitter for real time results, so the results show up within seconds, not two weeks...
I didn't know about that, but it's a big stretch to ignore Yahoo as a search provider. (Unless they have real-time deals as well.)
Interestingly, I didn't see anyone mention when Heinz reported the issue to Twitter. I mean, I can really see a Heinz employee taking note of the account, taking the time to find out if the account was legitimate, finding that it wasn't, passing that info up, a stuffed shirt deciding what to do about it, Twitter being contacted, the Twitter employee passing the information up, Twitter deciding on a course of action, and then executing said course of action...
Two weeks doesn't seem very short, but it doesn't seem very long either.
Assuming that it took Heinz two weeks to notice means assuming that someone at Heinz noticed the account, knew it wasn't legitimate, had the authority to decide to notify Twitter, notify Twitter, and that Twitter decided on the correct action, and executed that action, all in one day.
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Re: No, just.. No.
You see, 950 platinum (the oldest and most popular platinum jewelry metal) isn't purely one element. It's a combination of two members of the platinum family, hence the designation 950 platinum, and the habit of referring to the metals as 'platinum'.
People don't wear jewelry made 100% of PT. They wear jewelry made of a mix of metals from the platinum family, hence my assertion that platinum isn't one metal, it's multiple metals. It is, when it's used in jewelry.
Please, take a jeweler's course.
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Re: No, just.. No.
You see, 950 platinum (the oldest and most popular platinum jewelry metal) isn't purely one element. It's a combination of two members of the platinum family, hence the designation 950 platinum, and the habit of referring to the metals as 'platinum'.
People don't wear jewelry made 100% of PT. They wear jewelry made of a mix of metals from the platinum family, hence my assertion that platinum isn't one metal, it's multiple metals. It is, when it's used in jewelry.
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You see, 950 platinum (the oldest and most popular platinum jewelry metal) isn't purely one element. It's a combination of two members of the platinum family, hence the designation 950 platinum, and the habit of referring to the metals as 'platinum'.
People don't wear jewelry made 100% of PT. They wear jewelry made of a mix of metals from the platinum family, hence my assertion that platinum isn't one metal, it's multiple metals. It is, when it's used in jewelry.
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You see, 950 platinum (the oldest and most popular platinum jewelry metal) isn't purely one element. It's a combination of two members of the platinum family, hence the designation 950 platinum, and the habit of referring to the metals as 'platinum'.
People don't wear jewelry made 100% of PT. They wear jewelry made of a mix of metals from the platinum family, hence my assertion that platinum isn't one metal, it's multiple metals. It is, when it's used in jewelry.
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If they do offer 24k products, then no, it does not wear 'like everything else', if 'by everything else', you mean the standard 10k - 18k gold that's worn in most of the world.
Some countries do tend to use higher karats of gold, and some use lower (8k gold in Europe, really), but the softer it is, the more damage it takes. Don't believe me? Go purchase a 22k ring and wear it every day, and see how beat up it is at the end of the week. Imagine setting a diamond in that and then whacking it on something, as people do every day.
In a 14k ring, you're fine. Every few years, you need to have your prongs retipped or your stones tightened, but no problem. In a 22k ring, you're looking at maintenance every few months, minimum. My store wouldn't offer a warranty on that purchase, but would be happy to charge you for the maintenance. Of course, we would honestly tell you what to expect before you made the purchase...
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Also, that's just plain incorrect. The point of alloying gold with other metals is to make it hard enough to wear. Silver is just as soft as gold. (Well, pretty close.) Only an idiot would alloy a soft metal with a soft metal to try and make a hard metal. I can't think of a single manufacturer who does that.
Next, platinum is not a metal. Platinum is a family of metals. Palladium is a member of the platinum family. So you can't do anything with 'palladium or platinum'. You'd just be doing something with platinum.
What most people mean when they say 'platinum' is 950 platinum, which is one of the rarest varieties. Until recently, it was the only platinum metal available for use in casting jewelry (other kinds of platinum got bubbly during the casting process), so it's what people think of when they think of platinum.
In 2000, Tyler Teague of Jett Research came up with a new way to cast platinum metals, specifically palladium and ruthenium, thus sparking the use of palladium in jewelry. Palladium is about par on cost with fourteen karat gold, so there wouldn't be any point in alloying gold with palladium when you can just sell the palladium and have a better metal.
Last, but not least, most high-end companies have stopped using nickel, since most people are at least slightly allergic to it. In fact, white gold is by far more popular in the US than yellow gold, and white gold doesn't have nickel at all, even in cheap varieties, because it's alloy metals have to be white to make the gold 'white'.
Now, all white gold has a rhodium layer that's electroplated on (Rhodium being yet another kind of platinum...) to give it a bright-white look, but that can't be removed for profit. In fact, the rhodium-plating rubs off and has to be reapplied many times throughout the life of the jewelry.
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It actually looks like the investigation that you're talking about is for fraudulent activities concerning checks, which is new, and does seem to be spurred by customer complaints, where I'm talking about action from the state concerning Cash4Gold's lack of licensing for their sales processors, and complete lack of disregard for the state's identification laws.
RoseFail.
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I'm sure that their further exposure to the public helped spur Florida's action against Cash4Gold, but it didn't start it.
Cash4Gold was being investigated by Florida at least a year prior to the Consumerist article. Florida received complaints about Cash4Gold's illegal activities from thousands of other jewelers across America, including a large group in Florida, virtually all of whom have to conform to stringent and expensive licensing and sales procedures, most of which are being skipped by Cash4Gold.
As a matter of fact, Florida has waited to act on their findings because a bill with additional legislation for secondhand precious gems and metal sales was planned in 2009. The bill was successful, and now Florida can pound Cash4Gold much harder than they could have before.
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Discreetly, they should have applied for a Verified Account, and let Twitter decide what to do about the name confusion. Then, if Twitter changes the name, the bad publicity is on Twitter.
Faster, easier, simpler, better customer service.
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Discreetly, they should have applied for a Verified Account, and let Twitter decide what to do about the name confusion. Then, if Twitter changes the name, the bad publicity is on Twitter.
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Someone who isn't knowledgeable enough to already have a Twitter account probably doesn't know about Tweetdeck or how to use Twitter's search function.
And even if they were just searching Google or even Bing, both now have deals with Twitter for real time results, so the results show up within seconds, not two weeks...
I didn't know about that, but it's a big stretch to ignore Yahoo as a search provider. (Unless they have real-time deals as well.)
Interestingly, I didn't see anyone mention when Heinz reported the issue to Twitter. I mean, I can really see a Heinz employee taking note of the account, taking the time to find out if the account was legitimate, finding that it wasn't, passing that info up, a stuffed shirt deciding what to do about it, Twitter being contacted, the Twitter employee passing the information up, Twitter deciding on a course of action, and then executing said course of action...
Two weeks doesn't seem very short, but it doesn't seem very long either.
Assuming that it took Heinz two weeks to notice means assuming that someone at Heinz noticed the account, knew it wasn't legitimate, had the authority to decide to notify Twitter, notify Twitter, and that Twitter decided on the correct action, and executed that action, all in one day.
Doesn't seem very likely.
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