Selling Gold Jewelry

My gold collection is an assortment of shapes, memories, and ages. Have I waited too long to clear it up, to skillfully time rocket-high prices for gold and the ‘spring’ cleaning of the jewelry box? Perhaps there is still time. I am rather fond of many pieces, others, tokens of times long gone; embody gilded beauty of memories and whispers of bitterness. Was it Marilyn Monroe who claimed that diamonds are the girl’s best friend? The world knows where her friends got her. There is something immediately temping in surrendering faltering memories (or maybe the lack thereof) to a salesman, for hard, solid cash. How many of us look at our bank statement and find either an immediate reassurance in the beauty and stability of their personal world or a staggering headache? I know I do. The sensation is never the same, as times to reap are followed by the time to saw.

Gifts of affection, which has gone out of life, just like the pieces themselves have gone out of style, foes, rather than friends, can be traded in for an unplanned vacation. The idea takes shape, grows, and becomes a B-rated film fantasy. The image of a portly fellow with a jeweler’s glass, arriving at my door with an intentionally un-suspicious beaten-up leather suitcase filled with cash, damping sweat off his balding head and thick brows with a crumpled handkerchief, as out of date as the gold I’m selling plays in my head. As he is leaving the house after an unhurried examination, and good-natured bargaining, my jewelry box and his suitcase both lighter, our moods brighter, he pauses on the doorstep, turns around, and with a classic “Almost Forgot!” exclamation digs into his jacket pocket. Out comes a bottle of sun block lotion with my name on it. “That’s complimentary.” Few minutes later I’m choosing a vacation. I am completely sure of two things. One: the gold buyer at my door is a fruit brought forth by a number of generations of snake oil salesmen. Two: I got a good deal. The daydreams end with me looking out at the rising sun out of a plane window, and the big, fancifully-drawn subtitle: “She is happy she sold her gold.” slowly fade across the screen. I wouldn’t be a proper cynic if I let it end there. Next shot: a hole in the ground, plane wreck, burned ground and metal, the big, fancifully-drawn subtitle: “Boy, was she wrong.”Slowly fading across the screen. The end.

As the wise men are playing with the world, I am playing with my trinkets. Gold prices are going up. Gold prices are going down. Sell gold. Buy gold. Hang on to it till you die, let your relatives sell it after. Give it away to the first stranger who offers to get it off your hands and smiles nicely. This is not a major decision, but it is a somewhat of a serious step.

Do you break up with your beau the moment he tires you, or do you stick around to see if it will lead to a marriage, so you that you can have a life-long completion of tiring each-other out (the first one to call it quits or to die looses)? I’ve spent almost a life time with some of my pieces. I’m ready to let them go. The question is when and how.

It’s mid August, and gold has been steadily declining for a week, closing at $825 – its lowest during 2008. Wise men – wildly canny and ridiculously well-educated investors, for whom I carry the most profound respect and reverence, even if they don’t seem to agree with each-other a better part of the time on most issues, are rapidly expressing their opinions of where will gold stock head tomorrow. I wish I had a crisp and impressive financial degree from one of the world’s top ten business schools, so that I’d be able to pit my guess against theirs, locking horns with the best in business. Alas!

The imaginary gold buyers won’t come knocking on my door; my education is good enough to at least know that for certain. Means just like thousands of others, I’ll have to put in my research, and find the one whom I’ll like best. In spirit of best literary traditions, I’ll know Him instantly when I’ll see him. The basic know-how: he’ll offer me the most cash for the gold.

Sell Jewelery

Author: Dahen Shilpa
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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