our Archive for March, 2009
Go Green: San Diego Gold Refinery Recycles Gold
The San Diego gold refinery at San Diego Jewelry Buyers (SDJB) has teamed up with local award-winning designer Timothy Meier to provide “green” (eco-friendly) fine jewelry to San Diego residents.
San Diego and Southern California residents can bring their used gold jewelry into SDJB’s gold refinery offices at 907 6th Ave. and receive cash for it today. SDJB’s gold refinery refines the gold jewelry and items it purchases from consumers and mints the precious metal into one ounce “eco-friendly gold” bars. Some of this recycled gold is now being supplied to Timothy Meier Design for creating “eco-friendly” fine custom jewelry designs.
SDJB sees gold recycling on the local level as an important step toward a greener jewelry industry. The company believes that the people of San Diego can work together as a community to lessen worldwide environmental damage by recycling, refining, and refashioning its scrap gold into new pieces of fine jewelry that everyone can be proud to wear.
“Our vision is for the San Diego jewelry industry to become entirely self-sufficient with regards to gold. In the future, jewelers should be able to re-supply all their gold stocks from local green gold suppliers like San Diego Jewelry Buyers,” SDJB said. “Recycling gold is not the only, nor by any means final, solution to the problem. But it is one of the first steps required in the ultimate goal of eliminating all the destructive mining practices that are causing harm to our planet. We are very happy that an outstanding designer like Timothy Meier has joined our San Diego gold refinery in this effort.”
Meier is an accomplished jewelry designer and bench jeweler who creates custom fine jewelry from his downtown studio. As a master craftsman, he performs each step of the jewelry building process himself: from mixing his own precious metal alloys to the final gemstone setting. His intense attention to detail recently earned him a “Best in Show” award from JCK magazine, one of the industry’s most respected magazines and trade show organizers. Designing jewelry inspired by organic lines, Meier says that he is pleased to be working with San Diego Jewelry Buyers’ gold refinery on its green gold venture, as it is a logical extension of his respect for the beauty of the natural world.
To learn more about SDJB, recycling your gold jewelry, and San Diego designer Timothy Meier, please visit their websites.
About San Diego Jewelry Buyers
San Diego Jewelry Buyers is located in the historic Gaslamp Quarter of downtown San Diego. The company leverages decades of industry expertise to offer more cash and better loans to San Diegans who want to pawn or sell gold, platinum, and diamonds. Its network of buyers and knowledge of high-street jewelry and horology brands stretches from Los Angeles to Dallas; Miami to New York; London to Paris; and Moscow to Tokyo.
About Timothy Meier Design
Timothy Meier Design is dedicated to the finest in jewelry design. The studio’s distinctive men’s collection incites a primal aesthetic that resonates with Gen X – give or take 10 years. Our jewelers handcraft each piece to withstand a man’s everyday wear and in return grant him respect, even a little envy.
For more info, please visit or contact:
San Diego Jewelry Buyers
907 6th Ave
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 236-9603 – (800) 557-9413
www.sandiegojewelrybuyers.com
What Should I Ask a San Diego Gold Buyer?
San Diego Jewelry Buyers has announced the publication of a new education article appearing on their online Knowledge pages for consumers wanting to sell gold, fine jewelry, diamonds, and timepieces. Titled “7 Quick Questions to Ask Your Gold Buyer,” the article intends to help consumers avoid many of the pitfalls that have been recently documented by investigative news programs, where gold buyers and gold refineries have been engaging in dubious practices to buy gold from sellers for far less than what they deserve.
“Over the past year, there have been literally hundreds of new people and companies getting into the gold buying business,” says Alan Blyler, a spokesperson for San Diego Jewelry Buyers. According to Blyler, while some of these gold buyers are upstanding and follow industry accepted practices, many more, especially some of the big online outfits, are engaging in practices that long-time gold buyers do not support.
For example, some gold jewelry buyers immediately offer a customer a higher amount when he or she rejects the company’s first buying offer; and then a higher cash amount again when that person rejects their second offer. “An upstanding gold buyer will give you their best buying offer right from the start. Period,” says Blyler.
One sample from San Diego Jewelry Buyers “7 Quick Questions to Ask Your Gold Buyer” is the following:
How much are you paying per gram today for 14 karat gold (or 10K, or
18K, etc.)?
CORRECT ANSWER: According to today’s market price of gold, we are paying ___ per gram for 14K gold (or 10K, or 18K, etc.).
REASON: Some gold buyers will use deceptive techniques in order to get you into their store. For example, they might say, “Today’s gold price is ___ per gram.” Then when you come in they will explain that the price they quoted you on the phone was what they sell gold for, not what they buy it for. They do this in hopes of capturing a certain number of people who will still go through with the transaction despite the “misunderstanding.”
To read the rest of SDJB’s essential questions to ask a gold buyer, please visit 7 Questions For Gold Sellers.
For more information about the company, please visit or contact:
San Diego Jewelry Buyers
907 6th Ave
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 236-9603 – (800) 557-9413
www.sandiegojewelrybuyers.com
