Yeah, so someone actually came in to day to sell me gold. I put a sign up in my window, which faces main street with big red letters, "BUYING GOLD."
Downside was that they walked in a moment before I was due in Carson City for a tv repair house call. Mmmmkay, she was a sweet lady so I lent her my time. It's such a rarity these days that someone actually catch me sitting in my shop since when I'm without help I work 9-5 "by appointment only".... it gives me the freedom to not be tied down to the shop so I can go out on calls or whatever.
It took a good 40 minutes to help her out. She walked in and plopped a freezer bag full of tangled gold chains on the front desk and started pulling all of it out until I said, "Ah ma'am, why don't you go ahead and come on back." So we went to the back office and spread out her tangled up jewelry on the desk. More than half of it wasn't even real gold, it was gold plated base metal or composite of some sort; very light. That went aside. After some testing and weighing I threw her a figure of $97 and some odd cents. She was a tad disappointed at first, as the price of gold bullion (today) was $1,112 a troy oz..... so after explaining that I weigh her gold in Grams, and then factor in the karat (which is the 'purity' of the gold which includes other undesirable alloys), convert grams to Oz., along with 'some' room for markup when I resell it to the foundry, she was more than happy and understood the situation.
She said she'd be back with another bag.
And I was late for my other calls. I loathe lack of punctuality... but hey, I wasn't about to turn her away when she's gonna tell her friends.
Laid back day. Tomorrow's gonna be the bitch.
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