I May Have A Job At The Bullion Shop....

The stories are great Silverhawk! Keep 'em coming!

My Rolex experience:

A guy brought in a stainless and rose gold model, no crystal, didn't run, might have been missing a hand or two.

Me: What do you want for it?
He: 3.
Me: I can give you 50.
He: Naw, I'd have to get 3.
Me: Sorry, I can't help you.

Employee: ? You offered him more than he wanted, then he turned you down?
Me: That's because we understood each other. He wanted three hundred, I offered 50 dollars.

Week passes:

He: Can you go 75?
Me: Tell you what, I'll go 65.
He: Fair enuf.

Sold it to another dealer on teletype for 175, who said they'd fix it up and sell it back for 250 if I wanted it.

All of this talk of Rolex's makes me want one more...

I really like the simple look of the DateJust.

http://www.rolex.com/en#/rolex-watc...m116234-0091

Does it glow and fade out (fluorescent) or glow constantly (radioactive)?

I don't know where you have been lately but if you bought a sub 10 years ago you could get more selling it now then what you paid originally. The watch in the picture was $7k with the discount new and I could easily get $6500 back today at my AD. Maybe not the best investment in the world but definitely not like buying a new car that will lose 40% of its value when you leave the lot.

I just googled the outfit you work for. That's a pretty big operation. I didn't know there were coin shop chains, I thought they were all still a cottage industry.

You say they have their own melting operation? If it's close by, any chance of a trip report with pictures? The last Gold Rush has Parker taking his gold flakes to some guy with a little stack of bricks and a blow torch in a tar paper shack to melt it down into an ingot. It was interesting, and I'm wondering what other precious metal foundries look like.

Also, congrats on the new job. Love the thread.

Hey thanks Silvereye and Granite!

I have NOT been to the melt, as our clearing house is in Texas and I believe the melt is as well, but not sure on that....

That was a great episode where Parker took his last week before school to go up north to learn, smart move. That crazy guy, I figure them to put him on the show next season, as he is way up north in the Yukon, and he mines like 2 to 4 oz., like every three to four hours, freakin amazing. Parker watched him work that one pan, and he said it had more gold in it, then he had ever seen in a gold pan ever, lol. He then went on to say he is mining in the wrong creek. True dat, as his grandpa's creek porcupine has been mined out, as they have been mining there for 23 years....

Eventually all those gold holes dry out, and they gotta go find another....

That new gold show Bering sea gold is really good to, they vacuum the shallows right off the dock there in Nome, ridiculous. The big boat dredged 42 oz. in one day, and one of the smaller operations, a real smart young fellow who got a leg infection crawling under a house last year, ran up 150 grand in med bills, and needs to make a 100 grand dredging at least this year to knock off some of that medical debt. He and a young lady friend mined 5 oz. in one day, not bad at all....

They run hot water an oxygen into the suits for the divers, so they can stay under for hours at a time, 3 or 4 on average....

The pump vacuum brings the rocks up through the tubs, and across a sluice box complete with jet sprayers which blows the gold off and it of course sinks down into the gold moss in the slots an gets trapped, and the big rocks wash right off the back of the boat, an back into the Bering sea....