Category: Jewelry Business

The part of the business that has nothing to do with marketplaces: metals, suppliers, sizing, labeling, and what it costs to begin.

This is the section with the least guesswork on the site. It is written from inside a working jewelry shop — buying from suppliers in person, weighing stock, answering customers who want to know whether a piece is solid or plated, and running a catalogue where almost every item sells exactly once.

Where a legal standard applies it is cited rather than paraphrased: what may be called sterling or plated in the United States is set by a published federal guide, not by opinion. And where the honest answer is that it depends on your supplier, the post says so instead of inventing an average.