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<p>[QUOTE="john65999, post: 5425087, member: 111931"]years ago me Da' went to a well known jeweler in our town and asked to have a piece mad, the dealer looked him up and down (jeans and a white t-shirt" and said, sir, you cannot afford it, shop elsewhere...well he did, he found an Iranian jewler in the next town, told him what he wanted, and the guy made it, then showed it to him then told me Da' the price 3200.00 it was a 50th anniversary wedding present to me Ma' he whipped out the Benjie's and took it with him, on the way home he stopped by the other jeweler and said, hello, i want a duplicate of this made, he looked at it, weighed it, then said 4900.00, me Da laughed and said, yup, if last month you would of talked to me i would have done it, but you disrespected me, so i went elsewhere, and also saved 1200..00 lol the moral of the story never judge a book by the cover, my dad was a commercial artist..making 35.00 an hour back when min wage was like 3.00 per hour..and a the time of this purchase was a studio manager..first thing he did was abolish suit and tie, it was a studio, why be spiffy?? be comfortable..lol another friend of mine (also deceased) owned an auto body shop and a large gun collection as well as famous pieces of jewelry, even a piec belonging to (at one time) queen Isabella of Spain) but that for another time, but anyways, he always looked like a slob, holy t shirts and dirty jeans, but when i used to go on buying trips with him, he always took 70 or 80 100.00 bills with him..he got that talk a time or too, but he would whip out the wad of 100's then when they changed their tune, he would say, nah you disrespect people see ya...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="john65999, post: 5425087, member: 111931"]years ago me Da' went to a well known jeweler in our town and asked to have a piece mad, the dealer looked him up and down (jeans and a white t-shirt" and said, sir, you cannot afford it, shop elsewhere...well he did, he found an Iranian jewler in the next town, told him what he wanted, and the guy made it, then showed it to him then told me Da' the price 3200.00 it was a 50th anniversary wedding present to me Ma' he whipped out the Benjie's and took it with him, on the way home he stopped by the other jeweler and said, hello, i want a duplicate of this made, he looked at it, weighed it, then said 4900.00, me Da laughed and said, yup, if last month you would of talked to me i would have done it, but you disrespected me, so i went elsewhere, and also saved 1200..00 lol the moral of the story never judge a book by the cover, my dad was a commercial artist..making 35.00 an hour back when min wage was like 3.00 per hour..and a the time of this purchase was a studio manager..first thing he did was abolish suit and tie, it was a studio, why be spiffy?? be comfortable..lol another friend of mine (also deceased) owned an auto body shop and a large gun collection as well as famous pieces of jewelry, even a piec belonging to (at one time) queen Isabella of Spain) but that for another time, but anyways, he always looked like a slob, holy t shirts and dirty jeans, but when i used to go on buying trips with him, he always took 70 or 80 100.00 bills with him..he got that talk a time or too, but he would whip out the wad of 100's then when they changed their tune, he would say, nah you disrespect people see ya...[/QUOTE]
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