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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 9/20/2009 6:34:52 PM | There are TV ads from companies telling viewers to send in their gold. I am not certain, but think they are from American firms.
I wonder how trustworthy those companies are.
Has anyone done that...packaged up their gold and shipped it off?
Did you get what you think was a fair deal? | |
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Moanie
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Joined: 4/16/2008
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 9/20/2009 7:38:29 PM | wow, that sounds like quite the scam. Buyer Beware  Why waste postage, when if that is what you want to do you could do it here. I would recommend having your gold weighed before walking in somewhere to negotiate a deal.
Me? I gave mine back to the buyer   | |
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 9/22/2009 12:33:20 AM | There are TV ads from companies telling viewers to send in their gold. I am not certain, but think they are from American firms.
I wonder how trustworthy those companies are.
THEY ARE NOT TRUSTWORTHY AT ALL!
If it sounds to good to be true, then it is!
Usually they pay less than 20 % of the actual gold value.
To figure out the gold value is real easy.
1 carat of gold = 1000/24. So 9 carat is 37.5% gold, 14 carat = 58.3 % of gold. That is the amount of gold contained in a ring.
Your daily gold price is easily found usually quoted in US $ per ounce Troy. One ounce 1 troy ounce = 31.1034768 metric grams
Price today +/- $US 1008.00 per ounce = 32.50 per gram
But, refineries do have some refining charges, small quantities of old gold like a few rings are not worth to sell.
Best to have a jeweler rework it into something else or s/he may even buy it from you. When selling remember simple jewelry has 100 to 500 % mark up, so do not expect a lot for a small wedding ring even if it had cost 500 or more.
Stones like diamonds are even worse, you get usually only 30 to 50 % of what you paid. | |
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 9/22/2009 7:57:18 AM |
Has anyone done that...packaged up their gold and shipped it off?
I didn't send my gold away, I took all my broken jewellery into Gem's Jewellers, when they advertised it...and then bought a bunch of new stuff. I got about $500 for it all.....like what was I gonna do with one earing etc...broken clasps, bent gold bangles etc????
I think it was worth it.
Was talking to a guy friend last night about what he did with his and his ex's rings...he said he thru them in his fish tank...in the skulls eyes for a couple of years...then pawned them off for a 24 of beer...He said..."it felt satisfying." | |
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 9/22/2009 8:03:48 PM | | had to have it cut off and then had it in the pocket of my jeans and stepped on it when they were on the floor. It's barely a ring...squashed gold strip. I swear, some day, I will get it melted into something else.... someday. lol | |
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 9/23/2009 11:25:54 AM | This morning as I'm hustling to the super market in the mall I pass People's Jewellers and remember it was at their store we got our wedding rings, so thinking of this topic I turn back and approach the salesperson. I say "My wedding band has endured longer than the marriage. Do you take rings back... or anything like that?"
She tells me of their "Re-styling event", (the next one in October). People can bring in their jewellery, have it melted down and have something else produced from it, add gems, etc. and advises that is only option they have.
I am no longer able to wear jewellery so this is not a viable option for me, but might be for others. | |
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 9/23/2009 1:49:42 PM | ^^^ yeah well, nice pr work, don't you think???
Get a real quote on how much it'll cost you...
alternatively, you do have children...if you can't find use for it, add a little stone to it and call it bday or  | |
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 10/26/2009 9:28:06 AM | | I'm saving mine for my daughter when she graduates. After all, her Dad loves her so why not let her enjoy the ring as well. | |
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 10/27/2009 8:20:46 PM | If valuable, shine up, repair if needed, get an appraisal, sell.
If not valuable, donate to a piercing shop to start a new trend in nose rings.
If no one wants the dam thing at all, put in with your old buttons and play Treasure Chest on Dress Up Day.
Works for me! 
The PMS Pragmatist  | |
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 10/27/2009 9:06:24 PM | Well people use to throw them off bridges . Just don't stop your car on the bridge , the fine will be more than the ring is worth .  | |
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 10/27/2009 9:56:51 PM | I remembered hearing about this a year or so ago.... there are companies that have created coffins for your wedding rings...
No really, check it out
http://www.weddingringcoffin.com/Details/ | |
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 10/27/2009 10:29:47 PM | Thanks for the link to www.weddingringcoffin.com
They offer some cute little plaques for the ring coffins. "Six feet isn't deep enough".
I noticed they also have a page "Divorce Party FAQs".
Hmm, who would invite their ex to the party?
I also checked out their link to Divorce Cakes. Some tragically funny cake designs. | |
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| What to do with old wedding rings?
Posted: 11/12/2009 4:59:04 PM |
going to the children of the marriage
(cause it means something to them)
and so it happened..my daughter got married this past summer and used the diamonds from my engagement ring in her wedding ring as her parents marriage was a great thing in her life - it begat her.... sweet
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