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<p>[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 9845254, member: 5515"]Sorry, but I don't know if I follow what you are saying. The title of the question is "At what point do you scrap sterling?" which seemed to emphasize the frustrations of selling on eBay...a few thoughts on my end:</p><p><br /></p><p>If someone has made it clear they have found the eBay process frustrating, I don't think I'm offering them any value by telling them how good my eBay sales are.</p><p><br /></p><p>If someone says "I began to think of scrapping it" I'm going to give an answer assuming the silver will be treated like scrap. Your advice is definitely helpful too, but you are assuming the quality of the pieces, and I'm simply reading that they are considering scrap. And when you scrap something, it doesn't matter if it was your great great great aunties brooch or from a private Saudi Prince collection or if it's beat up metal; scrap is scrap and it has one price to it. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don't understanding why you wrote at such length about what the author is and isn't asking, but I'm reading the original message and I'm not reading what you are here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 9845254, member: 5515"]Sorry, but I don't know if I follow what you are saying. The title of the question is "At what point do you scrap sterling?" which seemed to emphasize the frustrations of selling on eBay...a few thoughts on my end: If someone has made it clear they have found the eBay process frustrating, I don't think I'm offering them any value by telling them how good my eBay sales are. If someone says "I began to think of scrapping it" I'm going to give an answer assuming the silver will be treated like scrap. Your advice is definitely helpful too, but you are assuming the quality of the pieces, and I'm simply reading that they are considering scrap. And when you scrap something, it doesn't matter if it was your great great great aunties brooch or from a private Saudi Prince collection or if it's beat up metal; scrap is scrap and it has one price to it. I don't understanding why you wrote at such length about what the author is and isn't asking, but I'm reading the original message and I'm not reading what you are here.[/QUOTE]
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