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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 9430402, member: 649&quot;]I don&#039;t understand... why would a dealer do this? They&#039;re buying for scrap... if it&#039;s NOT gold, they therefore wouldn&#039;t even offer to buy it. My dealer just hands non-gold stuff right back to me.</p><p>I can see how an unscrupulous dealer could claim an item is a lower carat than it actually is... and therefore offer the seller a lower price. Or that the item weighs less than it actually does. My dealer tests and weighs right in front of me. (Though, again, an unscrupulous dealer could switch out the labels on the test acids, or adjust his scale to read less than actual weight.)</p><p>As for scratch testing items at home, it can be deceiving. Are your acids &quot;fresh&quot;? If not, you can get bad results. And then there&#039;s the confusion of testing gold-filled items...</p><p>I guess I&#039;m lucky that I had a dealer that appears to be honest/fair recommended to me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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