Silver Swindles. Unfucking beliveable. Is there a single corporation in the world that isn’t trying to fuck the little guy? If these damn stores don’t want to take action (never mind accountability) then I hope they get robbed, looted, and burnt to the ground. Fuckin’ giant companies charging middle and lower class families for silver and giving them steel is just evil. May the final scene of Fight Club come to pass.
I’m sick and tired of hearing the government bitch about drugs and Iraq while corporate america robs us blind. Not to say that those aren’t legitimate issues, but sometimes I feel like it’s pure misdirection. Watch what is going on in one hand while the other pulls your wallet out of your pants. How about they spend the money fighting the useless drug war on bending these corporations over and making them pay for the policies which make fucking with citizens standard procedure. Corporate crooks in ties piss me off far more than the low level thug who steals to pay the artifically inflated price of his habit. We’ve got some priority issues in this damn country. These silver swindlers better get raked over the coals by the legal system or I am going to be very fucking pissed at our government.
If anyone cares to follow up on this story over the next month, I think that you will discover that major stores in a mall, Penny’s etc, probably don’t have too much problem with fake sterling products, no matter what that article says.
If you buy your jewelry from a kiosk in the middle of the mall, then buyer beware.
Yes, I know that the author of the story quotes a newsletter writer who esentially says that most of the sterling jewelry he/she tested at the mall in Texax was magnetic. I say “bullshit.”
I’ll wager that if you were allowed to test the sterling chains in anchor stores in you local mall, you’d find that they are 99% sterling.
Again, the kiosks I don’t vouch for, as well as not vouching for small, independent one-of-a-kind stores in a local mall.
Just my opinion.
If the newsleter writer is correct about major corporations, then he should file a complaint with the FTC. You’ll read about it then.
If the article is true, this is fraudulent, and I hope those responsible are held accountable. However, let’s think about the magnitude of the fraud here. It’s not like silver is a precious metal. Spot price is what, $5 an ounce? If you got bilked out of $1 worth of metal on your ring, thats bad, but its hardly the same kind of issue that would occur if they were substituting something for gold or platinium.
Well, of course, you Mope!. The “clasp” is silver but has a spring fitting inside which is not silver. It probably is steel. It has to be something strong to withstand the constant opening and closing of the clasp. So almost all silver chains will have their clasps attracted to a magnet.
