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Super_Ideal_Rock
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Here's how it would work:
PEARLS for PAWS (or some other name, just playing around with words here.)
1. People donate jewelry they don't wear to participating jewelers. (Jewelers who sell "estate" pieces)
2. The jewelers then donate the amount they expect each piece to bring in to an animal rescue group.
3. Animal rescue groups get much-needed funding they wouldn't otherwise receive, and we save some furry lives!
So many of us have pieces sitting in our jewelry boxes with no hope of being worn. We hold on to some of those items because we know we'll never be able to get anywhere near what they're worth on the secondary market, so it's just easier to keep them than to sell them. BUT, for animal lovers out there, knowing that they could turn the full retail value of those pieces into donations supporting animals, then maybe that's the incentive people need to let go of some pieces.
Participating jewelers lose no money in the transaction. They earn brownie points, good will, and exposure for donating the value of the items. They can make that money back once they sell the items they took in.
This could be a way to support animal rescue groups without actually having people shell out any cash. It's so much easier to part with items we own but never use than it is to part with actual money. I have so many silver Tiffany pieces I never wear, and never will wear, but I'm not interested in selling them for a small percentage of what they could earn if resold by a jeweler.
What do you think?
My jeweler hosts a 5K and gives all proceeds to the Make-a-Wish Foundation. There must be jewelers who are animal lovers out there.
PEARLS for PAWS (or some other name, just playing around with words here.)
1. People donate jewelry they don't wear to participating jewelers. (Jewelers who sell "estate" pieces)
2. The jewelers then donate the amount they expect each piece to bring in to an animal rescue group.
3. Animal rescue groups get much-needed funding they wouldn't otherwise receive, and we save some furry lives!
So many of us have pieces sitting in our jewelry boxes with no hope of being worn. We hold on to some of those items because we know we'll never be able to get anywhere near what they're worth on the secondary market, so it's just easier to keep them than to sell them. BUT, for animal lovers out there, knowing that they could turn the full retail value of those pieces into donations supporting animals, then maybe that's the incentive people need to let go of some pieces.
Participating jewelers lose no money in the transaction. They earn brownie points, good will, and exposure for donating the value of the items. They can make that money back once they sell the items they took in.
This could be a way to support animal rescue groups without actually having people shell out any cash. It's so much easier to part with items we own but never use than it is to part with actual money. I have so many silver Tiffany pieces I never wear, and never will wear, but I'm not interested in selling them for a small percentage of what they could earn if resold by a jeweler.
What do you think?
My jeweler hosts a 5K and gives all proceeds to the Make-a-Wish Foundation. There must be jewelers who are animal lovers out there.