u/DefiantSmoke1569

I inherited fine jewelry, mainly rings, necklaces, and earrings, from anywhere from the late 1800s to the early 2000s. Basically all of the family jewels plus my jewelry obsessed aunt‘s haul who collected a lot in the 80’s and 90’s.

I want the biggest bang for my buck, so I’m planning on selling everything on eBay and possibly Etsy.

My main question is this: I’m planning on having everything appraised for insurance so I know roundabout value, to have confirmation of the metal and gem, and also to insure things while they’re sitting waiting to sell. I know it’s expensive but I think it’s worth it. Is it an added value to include the insurance value appraisal in the sale?

Any tips or common sense welcome. Thank you!

Savers/Unique/2nd Avenue (ie, Value Villlage) employees are basically running an internal mafia at this point.

I found out from a manager that some of the best vintage and collectible donations apparently never even make it onto the floor. Sorters and floor staff underprice desirable stuff, keep it aside, and buy it themselves.

And I’ve personally watched employees pricing jewelry while literally on the phone with someone standing 50 feet away pretending to browse another aisle. So this is not exactly subtle.

Apparently management in my area is all friends/family and everyone knows what’s going on. When I asked what could actually be done about it, the manager basically told me it was pointless because corporate doesn’t do shit and everyone up the chain already knows.

So if you keep hitting these stores wondering why genuinely good donated stuff almost never makes it onto the floor, there may be a reason.

The employees and their friends got first pick before you even walked through the door. This is total bullshit.

I cannot make this up. For context, I work in a very white, very wealthy part of an already wealthy U.S. state. I was born here to Argentine parents but I’m writing this in English because I communicate better in this language lrcpmqlrmp.

Today I went to Whole Foods for lunch and noticed a deli employee wearing an Argentina shirt. I was like hmm, that’s cool, I should go say hi. There was an older, distinguished-looking Indian man talking to him, and I heard “Messi” so I assumed he was a Bangladeshi Argentine. After I ate, I walked over and asked the employee if he was Argentine.

He said no, he just liked the shirt. I asked if he liked the team. “No,” he said. “I don’t like how they play.“ Oh lol, fair enough.

As I was turning to walk away, I just said, “There’s a lot of misinformation out there. Make sure you’re doing your own research about Argentina and its people.” Never in my wildest did I think that old man was a walking Twitter troll but oh boy.

He immediately jumped in and siad I must be Argentine, and started talking about how racist Argentines are and how they can’t get over the war and blahblahblah. At one point he mentioned he was an England supporter, which made the whole thing make more sense but I didn’t realize the aggression this dude was carrying.

I was just going to let it go until he brought up the “Argentine female politician” who supposedly made racist comments about Mbappé on Twitter. I asked, “Do you mean the Paraguayan lawmaker?” I was like, why are you confusing these two completely separate countries?

He was excited to prove me wrong and pulled out his phone. Then he looked at it, realized I was right, and immediately switched to, “Well, I know Argentines are racist because I lived through it.”

By this point I was highly annoyed so I asked if he was maybe confusing Argentina with England (lol) including its colonial history and the regular far-right incidents that still happen there today.

That set him the *fuck* off. He had turned almost purple and was sneering at me and getting closer and closer and running his mouth a hundred miles an hour. He said those incidents were one off and not indicative of the country as a whole and why was I (!!!) bringing politics into it. Real rich of him.

Anyway, I’m a woman, and wasn’t about to stand there arguing with a clearly unhinged man in a Whole Foods especially since people were starting to watch. As I was leaving, I cut him off from his raging diatribe, told him to stop being part of the problem and to learn how to contribute to the betterment of the world lol, and told the kid in the Argentina shirt not to take one person’s word for it and to do his own research.

I looked over my shoulder the whole way back to my car.

Anyway, I’m still kind of shaken. The shit is real and it’s out there getting out of hand and it’s festering in places you’d never expect.

in Burke and they’re not being released. it’s fucking hot in there and the employees are sweating bullets.

Who do I direct my heat rage towards that’ll be the most effective? OSHA? County? thanks

ps: ac has been broken all day and no techs until next week