Well, it could be argued its personal property and not medical equipment but if she took it to court I don't think she'd have a leg to stand on.....



 

Good little article and refers to place to sell..... midwestrefineries.com and  arnoldjeweler.com for the knives.

http://www.ebay.com/gds/Selling-Sterling-Silver-/10000000021269768/g.html


Midwest Refineries no longer accepts any weighted sterling silver

Some sterling silver items like candlesticks and pedestal style containers and bowls, are weighted with wax, plaster or fillers with steel support rods for strength. Dinner knives from sterling flatware, have stainless steel blades with steel support rods and filler that run through the sterling silver handle. The silver is then poured or molded over this material in the manufacturing process.

All sterling silver must be free of all stainless steel and weighted filler like wax, cement, plaster, support rods and glass.

If you attempt to strip your sterling silver of its weighted materials, we recommend the use of gloves and protective eyewear.

All craigslist postings are free, except for:

1. Job postings in SF Bay Area—$75 per job per category (e.g. 1 job in 2 categories is $150).
2. Job postings in the following areas—$25 per job per category (e.g. 1 job in 2 categories is $50):

Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Central NJ, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Inland Empire, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Long Island, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York City, North Jersey, Orange County, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Raleigh, Sacramento, St. Louis , San Antonio, San Diego, Seattle, South Florida, Tampa, Washington DC.

3. Brokered apartment rentals in New York City—$10.

4. Therapeutic services in the United States—$10 (reposting of live ads $5).

5. Tickets by-dealer in the United States—$5.

Visa, MasterCard, and American Express credit cards are accepted for payment.

You put it in a box.  Then you put that box in another box.  Then you mail it to yourself and when it arrives you SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!!!


No really.  Smash handle.  Use pliers to pull out blade.   It's mounted in a ceramic type substance so don't smash flat.  Just enough to loosen with space to shake out insides......

Try not to destroy silver marks or if on blade keep blades to show scrapper.


[update]
Found ya a youtube video....




Be sure to let us know the weight loss after removing blade. 

How do I keep missing these?   I've been to busy to read thru everything here but overlooking this for a month is just sad.....


I think I should win.    I posted zero news stories but I posted the best news stories!   

Whoops.     I just red the description and it list everything I saw.....guess I should read the fine print before commenting.

Last auction of the month and I got nada......

15 units but over 60 people.   Was a mostly indoor facility so all those people in small hallways....took FOREVER!!  Worse, we couldn't get a good look.  Just herded thru.

First ones were horrible.  Mostly empty.  Junk.  One went for a dollar, another not a single bid.  Then a few okay ones that went for $65-$225.  Profit margin was either slim or just to much junk stuff for me.

Then some good ones.   

Janitor business: floor buffers, industrial carpet cleaners.  I was interested but held back because it was full of broken stuff and junk.  Lots of chemicals to dispose of.  Opened at five hundred and shot o $1800.
Wasn't about to drop $1800 on items I have no fast outlet for and would have had to rent the 20x20 (no way I was getting it clean in 48hrs) and rent a bid a** truck....


Construction unit:  really wanted this one.  Had a set of 18" Mercedes rims.  New cabinets.  Only went for $225.  I stopped because.....I don't know why.  lol.    For some reason I just wasn't feeling it once the bidding got going.  Money maker but a lot of specific items.  Hard sells for me.  And everything was huge and I don't have space for things I'm not sure of outlet to sell.
Was thinking of Travis on this unit.  Had a double oven in it, used.   Overheard a guy telling wife "that alone is $2000".  Yeah, good luck with that. 

Last unit I was pissed.  Saw a file safe hidden.  Probably papers but...?   Saw a couple jewelry boxes.  Bunch of stuff that's my kind of thing to sell. 
Small hall, lots of people.  I got ushered down.   Told him I was interested i want to be up front but was told to go to end of hall.  I'm standing there and everyone is noisy and I'm trying to bid, can't hear bids, suddenly its sold.  I'm like WTF?!    Really pissed.

Oh well, my shoulder is killing me.  Probably shouldn't be cleaning out units anyway......

To answer a few of your questions.....

I'm here because its just a bunch of us talking.  With he exception of Travis, no one has an agenda.  Swap'n ideas and story's and finds.....

I don't use ST because:

1) your blog entries are usually useless.   They don't give any information.  They are opinion pieces.  I understand.  Hard topics when laws vary from city to city, state to state.   I do enjoy reading them.  They are amusingly written, in a good way.   I just pop'd over and red the stolen prop and gun ones.  Didnt answer the question you proposed.  I didnt finish and know the answer.   Your fault?  Absolutely not.  How could you possibly answer those questions nation wide?    But it was a waste for me to read, info was wrong for my state....


Here?  We have discussion on those topics and get feedback.  Correct answers?  It's the Internet, who knows?  But get you thinking and researching to add content.

2) ST has no auctions in my area of hundreds of facilities and a population of many million.
The dates you have next to the facilities I'm attending this week are wrong.

Again, I totally don't blame you.   Facilities here change dates constantly. No way your keeping up uless facility has ability  (and does) update your site themselves [I want compensation for this idea ]
Ex: called place two weeks ago, Are you still holding auction today? 
No, it moved to next Monday. 
(Monday) auction today?
Nope, moved to Friday
(Friday) auction?
No, you missed it.  We had yesterday.

Pretty much the only way you would of known it was going on is if you had gone to the auctioneers other auctions......

Last two thoughts:
I won't use online auctions until people learn to use a camera and something towards capturing your subject matter.   Four blurry pictures and one from ten feet away with shadow across door just doesn't cut it.  Bidding is risky enough.

I have no problem with you or ST.  But the unprofessionalism of your comments I have a problem with.  I don't do business with people that talks down about competitors.  I've addressed this to Travis in the past also.  He has apologized and removed his comments.  I think removing your rants is not a bad thing.  Its to your benefit that he removes them, IMHO
..............

Okay, just went back to read over this to see if my rambling made sense....not really but also noticed it sounded like I was smashing your site.  Not my intention.   Meant to be like constructive criticism.

 Just say'n.



Also, sorry for typo's and dang autocorrect.....it was a rant, typed fast on ipad.  To lazy to go fix.  Deal with it.