Trading in scrap silver

I’d been meaning to send in my scrap sterling silver to Monsterslayer for a while now, but was kind of intimidated so I kept putting it off. (I’m easily intimidated, what can I say?) I finally needed to put a large order in, so I went around collecting all the teeny pieces of unusable wire from the wire containers and the drawer on my workdesk.

The guidelines for submitting scrap are easy enough to follow. I ran a magnet through to make sure no needles or other things had fallen in, fished out a few bits of copper, and pulled out all the chains and actual jewelry bits. The scrap and chains/bits were each double bagged. I typed out the new order, printed it and put it in a Priority Mail box with the scrap, tossed in a few pieces of bubble wrap, and sent it off.

Yesterday I got a call from a very nice lady who verified the new order, got my credit card info, and placed the order. Monsterslayer accepts scrap sterling for 75% of market value (less if you want cash back), and we got nearly $60 in credit! I’m kinda excited about that even in principle, because I never thought I’d have enough scrap to trade in, nonetheless that much. Whoa. Made the order much more affordable, too.

Now if I can only figure out how to recycle scrap copper…