RE: gold chloride?

DEAR EPONA,
        I e-mail Rick Clayton at Rick_Clayton@engelhard.com and he gets back to me
within two hours with a quote on the quantities I want. So far I have only
bought Pt/Pd powders from him but he is known for having the best prices on
all precious metal salts. It is probably after hours now and he may or may
not be in tomorrow (Dec. 31st) but he has been very quick to respond on
normal working days. Unless you need this before Monday, Jan. 5th I would
wait until I have a quote from him. As you have seen, these prices vary
WIDELY!
                        NEW YEARS CHEERS!
                        BOB

-----Original Message-----
From: epona [mailto:acolyta@napc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:13 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Cc: epona
Subject: Re: gold chloride? (found, on ebay)

hey, look at this, kids:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3262835983

*really* old gold chloride. think it will work? what is the shelf
life of gold chloride grains?

tia,
christine

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"Crazy" is a term of art: "Insane" is a term of Law. Remember that, and
you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
      ~ Hunter S. Thompson

On Dec 30, 2003, at 1:39 PM, Steve Bell wrote:

> hey Christine,
>
> i'm not sure if anyone's sent you a link to this yet, but here you go:
>
> 3g for $70.00 with buy it now, but it doesn't seem like anyone's
> bidding, so
> you may get it for less if you're patient.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
> ViewItem&item=2976261831&category=29983
>
> cheers,
>
> steve
>
> Quoting epona <acolyta@napc.com>:
>
>> Thanks Judy, and Darryl.
>>
>> I couldn't get a human being on the phone at Engelhard. Waiting on a
>> call back from them. Spoke to a gentlemen at Goldsmith who quoted me
>> $110 per gram! When I told him I could get it for $40, he said "oh,
>> you probably spoke to one of our distributors." Yikes. I'm hoping he
>> was confused, because that's a ripoff. I ended up purchasing a gram
>> from Artcraft Chemicals (http://www.artcraftchemicals.com) in
>> Schenectady, NY for $30. The one gentleman that always seems to
>> answer the phone is friendly and prompt. I like supporting small
>> businesses. Will be keeping my eyes open on Ebay and if anyone else
>> notices a good deal, lemme know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christine
>>
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>> ~~
>> ~~~~~~~~~~
>> "Crazy" is a term of art: "Insane" is a term of Law. Remember that,
>> and
>> you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
>> ~ Hunter S. Thompson
>>
>>
>> On Dec 30, 2003, at 12:22 AM, Judy Seigel wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, epona wrote:
>>>> does anyone recommend a cheap source of gold chloride? the photo
>>>> formulary has it going for $39.95 a gram and that seems like a lot.
>>>> i
>>>> remember judy saying once there was a much more inexpensive
>>>> alternative.
>>>
>>> Last I heard Englehard in New Jersey (or possibly Goldsmith in
>>> Evanston
>>> Il, or maybe both of them) was selling it for $8/gram, tho as i
>>> recall
>>> there was some kind of minimum, possibly $100. It's been about 100
>>> years
>>> since I bought gold, so the details fade, but it's in P-F Sources and
>>> Services under Precious Metals, tho I gather that nowadays browsers
>>> are so
>>> sophisticated they probaably take you right there.
>>>
>>> Or what about E-bay? Has anyone? I know a fellow who got silver
>>> nitrate
>>> there, and someone else got uranium...
>>>
>>> Judy
>>
>>
>
>
>
Received on Tue Dec 30 17:41:18 2003