J-Jewellery Community
Guides
Silver is treated as gold's poor relation in most Nepali shops, which is unfair to a metal that carries much of the country's ritual life. What the purity marks mean, why it tarnishes, and how to stop it.
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Nearly every Nepali household has gold it no longer wears, and most of it eventually comes back to a counter to be turned into something else. What happens to it, why the weight you get credited is lower than the weight you brought, and which deductions are fair.
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The largest single gold purchase most Nepali families ever make, usually under time pressure and often with several opinions in the room. A practical sequence, from setting a budget to what to check before you leave the shop.
Market
A Nepali jewellery business does not have twelve equal months. It has a handful of intense weeks decided by an almanac, and a long quiet stretch when nobody marries at all. What that does to workshops, stock and lead times.
Market
By the time a shop in New Road opens its shutters, the day's price has already been decided somewhere else. A plain-language account of the chain that runs from an overnight trading screen to a rate board in Asan.
Guides
Why there is no rate on a Saturday, why the number changes before the shop opens, and what the published figure is quietly leaving out. A short guide to the most-read number in the trade.
Guides
The rate board explains perhaps seventy per cent of what you hand over. The rest is labour, loss and tax, and it is the part nobody puts on a board outside. A line-by-line walk through a jewellery bill.
Guides
Three words do most of the work in a Nepali gold shop, and most buyers only half know what they mean. What the grades actually describe, why nobody makes a bangle out of the purest gold on the board, and what a hallmark does and does not promise.
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Every rate board in the country quotes two numbers for the same metal, and the gap between them is not a discount. Here is the conversion every buyer should be able to do in their head, and the two places where a bill most often goes wrong.