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Metal Content of Piercing Jewelry -  amounts to: Trust a Reliable Supplier

Mill Certificates are available for the Stainless Steel parts used in the Piercing Jewelry
we sell as provide by the contractors, converters, mills, distributors and manufacturers.

Mills making stainless steels produce a large volume at each time
and that volume remains in inventory either at the steel plant or at a distributor or at some other processor.
Orders for Stainless Steel are then accepted by the mill or distributor and sent from inventory. 

Each Batch could last years.
Each batch produced by the mill may last days, weeks, months, or even years
until that batch is completely sold.
The "Mill Certificate" certifies that the material in that lot is as described.

Because there are no lot numbers or serial numbers engraved on piercing jewelry
there is no way to trace anything or know if a particular piece of jewelry is from a particular lot.
If there is no lot number engraved on your jewelry it is untraceable.
No lot number means trust your supplier.

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The majority of all piercing jewelry is made overseas and mostly from Asia.

Do not be fooled.

316L is virtually the same as 316LVM and of NO SUPERIORITY for piercing.

As an example, would it make sense to buy a car and pay a premium
because it could withstand 300 degrees below zero, instead of 200 degrees below zero?
This is in effect what the difference is for piercing: NO DIFFERENCE.

Desperate suppliers expose their RACIST prejudice
when they claim Asian stainless steel is "inferior."

Desperate Suppliers try and deceive YOU.

Watch Out.....when someone says... "cheap Asian steel"

When they spout ASTM Standards they want to confuse you
with their "pseudo" technical talk as if they had superior knowledge.
It's a technique of persuasion to win an argument and distort your thinking.
In fact, these Desperate Suppliers are not ISO Certified in the US or Europe.


Lies are meant to distort your mind's ability to see reality.

Claiming that Asian goods are not produced under ASTM standards
does not mean they do not meet standards. ATM is American.

Most industrial nations publish their own standards.
It like saying because something is measured in mm it does not meet American Standards.

When it comes to LOWER COST, Asia is a global source everyone knows that.

The cost of the stainless steel in a piercing jewelry is pennies, the rest is labor.
A barbell from Asia costs 30 cents, made in the USA it is $ 6.00.
Your subway cars are made from Asian steels and your car parts.
Boeing Dreamliner tail sections
(25%) are now MADE IN CHINA,
and are not inferior in any way. TVs, cameras, phones and computers.
How many items that we trust and use and our lives depend on.

Hold these deceivers accountable when they try to fool you.
"Accountability" means there is a price to pay.

The price is you shun them.

When suppliers lie, not including mistakes,  they should not get your future orders.
If the buck stops here, and there is no penalty for failing, it means nothing,
Without penalty "Accountability" is a joke.

A little secret:

Most all jewelry is made in Asia and then only polished and assembled here.
They then say "Made in America" which they are allowed to do.
If you import Chinese barbells and screw the balls on it is now Made in the USA.
... but they won't tell you that,
because they want to charge you more money for the same jewelry. Such Liars.

Usually sales people who use this gimmick want you to pay bigger bucks
for jewelry that is superior by the finishing, which it is, but not the steel.

Another deception is the appeal to: "Quality" above price.
You could go out of business falling for this old line.
Buying the highest quality body jewelry does not make sense if you have a business.

This is a real phone call I had with someone
who has two shops. 
It's funny how this owner failed to see that
they are successful competing against tattoo shops
but lost all their piercing business to the same shops
and blaming it on "too many Shops in the area"
 
Wes:  Hi. ----, How's business.
X:      Good. Our tattoo figures are better than last year.
Wes:  I see you haven't bought jewelry for a real long time.
X:      Yeah, we've been buying everything from --xyz--- hand polished "quality" jewelry.
Wes:   Why is that?
X:      Actually we don't buy much anymore. Last month we let our piercer go.
         Too many tattoo shops. Too much competition.

He didn't get it.
He competed in tattoo but lost his piercing business.

You know the phrase: "It's just business".
Meaning to them that it's only business to them. Friendship is second to money.

Support and deal with those who are the business.
 

The following certificates support our claim that the balls and bars are Stainless Steel 316L
are not inferior to any other 316L

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