My Small Biz: Mays Landing it sells gold, silver jewelry at Hamilton Mall

We sell gold, bracelets, diamonds and earrings, and we offer custom repair of jewelry. We do customized work examined as engraving and watch repair service offer, too, examined the watch as fixing or changing the battery.
We have charm bracelets and necklaces, crosses, gemstones, engagement rings and wedding bands.
We have mostly gold jewelry,schmuck, and about 30 percent of our inventory is silver jewelry.
Some of the most popular items are shamballa bracelets made from rhinestones - from $ 30 to $ 70th
Many girls like to wear belly rings these days. They can be plain or they might have decorations on them. We can engrave them right away, but we do not do the piercing here.
Most of the time we can repair jewelry right away, too.
Necklaces quietly sell well and schmuck online, we carry a large variety. We have earrings for any age, from small children on up
Demand for jewelry has kept going down since the recession. It has not come back yet. The jewelry industry is bigger than the auto industry, but no one gives it any attention and it's losing jobs, too. Things are pretty tough nowadays.
If gold was about $ 300 in ounce like it was 10 years ago, things would be better. Now it's more than ounce to $ 1.600.
An item we used to sell for  schmuck feichtinger,$ 30 now we have to charge almost $ 100
Entry: I was a very good jewelry sales person in South Carolina. My brother used to work at a jewelry store in this Hamilton Mall and we got an offer to have a kiosk here. We put $ 8,000 down and we have five partners. I bought everybody out and took over the business myself.
I took the jewelry store, called Gold Plus, and I built up the value of it to $ 25,000, working very hard, paar ringe, day and night. Then I bought the store my brother used to work in, giving me a regular storefront.
The mall store that wanted back from me and they took the lease back and gave me the second kiosk. The rent was pretty high at the regular store, $ 2,500 at that time, now about $ 4.100, and I was not making it. It's especially hard with this economy and times being so tough.