In fact, visitors to a typical jewelry shop in India or China likely will not find a fixed price on the items they want to buy, as they would in say New York City.

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Etsy sent Lisa Jacobs an email asking her to answer a list of questions about how she made and shipped the jewelry in her shop, says the 34-year-old who lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Business thrived as families came in to shop to purchase the heavy jewelry offered as bridal dowry, a practice common in many parts of India.

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They ranged from a rural family farmer who said he makes 90% of his money through Internet sales to two women who met via their virtual Etsy stores and eventually launched a brick-and-mortar jewelry shop together in St.

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The fragrances are sold from two boutiques: one in Paris, a stone's throw from Rosenthal's jewelry shop, a second on the lower floor of Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan.

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That death in a dispute outside a Muslim-owned jewelry shop sparked several days of killings and the destruction of mosques and Muslim homes.

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The neighborhood men either were in business for themselves the owners of the local candy store, grocery store, jewelry store, dress shop, furniture shop, service station, and delicatessen, or the proprietors of tiny industrial job shops over by the Newark-Irvington line, or self-employed plumbers, electricians, housepainters, and boilermen or were foot-soldier salesmen like my father, out every day in the city streets and in people's houses, peddling their wares on commission.

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