[Tucson 2015] UK qualifications for JCK and AGTA shows

[Lillian_Docherty-Wig]

Hi Everyone

We are very lucky to be visiting Tucson this year and would love to attend the JCK and AGTA shows with our main interest in purchasing loose stones.

At present we are a small company operating in Scotland and on application we have been rejected with the request to provide a copy of our business license or sales certificate.

In the UK we don't have this. I have emailed the orgasnisers asking what would be acceptable and am awaiting their response.

Just wondering if anyone on the forum from the UK has attended and what documentation was accepted.

Many thanks for any help.
Regards
Lillian

[Robert_P_Lowe_Jr1]

Just wondering if anyone on the forum from the UK has attended and
what documentation was accepted.

I live/work in Brasil and thus do not have a USA business license or sales certificate.

For the AGTA show I just show them my Brazilian Business card and my Brazilian Picture ID (they probably accept Passports with picture also).

I registered at the AGTA show itself the first time - and then every year I just show last year's badge (it has bar code on it) and my business card - and they give me the current badge.

For the JCK show - I pre-registered online - and I sent them xerox copies (scanned) of Invoices which showed I have purchased Jewelry Items (mainly loose stones) in the past year - and a scanned copy of my Brazilian Tax ID card - and they said that I am pre-registered.

I usually don't go to the JCK show as it is quite a bit out of the way - getting there and back and managing to park occupies a good bit of your time in the day.

our main interest in purchasing loose stones.

For loose stones - you should put the GJX show on your agenda. It is right across the street from the AGTA show (which is at the convention center - downtown). It is also a "Whole Sale only" show with registration requirements - and you can pre-register online. If you get a badge from the AGTA show - then you do not need to show documents at the GJX show or at any of the other "Whole Sale only" shows.

Many of the AGTA exhibitors buy their stones from the exhibitors at the GJX show. Come by and see us in Booth # 205 - Lowe Associates - Brasil for all of the Brazilian colored stones and also Persian Turquoise.

Other good shows for loose stones are the Riverpark show and the 22nd street show

Best regards,
Robert P. Lowe Jr.

[judyh]

One of the alternate, (but unadvertised) way to get credentials is to be a student of or a graduate of a recognized gemological program. In the US, Gemological institute of america, in GB the FGA is I think the equivalent.

So if either of you are professional gemologists, that should work as well.

You can also contact an exhibiting vendor that you know and ask for help with credientials.

Judy Hoch, G.G.