-->Have magnet will travel! I did some sleuthing in the one and only Shopping Mall. The big-time Jewellers (Zales, Hannoush), said they didn't have any sterling silver. One helpful sales girl explained that it was too difficult to work with because it 'went black'. That's strange, considering the amount of antique sterling silver around, and considering how soft silver is. I wonder if they are clued in to what's going on. I visited JC Penney, Jones Store, and Dillard's. I demonstrated how the sterling silver trinkets jumped out of the rack as I waved the magnet past them. The sales girls knew nothing about silver, except that one of them knew about the '92.5 thing' and that there would be a 92.5 stamp inside the trinket if it was genuine 92.5 silver, which was somehow different from sterling silver; whereupon I discovered the 92.5 stamp in the sterling silver trinket (a tiny car). At that time, a policeman was also hovering around glaring at me rather suspiciously. I left the car trinket with the sales woman, who would 'get back to me later in the week'. I felt that they saw me as a troublemaker, and could I just go away. At another store, the sales lady said 'did I have a problem wih the price', and 'I believe what our suppliers tell us'. There was never any realization at any of the stores that there was something wrong with possibly selling base metal items as $20 to $40 precious metal items. None of them could exclain the magnetic properties of their items. I did however notice that the sales people outnumbered the customers by about two to one in this 'recovering recovery'. (me and about three others). Two years ago the Mall would have been full up with bustling shoppers.