| There is no standard pearl grading system accepted yet.
That's fact. The following is my take on it...
Now, it is easy to like even very lowly pearls as long as you don't know what better ones look like and even after. If this wasn't true, there would be far fewer pearls around and Ebay sellers with 0.99$ strands would never get one bit of positive feedback, let alone thousands.
To know how the goods of one shop compare with the next it'll take the feedback of a buyers who has seen both and knows pretty well what they were looking at (especially, treatment, but also valuation). Rather tall order, although it does happen esp. when the first product is returned. Gross misrepresentation gets killed, but treatments remain a problem even then... among others.
My 2c
Last edited by Valeria101; 03-20-2007 at 12:15 PM.
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