| We have several examples of people believing that "Tahitian black" means "Tahitian pearls: and there is a rampant use of the phrase on eBay. I have seen it dozens of times just looking down the main lists.
If someone is going to shop for pearls on eBay, they need to know all those little tricks. Like "very round" means eggy shaped. 8-9mm ,means 7-8mm with one to three pearls on the strand actually at 8.5. "Knotted with silk" means nylon was used. 18 ct gold has a very small "gp" in the description. "Natural" means they aren't faux.
Hmm, wonder what I missed.............
After a couple of years of sharing, we still have less than 1/2 dozen reliable Ebay sellers - using the word "reliable" loosely. One of them is slipping off our list for delivery problems......
We still like to look though.
Did you catch the thread today where the seller claimed he had natural American pearls, 110 of them? Only problem was it was the very same pearls on a card that US Pearl sold at the gem show. Gemgeek actually got a photo of it at the gem show while the seller said they were in a safe for years. Turns out that seller was lied to, but most of them do it on purpose.
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