[jshepherd]

One of the things that has always really irked me are the sellers that create a giant facade of credibility. We used to talk about a lot of the eBay sellers who created their own gem laboratory to back up their eBay claims. There was one seller in particular called DDD (Direct Diamond Depot) that created a "gem lab" called GGG (Gemological Grading Group) which provided gem-lab certificates with values such as $4900 for a $2 freshwater stretchy bracelet that DDD sold over and over again for about $50. The JVC actually sent those guys a warning and I got a nasty call from the owner of that scam ring for telling people about it here. If you do some research online you will see that the scoundrel who runs the place (a guy by the name of Constantine) threatens people over justified negative and neutral feedback.

Btw, the GGG had an address here in LA. It was a location in the jewelry district. One day I decided to stop by as I was in the same building. It was a sort of software store.

There are a lot of other sellers that use those fake lab certs. UGL is a bad one. I would venture to say nearly any three-letter lab touted on eBay that is not GIA or EGL is a scam.