| Hi FX,
The legal language requirements are just the same in the U.S., however, as an avid jewelry shopper in both bricks-and-mortar world and online I can assure you that compared to the nonsense I have heard in actual jewelry stores, eBay is basically a haven of truth. I cannot even count how many store clerks told me with a straight face that they only sell genuine natural pearls and then whipped out some Blue Lagoon piece and even worse, Majoricas, that they assured me were cultured in the Bayuvaric Islands of Greece when I pressed for details. The infamous "sequoia pearls" are by now a classic joke, even though the lady who was trying to sell me her "genuine sequoia pearls" at one of the big department stores here in Fresno way back in 1999 or so is probably still offering akoyas with this pitch.
Zeide |