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Originally Posted by mikehrz Actually, if all retailers used the same grading system, that would be extremely "usefull" - to consumers who don't want to be ripped off. It would tend to raise problems for dishonest merchants, though. |
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there is so much gray area with pearls grading it is a bad thing! It willtake a lot to create something like this then how do you go about those who "fix up" pearls by Buffing and polishing them to get a better grade? I am interested to see if all teh other possible kinks teh professionals here may see can get worked out and how does one convince others to use one system??? ow did they do it with Diaminds?? and From waht I have heard ther is still agreat degree of variance with their system as well.. what one says is a SI can be graded at another for a I2 at another jeweler...and colored Diamonds are given leeway becase the "color" Conary yellow, Blue, Purple, Pink etc.... is brilliant that is what the consumer wants.... how does one combat those??? how strict do you want to be??? What about natural pearls vs cultured? how does the type CFW, NFW, Conch, SSP etc relate to the system???? ther is about a million exceptions and possibilities I can thnk of for exceptions..... I sure do not want this task.. but would like to follow it as it deveops..
Cheers
Ash