What kind of pearls - Pearl Chic Party on Facebook

[Pearls13]

Hi all, curious what kind of pearls you may think these are.

 

[Lagoon Island Pearls]

Freshwater pearls. The black ones are dyed.

You can easily identify FWP by their lavender and peach colors.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

All cultured Chinese freshwater pearls. The 3 black ones and the 1 gray one are dyed. The others are natural colors.
edit: Dave beat me to it!

 

[Lagoon Island Pearls]

I have cross-posted this from the other thread:

Do we have any certified parties here that could determine by a picture alone if pearls are authentic akoya? Or even could have a sample sent to them?

The mere fact they are mismatched and include dyed ones suggest pearl party source.

Pearl party price ... 13 x 30 = 390 dollars. In reality, the entire lot is worth under 10 dollars.

 

[Pearls13]

I have cross-posted this from the other thread:



The mere fact they are mismatched and include dyed ones suggest pearl party source.

Pearl party price ... 13 x 30 = 390 dollars. In reality, the entire lot is worth under 10 dollars.

More like 36 x 15-23 = WAY too much... Have since been blocked by the owner of the company after messaging in regards to their advertisement stating authentic akoya pearls. Yea that wont happen again lol

Edit: I have since been able to apeak with her.

 

[Lagoon Island Pearls]

More like 36 x 15-23 = WAY too much... Have since been blocked by the owner of the company after messaging in regards to their advertisement stating authentic akoya pearls. Yea that wont happen again lol

Some party hosts play ignorant (which does not exempt them from the law) but you have a case for fraud, especially since the person who sold them lied, then deliberately blocked you.

It's difficult to litigate over 500 dollars, but considering thousands of consumers being bilked, the top of the pyramid is making a fortune from this sham.

The best thing to do under the circumstance is post your experiences for all to see. Some may come to their senses by shame, but sooner or later the law will step in and pressure the ring leaders to force disclosure and safe handling procedures.

 

[Pearls13]

Some party hosts play ignorant (which does not exempt them from the law) but you have a case for fraud, especially since the person who sold them lied, then deliberately blocked you.

It's difficult to litigate over 500 dollars, but considering thousands of consumers being bilked, the top of the pyramid is making a fortune from this sham.

The best thing to do under the circumstance is post your experiences for all to see. Some may come to their senses by shame, but sooner or later the law will step in and pressure the ring leaders to force disclosure and safe handling procedures.

She replied to me early this morning after the initial message telling me she's taken to me many jewelers and they are absolute genuine akoya pearls. Then she sent another message telling me to send her the name and number of the certified jeweler i took them to. I couldnt go back to the original one i went to this weekend so I went to 3 different ones today (including a national chain jeweler) and all said the same. They were freshwater cultured and likely dyed for the colored ones. I gathered the names and numbers for all i visited today and when i went to send the info to her I get an error that she's no longer accepting messages. The party store page doesn't have any "corporate" contact info just the emails for the consultants (about 8 of them). I had to search the public records to see who even owned the company to contact. It was pointed out in the other thread that one of pictures on their page wasn't even an akoya and furthermore isn't their picture.

 

[Lagoon Island Pearls]

Don't be afraid to post links to sites which you believe are fraudulent. Other than how much money you paid, there's no need to comment, but direct links to sites allow others to see for themselves.

 

[Pearls13]

This one in particular is Pearl Chic which is rather new. The filed their LLC late 2016.

http://pearlchic.mysimplestore.com/

 

[Lagoon Island Pearls]

She replied to me early this morning after the initial message telling me she's taken to me many jewelers and they are absolute genuine akoya pearls. Then she sent another message telling me to send her the name and number of the certified jeweler i took them to.

She lied. Not just about the pearls, but about the jewelers too. There's not a single legitimate pearl specialist in world who would suggest those are akoyas. Akoyas have shell bead nuclei. FWP do not. A child could tell the difference.

In any correspondence in the future, you may cite this thread (and others).

 

[Lagoon Island Pearls]

This one in particular is Pearl Chic which is rather new. The filed their LLC late 2016.

http://pearlchic.mysimplestore.com/

Not only a liar, but also using Josh's image without permission to misrepresent a product. The dark shell is a black lipped oyster from French Polynesia. The pearls were grown on the Kamoka Farm and are superior quality compared to the third rate trinkets from pearl parties.

 

[jshepherd]

This is actually pretty funny. Apparently several people have been complaining about Pearl Chic on their Facebook page and the owner just assumes I am creating fake names or profiles to harass them. I did post today telling them the pearls on their Facebook page are freshwater and not akoya. This email just came in from Teresa Vitantonio. You may get a kick out of it, lol

The person lying and deceiving all these people on Facebook is now threatening me, LOL!

[h=3]Teresa Vitantonio <tvitt2011@gmail.com>[/h]	1:33 PM (4 hours ago)		​
to me

Hi Jeremy,
I am the owner of Pearl Chic. One of my consultants notified me that you reached out and sent an email from this email. You also went on my company's page and spoke falsely about my company's product. Someone of your nature should be very familiar with harassment, Libel, and Slander. Our pearls are 100% Akoya and have been taken and appraised by many different jewelers. Even though you got you're certificate online, I would still assume you had enough intelligence to know that you are putting your credibility on the line making statements that are false. You are not dealing with a mom and pop shop that you can scare. I am extremely wealthy as well and my family owns a law firm, so I am actually very familiar with the law. You are on on a social media portal breaking the law by harassing my contractors and posting false accusations on the internet about my company. Not to mention making up false profiles to do it as well. I'd also assume someone of your nature would have better things to do with their time, but apparently not. I'm assuming your similar pearl business must be hurting, since you have all this free time on your hands to harass women. If the FTC wants to contact me, they are free to speak with my lawyer. As for you, if I come across one more account of libel or harassment from you under all your falsified names, you will be hearing from my layers.

Thank You.

 

[jshepherd]

I couldnt go back to the original one i went to this weekend so I went to 3 different ones today (including a national chain jeweler) and all said the same. They were freshwater cultured and likely dyed for the colored ones. I gathered the names and numbers for all i visited today and when i went to send the info to her I get an error that she's no longer accepting messages.

Teresa Vitantonio <tvitt2011@gmail.com>

You're welcome

 

[moneymeister]

This is actually pretty funny. Apparently several people have been complaining about Pearl Chic on their Facebook page and the owner just assumes I am creating fake names or profiles to harass them. I did post today telling them the pearls on their Facebook page are freshwater and not akoya. This email just came in from Teresa Vitantonio. You may get a kick out of it, lol

The person lying and deceiving all these people on Facebook is now threatening me, LOL!

[h=3]Teresa Vitantonio <tvitt2011@gmail.com>[/h]	1:33 PM (4 hours ago)		​
to me

Hi Jeremy,
I am the owner of Pearl Chic. One of my consultants notified me that you reached out and sent an email from this email. You also went on my company's page and spoke falsely about my company's product. Someone of your nature should be very familiar with harassment, Libel, and Slander. Our pearls are 100% Akoya and have been taken and appraised by many different jewelers. Even though you got you're certificate online, I would still assume you had enough intelligence to know that you are putting your credibility on the line making statements that are false. You are not dealing with a mom and pop shop that you can scare. I am extremely wealthy as well and my family owns a law firm, so I am actually very familiar with the law. You are on on a social media portal breaking the law by harassing my contractors and posting false accusations on the internet about my company. Not to mention making up false profiles to do it as well. I'd also assume someone of your nature would have better things to do with their time, but apparently not. I'm assuming your similar pearl business must be hurting, since you have all this free time on your hands to harass women. If the FTC wants to contact me, they are free to speak with my lawyer. As for you, if I come across one more account of libel or harassment from you under all your falsified names, you will be hearing from my layers.

Thank You.

This is funny. Irony and Karma are friends.

 

[jshepherd]

I am really not sure what certificate I got online either

I've been dealing with attorneys for the past week for some other battle I am getting ready to take on. This was the comedy break I needed today!

Can't wait to hear from her "layers" too.

 

[Marianne]

Still has photos stolen from Josh on her website

 

[moneymeister]

There is one pearl party "jewel" that is selling freshwater akoya and faith healing as a 2-fer. Have had several people show up and message behind the scene to make sure the lady is a liar. Below, a sample:

"Do most of these people who have these parties what type of crap did they go through to operate? One lady claimed she had to get an international fishing liscense , bunch paper work before she could start up. She claimed it cost her around $10 grand to start up.
I only ask because she is also going around preaching about the Bible , then doing parties of course."

I just don't know where to start sometimes.

 

[Lagoon Island Pearls]

I am extremely wealthy as well and my family owns a law firm, so I am actually very familiar with the law. You are on on a social media portal breaking the law by harassing my contractors and posting false accusations on the internet about my company. Not to mention making up false profiles to do it as well. I'd also assume someone of your nature would have better things to do with their time, but apparently not. I'm assuming your similar pearl business must be hurting, since you have all this free time on your hands to harass women. If the FTC wants to contact me, they are free to speak with my lawyer. As for you, if I come across one more account of libel or harassment from you under all your falsified names, you will be hearing from my layers.

You know they're liars when they say "so I'm actually very familiar". If it were true, why would they say... actually? If they knew the law and had lawyers, they'd say something to the effect... I have retained my family lawyer and you will forward all correspondence to them them directly. Any lawyer learns in the first year of law school to NEVER allow their clients to make ambiguous proxy statements on their behalf.

Likewise, in the absence of evidence, accusatorily leveled some serious charges towards you, which a lawyer would never advise a client to do.

Anything from a lawyers office MUST be notarized and true copies of that attestation are distributed to all parties accordingly. I spent ten years in the US Ninth Circuit as a representative in a class action law suit over an oil spill. More than half of the mountain of paperwork (an entire file room) were attestations, certifying courses of action.

Some pearl party consultants are ignoramuses but quite frankly, the owner of Pearl Chic is a bold faced liar who openly directs her consultants to lie as well.

 

[JerseyPearl]

Wow...just WOW.

 

[jshepherd]

You know they're liars when they say "so I'm actually very familiar". If it were true, why would they say... actually? If they knew the law and had lawyers, they'd say something to the effect... I have retained my family lawyer and you will direct all correspondence to them them directly. Any lawyer learns in the first year of law school to NEVER allow their clients to make ambiguous proxy statements on their behalf.

Likewise, in the absence of evidence, accusatorily leveled some serious charges towards you, which a lawyer would never advise a client to do.

Anything from a lawyers office MUST be notarized and true copies of that attestation are distributed to all parties accordingly. I spent ten years in the US Ninth Circuit as a representative in a class action law suit over an oil spill. More than half of the mountain of paperwork (an entire file room) were attestations, certifying courses of action.

Some pearl party consultants are ignoramuses but quite frankly, the owner of Pearl Chic is a bold faced liar who openly directs her consultants to lie as well.

This Teresa Vitantonio is a liar. It's unfortunate. There are some who I feel sorry for. I know they've been ripped off by some company in Asia telling them they are selling real akoya pearls in oysters. You almost have to feel sorry for them when they find out the truth. But this one ... I think she is the one convincing her "consultants" that she is telling the truth. This one actually disgusts me.