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Hello and Happy holidays. I had a parcel dispatched from TJC on Christmas day. Has anyone else had a parcel dispatched yesterday or today? If so, is your tracking from Royal Mail working?

I was a bit shocked when Lynn and Jim both said that Gemporia will not be live this Christmas day. Aren't they supposed to be 'the friend in the living room', keeping people's company? What has happened to Gemporia? It's already bad enough that their recent offerings have been appallingly bad. I...

Yes, sphalerite is also beautiful but too soft to be set into jewellery and yet they sold it in both 9k and 18k gold rings without telling customers how fragile the stone really is

Have you also noticed that Gemporia has reduced massively their 9k gold collections? Nowadays it's either silver/ gold plated or 18k gold pieces most of the time. And it's very rare to see new coloured gemstone collections in 9k gold. Perhaps Kimbie is Gemporia's future, not gemstones. If so...

Every time I tune in Cavill and Co is on. Yesterday it was about 6 hours of ridiculously expensive jewellery. Well, at least I am not spending any money with them, so I guess that's a good thing.

I have been hearing many people express their belief that Gemporia is slowly nearing its demise, but I didn't believe it until now. On their Facebook page they have posted the highlights of the first week of their birthday event and, with the exception of Ceylon Sunset Sapphires, there is no...

Yes, I am finding these events quite underwhelming. It doesn't bode well for the birthday event.

So you don't believe that rhetoric of "cutting out the middlemen" anymore?

Is it just me getting the wrong impression or Gemporia is sourcing most of what they are selling nowadays from China?

Did you see Toby, on Lindsey's show, extolling the virtues of dyed quartz and asking £149 for a necklace made of the stuff? It made me lose what I still have of trust in him as a gem expert.

I watched Lindsey this morning sell tiger's eye dyed purple and I was horrified. She kept saying how rare and difficult to source it is. Dyed tiger's eye.

Hello. Have you seen the launch of Kimbie? Is it going to replace Destello?

She said she needed to take her foot off the pedal and start working less

As I write this, Jade Troth is happily selling Type C, dyed jade. If natural jade was bad enough, dyed jade is absolutely terrible. Why does Gemporia keep buying jade, now lower quality one and not buying other gemstones? What is happening to this company?

3 hours of Jadeite in the afternoon, as you said, plus one in the morning at 9am and more to come at 8pm. And have you seen the prices? Oh my goodness! 300 pounds for beaded bracelets.

Gemporia had a good idea when they decided to send samples. I received mine with some earrings I bought. I absolutely hated the perfume and agree with Manwithnoname that it smelled like chemicals after a while. I also thought that it was too expensive at 30 quid for 50ml.

I wonder what he is buying since they haven't had new gemstone showcases in ages. Their weekend shows have been really poor of late. Beads, nuggets and jadeite. Saves me from spending money, I guess

I wonder why TJC leaves the majority of the gemstone jewellery presentations to the night time shifts. During the day, it's beauty and fashion and non-gemstone jewellery

I agree they have spent too much on jade. I tuned in early in the morning Jess Foley was selling jadeite. I switched off. Switched on again during Angeline's show and she was selling jadeite. I switched off again. Tuned in just moments ago and Hattie is selling jadeite. It's quite the obsession.

Why do you think that most of what Gemporia currently sells are beads and nuggets?