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Priority Access to 20th... haven't we seen this before? Is that how the Birthday will roll? Repeats? Also Dave, just now: "Going to leave those last ones. Don't want to over sell it" 😶🤣

I saw that, quite by chance. My initial response was "ooh, finally a proper dark opal" and then I saw the treatment and my subsequent response was also along the "WTF" lines. It's almost as if whoever's in charge now hasn't a clue about their brands or history. As you say, Lorique used to be...

Totally. Said before, I think by you or someone else, but even the Cavill & Co pieces are a bit "meh" in the quality of some of the stones (large doesn't always mean beautiful by itself) and the designs really are "plonk in cast basket with tiny diamonds". Tiny diamonds, even D Flawless, are...

To be fair, most of the dealers on DRD aren't into gems specifically. A couple like jewellery but I seem to remember that the only dealer who knew his stuff in that way was Ian Towning. There's definitely a completely separate market out there and some jewellery makers (other than Susie...

Crikey. Another "bargain" (image 1) I expect - didn't see the spiel - for another item where similar is available at a website price for less (image 2)...

Another utterly flipping ridiculous price comparison from Carr. Comparison made by her to image 1. a) It's a Christie's auction lot from 2021 - not a retail offering. b) It realised approx EUR5,000 hammer price. c) It's a 1970s Boucheron piece (part of a set, with earrings etc) d) It's set in...

It's this type of worker ant, blinkered corporate mindset that, in the most egregious extreme examples, can cause real human harm. Some responses given by individuals to questions at at the Post Office Horizon enquiry sound eerily similar in tone!

Apologies to Ant7t. Although I know that Autocorrect is as dumb as soup, I missed this one. 🙄🤣

Yep - and label it "AAA". The integrity of Gem Collector has been eroded over the last two years faster than a five year old spinning a bar of soap under a running tap. They had a baroque pearl on this week (image attached). Now, for my money, I was instantly all over it when I saw this - my...

Yep. £149 flipping quid for this. And boy, those wings in fluorite will break as soon as you sneeze.

I might be reading this incorrectly but this Gemporia response implies that a repaired item could end up having even less than 6 months warranty, after a repair?!

Yep, it's all BS. Gemporia formal response to a customer calling out their silver gram price comparison just about confirms it because we all know that this is not a one-off presentation error...

You don't need to feel regretful, at all. As Always Complaining has said on this thread and I, with others, have said over the last six or seven years on other threads, the pieces you have now should be enjoyed. Those to whom you leave them will not care one jot about Gemporia, only the memory...

Setting aside personal aesthetics on what Gemporia is flogging as "jade", the issue for me remains one of trust. As a hobbyist and from whom quite large sums of money are being asked by TGGC on trust, it matters little what subtleties have been nuanced into the language of gemstones in the...

I know less about make up than I do about the mating habits of the Lord Howe Island Tree Lobsters but, for sure, there has been chatter on QVC forums for years about China, animal testing and the "bunny mark" - way before Visage appeared. Not once have I seen KE or her "bestie" Hattie mention...

Yep and at a 94% saving to you, guvnor.

Dear God, that's awful

As much as I think that the whole chakra thing - and it's association with lumps of rock - is a big pile of hooey, with Jainey and Lynn I gave them a lot of slack because I felt that at least their drivel came from a warm place. Putting Lindsey Carr and Susie Menham together exposes the...

If Gemporia did a Dating App... - Image 1 (Little Britain, Andy Pipkin): Here's our man. - Image 2 (British model, David Gandy): Here's the overpriced trash you can get elsewhere.

While auction estimates are always "realistic" or there to incentivise bidding, a good deal of these look like scrap start prices. A lot of the rings are clusters of small stones, so not ideal as "breakers" for the gemstones themselves. As recoveringgemaholic has said, that Lorique Kunzite is...