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Aw heck. Cheap pearls and Chinwag. My nightmare...time to go back out in the sun with a drink. Susie Menham: "Even if you don't believe in well-being, my necklace will grow your hair back, give you an underwear model's body and turn you into a God in the bedroom" (obviously not the last bit...

Final price...I obviously know nothing (virtually no colour play):

The listing shows an Gemporia app screenshot taken at 19:16, with a price of over £7k and an active "Add To Basket" button. I'd conclude that this was taken during the live auction of the item and before the price was crashed. The listing details explicitly point you to that screenshot. They...

If you're looking to shift some that you don't wear anymore, best place is online. Just not sure a high street firm would either be interested or be fair on value - even scrap. Have a look on eBay for examples of sold and current auctions to give you an idea of price. A 'Gems TV' search...

Gaslighting (sorry, I meant sales technique) about heavy gram weights in jewellery, filled rubies, average jaspers, agates etc, at stupid prices is one thing. This type of utter BS does get my goat a little more. Does Steve have a fix for Short Memory Syndrome? 40 blooming years ago, Audrey...

It should be 'termeric' but, lack of basic spelling skill and a few erroneous pronunciations by, say, a TV chef cemented this way of saying the word. It is wrong but like Gemporia gold weight in rings, it's become the norm to say either. You just get slammed for being elitist if you point it...

We just had a President Biden moment! LC reading this loooong article out loud but, when she got to "known locally as...", you could almost hear her biological computer fan spinning fast and then glitching. She literally skipped over the word "Natonya" with an unintelligible mumble. Not even...

Oh, cripes! Jim said last night that one of the showcases on this "BIG" weekend coming up was "Naturally Coloured Pearls". Might be wrong but time was when I think Alex intimidated that Hell would freeze over before anything other than seawater cultured pearls not messed about with would...

"Oh my gosh, this is really heavy" (holding the pendant on a thickly-woven chain). "It's like the Diana thing" (oh, FGS!) "Well over two and a half grams of silver" 🤔🤔🤔🙄

Bought one too, out of curiosity, from TJC after the Charles & Colvard copyright/licence restrictions/IP expired and in a "smackdown". As to "genuine"? As I understand it, no natural moissanite in sufficient crystal sizes to be faceted has ever been found. All jewellery has lab-created "stones".

One thing has changed quite recently...an embargo on any "wheel hours" except at the start of the day at 7am. Why would that be? Has it been applied to the Jeff weekend hours too?

Not surprised with that shape, especially if from China, but very odd. Rose quartz isn't rare. Perhaps Kimbie 'objets' 🙄 aren't created with minerals sourced by our intrepid explorers. At £199 for a crudely cut chunk of cloudy, filled (and probably dyed, then), I've just got two words for...

I thought same - just a fixative. Apparently not. The Perfume Society 🤷‍♂️ says "Chemist Gunther Ohloff once described ambergris as 'humid, earthy, faecal, marine, algoid, tobacco-like, sandalwood-like, sweet, animal, musky and radiant'. Others comment that it can smell a bit like the wood in...

I agree. Tonight is, so far, a good example. A Comeria Garnet showcase (few, tiny & some unnecessarily included). I know that Jim had these on first but definitely the last few not worth setting into jewellery. Couple of years ago, these were impressive. And a Padparadscha Sapphire showcase...

Hattie yammering on about the blue baroques. Fine but constantly referring to the Sea of Cortez and the Paua Iris blue...ok...and this strand has an origin of...

The other difference was that he sat down to present (albeit in a chair that squeaked on the floor as he shuffled back into position 😁). Hard to articulate why, but it made a huge difference to the ambience. Emily's all about the health thing on standing up, although that does remind me of the...

Exactly that, last night. Chatted about stuff (books, holidays, his kids etc), got all the requests done with a few demo requests, no hard sell. (Jim has a developed a habit of deciding himself when to show a request or get a demo request, sometimes even picking an item himself first, which I...

Nick on GC tonight - and tomorrow. Gosh, it's night & day compared to usual. Like a radio station. On in the background, occasionally take a peak when something sounds interesting but carry on cooking. Just like the old days.

And to think that the on-screen gram weight is an average across the manufactured sizes for the item code, I'd hate to be a L/M size! Not illegal of course but this type of selling technique ("shystering" as TMWNN describes it) borders on true gaslighting.

Lindsey: Oh my gosh!!! It looks like pink Jadeite. Me: Oh yes. Didn't know could get pink. Lindsey: Look how it fluoresces. Me: Oh my!!! Included as it is and in the glare of the light box. Wow!!! Lindsey: Incredibly rare, incredibly sought after!!! Me: Oh!!! I cannot wait. Please tell me...