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I've already said "I offered a professional opinion, based on several decades of experience, on a 'take-it-or-leave-it' basis. You choose to leave it; that's perfectly fine by me." That WAS an agreement (for my part) to disagree. Quite how that qualifies as 'sniping' escapes me, I'm afraid.

Deary me... for someone who recently told ME not to get 'arsey' and said "As you're incapable of having a reasoned debate, you're not worth giving a detailed response to, so go and have a mardy elsewhere", I'm certainly getting a 'detailed response' now! The client I mentioned didn't come to...

Your assumption is incorrect. I'm not a regular Gemporia viewer and have no knowledge of the presentation you refer to, and I am certainly not 'getting mixed up'. The individual I mention was/is a private client of a colleague of mine, also a gemmologist and auction valuer. GIA professional...

Not true. As it happens, out of curiosity, I watched David Troth for myself, yesterday, in a lunchtime pitch with a presenter named Angeline Davies, selling two items of quartzite jade - a "red jade" bangle, and a two-dragon engraved pendant on a long beaded necklace. Both openly said that...

"That guidance does not apply to Opals because Opals are assumed to be natural unless otherwise stated". The guidance you refer to seems to be the NJA, an organisation I'm unfamiliar with, and which doesn't appear on a web search. The closest match is the National Jewellery Awards, an...

I never said gemmology is not a science. I said “gemmology is not a science that can always give answers in absolute terms”. I also never mentioned serpentine - at all. Or maw-sit-sit. Or Jasper. It might help your argument if you were able to read what is actually said, and respond to...

I agree, it’s important to remember that the two disciplines are different. It’s shocking that some people do not understand that geology and gemmology, though related, are absolutely NOT the same field of study. Your comparison fails, therefore, in that all your examples are working in...

I'm with you. She makes up stupid words like her mother, too. I remember someone once messaged in to tell her that there's no such word as 'withinside' (which there isn't - it's either 'within', or 'inside') and she replied 'Shakespeare made up words, and if it was OK for him...'. That's...

Not defending them in any way, as it's a rip-off price for a rubbish stone, but if they are advertising Queensland Opal at 2.07cts, while openly stating that Queensland Opal is an assembled stone composed of a sliver ('slither' is what snakes do) of opal with a resin backing and a Quartz cap...

Hi. I'm a gemmologist, qualified with the Gemmological Association of Great Britain over twenty years ago. I stumbled across this thread while searching for something else. It's unlikely that the Advertising Standards Authority will do anything about any such complaints, for two reasons...