Jade Troth is back

[TheManWithNoName]

I didn't but know what you mean. Sample images attached from their current stock online of their platinum or 18K range. All have black inclusions, which may be smaller in some than others but you can't "unsee" them.

Not an emerald specialist but I think that there's some truth to the claim that an emerald's "jardin" is part of its charm. However, I wouldn't want to spend four figures on these, however competitively priced. I have a comparatively small 2ct Zambian in 18K from The Outlet that has no black in it. You can get large eye clean emeralds with what the GIA classifies as "insignificant" clarity enhancement but for eye-watering costs and certainly not from Gemporia. You can also get GIA-certified "moderate" enhanced 5ct emeralds set into jewellery for around $8,000.

So I'd probably say that these are expensive at £3500.

Another example of Gemporia's latest trend of thinking that big carat weight = Lorique or high-end stone.

I think those Emerald's are ugly personally (I think Rubies and Emeralds are massively overrated as stones anyway - I'd far rather have a nice Garnet over a Ruby and a Diopside or Tourmaline over an Emerald).

I've never thought much of the quality of Gemporia's emeralds anyway. Even the 'Minas Gerais' and 'Panshir' Emeralds that Jake hyped up as being their best they'd ever had, were average at best in my opinion.

The only Emeralds they've had that I thought looked really nice were the Ethiopian Emeralds. Really clean. Really strong colour. The prices for the first batch they had were really good too considering the quality of the stones. They hiked the price massively though on the 2nd batch they had in.

 

[Ant7t]

How about these acrylic beads or toffee gumballs, both for less than £5 of your Earth pounds?!

Be careful you don't eat the beads and thread the gumballs

 

[Battiola73]

Be careful you don't eat the beads and thread the gumballs

We call the gob stoppers. A few presenters could make good use of them

 

[Ant7t]

We call the gob stoppers. A few presenters could make good use of them

I call them gob stoppers too. They're huge They were a 'thing' when I was a child, so they were huger then

 

[Jojo1]

I didn't but know what you mean. Sample images attached from their current stock online of their platinum or 18K range. All have black inclusions, which may be smaller in some than others but you can't "unsee" them.

Not an emerald specialist but I think that there's some truth to the claim that an emerald's "jardin" is part of its charm. However, I wouldn't want to spend four figures on these, however competitively priced. I have a comparatively small 2ct Zambian in 18K from The Outlet that has no black in it. You can get large eye clean emeralds with what the GIA classifies as "insignificant" clarity enhancement but for eye-watering costs and certainly not from Gemporia. You can also get GIA-certified "moderate" enhanced 5ct emeralds set into jewellery for around $8,000.

So I'd probably say that these are expensive at £3500.

All of these except the one on the lower left make me drool. I just love emeralds.i got a 3.5ct from them for £550 and i’m happy with it. Not the Cartier we dream of but you can see it’s a nice quality emerald. Etheopian were cheap initially but light like the colombians of late. The Afghanistan ones looked mike kryptonite! I like Zambian and Brazilian best.

 

[Deasmum]

Someone messaged DT while he was on air to say that her heart was pounding off her chest as she prepared to buy a jade bangle. Is this normal?

 

[Ant7t]

Someone messaged DT while he was on air to say that her heart was pounding off her chest as she prepared to buy a jade bangle. Is this normal?

It's a bit over the top. Oooooo, I'm having a funny turn coz I'm buying a bit of rock.

It still amazes me how a torch helps sell things.



Are they serious? A £399 item and someone is buying six??

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Someone messaged DT while he was on air to say that her heart was pounding off her chest as she prepared to buy a jade bangle.

They get some bizarre messages when DT is on - usually fawning, in a very OTT manner, over whatever he's flogging. They always seem to say "sent 10 seconds ago" or other similar, extremely quick time too.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence though............

 

[TheManWithNoName]

It's a bit over the top. Oooooo, I'm having a funny turn coz I'm buying a bit of rock.

It still amazes me how a torch helps sell things.

To be fair, I bought two pieces of Troth's bird s**t grey Jadeite once.

I dangled one from Portland Bill, took a photo, put it on eBay, and I got four times what I paid for it.

When I sell the second one, I'm going to go one further by dangling it from Eddystone Lighthouse. I'm hoping to get six times what I paid for it on that occasion.

 

[rubia]

They get some bizarre messages when DT is on - usually fawning, in a very OTT manner, over whatever he's flogging. They always seem to say "sent 10 seconds ago" or other similar, extremely quick time too.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence though............

Of course it is.

 

[Jojo1]

How good is it not to have any Jade this week?

 

[TheManWithNoName]

How good is it not to have any Jade this week?

Pearl overload instead.

 

[rubia]

Pearl overload instead.

****** hell really?

 

[Deasmum]

Pearl overload instead.

And today Kimbie overload. Even Toby will be selling Kimbie at 7pm

 

[Jojo1]

And today Kimbie overload. Even Toby will be selling Kimbie at 7pm

It’s just for this week I think.

 

[Ant7t]

How good is it not to have any Jade this week?

I saw it (without him) on JM today.

 

[TheManWithNoName]

And today Kimbie overload. Even Toby will be selling Kimbie at 7pm

Yeah it's on a lot this week because it's the one year 'birthday' of Kimbie.

Unlike Jade, which has been flooding our screens for about 4 years. Pearls seem to be the new Jadeite too. No doubt we'll be seeing those forever more too.

It just shows that you have to take what Gemporia say with a pinch of salt. Charlie Barron claimed that he was going because Pearls were becoming harder and harder to obtain - and yet since he's gone, Gemporia seem to have more pearls than ever before.

 

[Jojo1]

Yeah it's on a lot this week because it's the one year 'birthday' of Kimbie.

Unlike Jade, which has been flooding our screens for about 4 years. Pearls seem to be the new Jadeite too. No doubt we'll be seeing those forever more too.

It just shows that you have to take what Gemporia say with a pinch of salt. Charlie Barron claimed that he was going because Pearls were becoming harder and harder to obtain - and yet since he's gone, Gemporia seem to have more pearls than ever before.

Cheaper freshwater that take less time to grow and have no place as luxury items. They probably didn’t take the same production hit that sea pearls did during Covid. Gemporia are flogging them as a gap filler at high prices.

They will have big trouble with Akoya which are sea/ considered luxury. Vietnam produces a significant proportion of those now as there is a disease impacting production in Japan, and apparently the nuclear reactor leak post earthquake/tsunami a few years back had an impact on production.

I want far less Dave and his Jade, more Toby and more consistency.

I use Kimbie to pad out my jewelry orders with cheap wax melts etc so the box isn’t so small as to get lost/ squashed. I don’t mind their stuff. Probably Tesco grade. Lighter fragrance compared to high end. The shows are draining though. 1hour on candles is too much, especially when they go for the same price.