Valeria101
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Seriously?![]()
Absolutely.
Ever heard of a sham built carefully in the open? Could be amusing. Or better.
I'm asking about Chinese freshwater pearls only. If 20% or more of Chinese freshwater pearls routinely come back from a lab certified as a "natural" because distinguishing between tissue nuked and a real natural is near impossible, do these now lab certified Chinese freshwater "naturals" have any more value than the tissue nuked ones?
20% is a big number. Knowing that, would simply evaluate the transaction without considering said lab reports as a source of reference (which does not exclude deploying some third party as independent expert -hypothetically).
Now, those reports are sale tools, and... expectations of future sale is part in buying. Inasmuch, I'd still care about those reports IF I would expect that having one agreeing with my view of the item has some bearing on a future sale. At this point, I am unsure of their popularity.
Otherwise, there are several respected gemological laboratories - if chances of a false ID are 1 in 5, I'd keep submitting until satisfied! Would not expect a seller using such 'paper' to do any less.

Sorry for the bore...
I really only have two simple rules applied here: that unreliable third party ID simply leaves the task of identification ON ME - both as buyer and seller; and they make my task marginally more difficult in the letter capacity NOT the end of the world.
I have not seen natural Hyriopsis pearls offered, and speaking hypothetically takes some edge of the matter.
Has anyone?
Whatever I might think of this problems, the world is not loosing an important buyer of natural pearls.

Knowing this, would you buy such a pearl priced as a natural?
No idea how natural Hyriopsis are priced in the first place... That alone would make such a transaction worse then gambling for me, even if I was certain of what the pearl is. [at least for the same consideration of future sale as above - I would not gamble as much as I would spend on a proper natural pearl

All this seems so clear, I must be wrong!...
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