I've been eye-balling some of their pearls as well. There was a thread a while back where a number of forum members recounted good shopping experiences. I emailed them to ask them about a particular strand of freshwaters and whether they were dyed. They responded that they were not dyed, but may have been treated. They said, here's the weird part, that they did not know because they had been imported from Japan. Huh? It raised a red flag in my head and made me pause in my shopping. Would a Chinese pearl seller be importing pearls from Japan? That sounds...unlikely. Now, I'm a little torn about shopping with them.