Post here if you will not, no way, NEVER set foot in a store on Thanksgiving Day.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

135. GIA sends people around the country.

They were in town for 3 weeks teaching diamond grading, colored stone grading and Gem ID. I should have taken Gem ID too.

Anyway, now that I can spot the good stuff I am dangerous at a gem show! There's a wholesale guy from LA who shows up at the Gem Show that has the most gorgeous and highest quality jewelry I have ever seen. He's Armenian and he and his son are great salesmen. They've put some large craters in hubby's bank account ha ha!

None of this "fish gravel" for me! That's what they called the bad stuff they sell in department stores, in my class! The real nerd teachers are into obscure minerals that are pretty but too soft to use for jewelry. One of the guys that was our teacher had a collection of that stuff that he showed us. Sounds like you fit that category.

Wish I could have gotten a job in a respectable jewelry store selling good stuff to a better clientele. Didn't happen. The stuff we sold out of the lease department was so bad that they only sold round diamonds, no emerald cuts, because the flaws are quite obvious with the parallel facets. And there was no grade on the price tags. Just carat weight.

Besides, "Slightly Imperfect" sounds good, right??? Actually it's got way too many flaws for jewelry and should die and go to heaven and come back as a grinding wheel, as I say.