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 Post subject: Why you should always send fine gems to a lab before selling
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You may remember that I listed this gem in the classified section a few weeks ago. Initially I had a price on it just below wholesale for a slightly silky pink, heated, Ceylon sapphire. It did not sell. I thought about sending it to a lab for a report thinking that might be a selling bonus. I did not. All this transpired at the time i was getting ready to go to Philadelphia for my interview.

I reduced the price to just a bit above my cost to move the stone. I sold it fairly quickly after that. The client, however decided to have me send the gem to AGL. It came with a Thai report but the client wanted something more substantial. I sent it out just a day before I left for Philly. This morning I talked to AGL and got the results. This pink sapphire came back as a Padparadscha...easily worth 4 to 5 times what I sold it for.

My client is obviously very happy and I'm happy for them. But I am licking my wounds. Had I not been in a rush and sent the gem to AGL myself it would have been a real bonus for me. Lesson learned. Never sell a fine gem without a report from a well respected lab.

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very interesting story, and the experience is haste make waste
Jason what was the name of Thai Lab?
Padparadscha's based on color, you could get a color analyze Report 8)

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The thai lab was Burapha. Not a bad lab in any respect. But their standard reports are not detailed and they are not known here in the west.

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thank you J.
from the picture the color seems to be purplish Pink to Pink, maybe better picture is needed

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:shock: Oh fizzlebum ouch. ..... . OUCH!
#-o ](*,) :smt021 :smt075 :smt106 Does that sum it up?

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Pretty much, Moo. LOL

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That's the kind of stuff that drives me insane. It gnaws at me for days after. I feel your pain... and mine for not buying it when you reduced the price!


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Just found out that this gem was also UNHEATED. #-o

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=D> Well, the good news is....you certainly did not misrepresent it.


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And it demonstrates how good your eye is!

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LOL Barbra :lol:

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on the other hand, if you can't see enough of an orange hue to call it a padparadscha, then maybe it's a good thing it was not sold as such. Unless the picture is mistaking, I would call that a pink.


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cascaillou wrote:
on the other hand, if you can't see enough of an orange hue to call it a padparadscha, then maybe it's a good thing it was not sold as such. Unless the picture is mistaking, I would call that a pink.

Yes, the color in the photo is off. In person it was just like this:

http://www.thenaturalsapphirecompany.co ... eid=PA2254

Double WAHHHHHHHH!

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Gee, Jason, you don't happen to have another one of those unsalable, eye sores, do ya?
I might just do you a favor and take it off your hands. :twisted:


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