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jess w.

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2 Reviews by jess

  • Alibaba

6/16/19

Found some soapstone boxes with lids that I loved and saw the minimum purchase was 30 items so contacted the seller about 2 separate types and wish to buy minimum purchase of each. He responded, "Oh no. You'd need to buy at least 500 of the one and 2,000 of the other before we agree to ship". Felt suckered in by bait & switch- Total waste of time registering on site then writing to the seller I just didn't get a good feeling about it & won't be browsing alibaba again!

  • Etsy

6/16/19

Astounded by some jewelry sellers' blatant & devious dishonesty on etsy. Wasted money on false claims, twice! Now, seeing a seller from Philly, who claims to sell 'Therapeutic Quality Gemstones Jewelry". Charging top-dollar-prices, She also claims every piece to be 'natural & untreated' stones. She carries many 'citrine' & 'smoky quartz' & 'carnelian' bracelets and claims they're 'untreated'. Try finding these stones, that are natural/untreated! They don't exist. The lava stones are also visibly dyed & coated. Most jewelry seems to be strung on fishing line. People are desperate to heal and actually believe these tall tales, told by devious vendors. There's only 1 jewelry supplier, I'm aware of, that discloses any and all treatments-or lack of- in all of their stone beads. They have HUGE inventory & strands-of-beads worth thousands of dollars but don't sell even ONE smoky quartz/carnelian/citrine that's not dyed/heated or nuked. Natural & untreated stones are vital to healing. People believe that treatments, badly damage/distort/kill, the healing vibrations and 'soul' of the stone. So they pay big bucks for 'untreated, natural, gemstones or crystals'. They actually receive cheap garbage. A 16" string of 'stone' beads can be bought on ebay for about a buck(China of course). I hate to see trusting, ill & desperate people being taken advantage of. Anyone needing REAL stone beads should buy them from the big, reputable, online store that gives us the option, to filter out, all treated gemstone beads & shop for real natural only. It's darned easy to string them on fishing line and tie a surgeon's knot. I'm DONE buying shady, over-priced mystery stones on etsy!

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