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Date: Tuesday, 31-Jan-06 06:41:39 CST

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GEMS TV (SKY 646 & 663)

I have brought two alexandrite items from gems tv with no colour change to be seen at all, under torch or candle light. I found this article about alexandrite & suggest you heed what is said as it is a farce.

2005 Update

In the past few years, significant quantities of lower grade alexandrite has come on the market, mainly from Russia. Most of it is green with no apparent colour change, or if their is any colour change, it is extremely difficult to see. These are being marketed mainly by television jewellery shopping channels. We have now seen at least two samples which people have bought, and we were rather under-impressed. Both were in thin lightweight mounts, and even though they were in 18 carat gold, they looked as though they had been made "down to a price" like much of the jewellery from mass market discount multiples such as Argos of H. Samuel. This type of jewellery is alright as long as you stick to buying it because you like it, but it usually seems to be marketed along with ridiculous "valuation" prices or "starting" prices, then sold at about 10% of this figure.

The presenters are false feeding information about their gems & showing how much of a gem hunter gavin is, as alexandrite what they are selling is very poor & good gem hunter would have high grade colour changing alexandrite, which is what they keep expressing they are selling. Don't be conned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!