[Jewelry making - Article 00454] - Re: [Orchid] Trying to Educate Customers

[Susannah Garcia]

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Hello, everybody,

    It sounds like she's thinking of citrine, rather than amber. I
    certainly hope she decides to learn from this experience and not
    give an unfair rating. 

    That said, I'm still trying to convince my dad that emeralds are
    green, not red. I have no idea why he thinks this, he saw the Wizard
    of Oz and everything. 

    And when I worked at a jewelery store, a very wealthy woman once
    told me that she liked to wear her tanzanite ring (a beautiful dark
    purple/blue color, about the size of my eye) even though the
    "sapphire" was "fake." That was a ring I had to size up (gulp), and
    when I'd finished sizing it up, and it was all polished and
    everything, the salesgirl brought it back to me to tell me that I
    "hadn't sized it up yet." She wasn't used to sizing stock being
    filed down to match the band size, in addition to being sanded AND
    polished. I shudder to think what the work that had been going out
    looked like before I got there. 

    And my mother thinks that they have special mines for different
    colors of gold. 

    At least my own family should know better, but that's just a
    demonstration of how dearly held some misconceptions are: despite
    explanations, they have a hard time making the shift in belief.

susannah

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