Featured eBay. more claptrap to contend with.

The list of exclusions and what they can't do is very long, main stone has to be diamond, ruby or emerald (no sapphire for some reason). They can't determine heat treatments, only look at areas easily visible (ie not obscured by mounts). Don't count stones!!! Don't check secondary stones, won't check any jade, quartz family etc. So at present it looks like it's only useful for solitaires, but I guess it may weed out some of the jokers trying to pass off cz's as diamonds under stupid marketing names.

 

Wow, that is a lot! But there are probably so many scammers on the site that this is what they decided to do to combat fraud or deception.

 

What that's going to do to the cost of shipping!

 

Huh, is that just ebay.uk? I haven't sold on ebay in years and very little jewelry however my daughter is doing a lot of jewelry online these days. I'm not sure how much on ebay yet.

 

Similar in US. Different dollar amount.
Their authenticaters are worthless.

 

I have lots of rings I need to sell. Many are cameos, chalcedony, so outside this racket. But many others are synthetic color change sapphires, a stone these GIA grads know nothing about, even though corundum.

 

Yea, we've have it here I think over a year now. Last year I had some fine jewelry to sell and I just ignored the whole thing. The pieces I sold went through with no problem. Maybe it was voluntary at that point, maybe it still is, or maybe being a small seller I was under the Radar.

All I know is I sold some nice pieces at prices I was happy with

 

Supposedly nothing for the customer, but they have increased fees across the jewellery categories, so sellers are paying more overall to cover the cost of the implementation. Currently this new service is for UK sellers to UK buyers only, so if you export the item it's not eligible.

 

For us there are a number of issues. They say the will be testing metal using standard techniques including acid. So that's potentially an issue if they damage an item this way.

Also you can't now do next day delivery, and quite a few purchases we get are someone wanting it urgently for a gift. It looks like the shortest delivery will be 4 days through this service.

Another issue is that the customer can still do an 'item not as described' return, which seems odd as they say the will be checking condition as well as stones/materials.

 

I'm sorry, they're raising fees but can't be arsed to buy an XRF for the facility???

 

This is eBay standard: if they can find a way to do it wrong that's how they'll do it.

This was coming in here as I was going out. I think they're finally doing more stones here, because some of the highest price per karat rocks weren't included. Things that sell for MORE than diamonds. My advice is to NOT sell fine jewelry on eBay. Period. Too many scammers, and now the authenticity "guarantee" and extra fees. You may make as much and be safer selling it to a pawn shop.

That's the polite term for it. Also expensive. They charge ALL jewelry sellers extra fees to pay for the authenticators, from fine jewelry dealers to casual sellers hawking some leftover Paprazzi junk or dollar store bracelets. They all pay extra fees.

 

i'm sure the system isn't perfect. a friend uses it selling watches and seems happy with it for the assurances it gives buyers....

 

So far the Coin Dealers & Pawn Shops offer me scrap,or sometimes roughly 1/2 of retail-but it's cash in hand & there's no chance of a headache about some Ebay con artist in Bulgaria or wherever.

 

No low-ballers either. The price is the price and all sales final. No credit card chargebacks to worry about.

 

No chargebacks,low-ballers or phony addresses or aliases,I will miss that extra $300-$400,but it wont hurt as bad or long as an Ebay heist.

 

Or the USPS dropping the ball... and maybe dropping your jewels into somebody's pocket. Either enabling a scammy buyer or grinding the package up in the gears and sending the contents to Lost and Found. Or just losing it entirely.