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<p>[QUOTE="Marko, post: 5054413, member: 210"]Now the story....got to my flea market at 8:20 a.m. First table I stop at I see this pearl brooch</p><p>[ATTACH=full]414152[/ATTACH]</p><p>Lady proceeds to tell me the guy setting up next to her told her it's 14k and he wants to buy it "after he makes some money." I loupe it and find it's sterling. She wanted $40, but sold it to me for $30. I walk around for exercise, people were setting up really late. The guy was still setting up at 10:30, and he had bought some jewelry out. I asked to see a cameo necklace, he tells me it's sterling, it's 800 silver. I notice a lot of crazing, so I politely decline telling him it is lovely, but has a bit of crazing. He goes BALLISTIC on me, gets a huge magnifying glass out, says I am a liar, he's been doing this a long time, show me the crazing. I point it out, it was so bad it looked like cracks that you could see with a naked eye, tell him I've been at it for a long time, too. He starts screaming again "so don't buy it," which I already declined doing. He just yelled constantly as I walked away. His loss on the brooch he misidentified as 14k for the lady. Not only was it sterling, it was Mikimoto.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]414153[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marko, post: 5054413, member: 210"]Now the story....got to my flea market at 8:20 a.m. First table I stop at I see this pearl brooch [ATTACH=full]414152[/ATTACH] Lady proceeds to tell me the guy setting up next to her told her it's 14k and he wants to buy it "after he makes some money." I loupe it and find it's sterling. She wanted $40, but sold it to me for $30. I walk around for exercise, people were setting up really late. The guy was still setting up at 10:30, and he had bought some jewelry out. I asked to see a cameo necklace, he tells me it's sterling, it's 800 silver. I notice a lot of crazing, so I politely decline telling him it is lovely, but has a bit of crazing. He goes BALLISTIC on me, gets a huge magnifying glass out, says I am a liar, he's been doing this a long time, show me the crazing. I point it out, it was so bad it looked like cracks that you could see with a naked eye, tell him I've been at it for a long time, too. He starts screaming again "so don't buy it," which I already declined doing. He just yelled constantly as I walked away. His loss on the brooch he misidentified as 14k for the lady. Not only was it sterling, it was Mikimoto. [ATTACH=full]414153[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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