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<p>[QUOTE="Desertau, post: 9833100, member: 86775"]A thought on investing in Jades from observations traveling across China, it’s very difficult to sell the average carving in average quality Jade and make much money you are competing in a huge extremely competitive market and many unscrupulous dealers, I’m talking more about my experience in China. I joined a tour group just to spend some time over there with other English speaking people. We stopped in one town for a shopping excursion every tour goes shopping because the tour operators get a kickback from the shops… you’ll go shopping a lot. My wife and I followed the group into one shop where one of the group had come to a deal on a white carved jade pendant for $500 secretly we warned her to wait. My wife and I went back later and wound up talking to the owner and he invited us into the back room, the best stuff is always in the back room. He had a nice antique amber necklace we bought and a couple other things we paid a few hundred dollars for, on the way out he gave us the exact pendant from earlier that was $500 for free. It was an inexpensive tourist (pretty) item, we gave it to the lady from the tour and she was thrilled, but we warned her to be more carful.</p><p><br /></p><p>the best material and carving is expensive but there are many people with a lot of money competing for this high quality it is much easier to sell when you want or need to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Desertau, post: 9833100, member: 86775"]A thought on investing in Jades from observations traveling across China, it’s very difficult to sell the average carving in average quality Jade and make much money you are competing in a huge extremely competitive market and many unscrupulous dealers, I’m talking more about my experience in China. I joined a tour group just to spend some time over there with other English speaking people. We stopped in one town for a shopping excursion every tour goes shopping because the tour operators get a kickback from the shops… you’ll go shopping a lot. My wife and I followed the group into one shop where one of the group had come to a deal on a white carved jade pendant for $500 secretly we warned her to wait. My wife and I went back later and wound up talking to the owner and he invited us into the back room, the best stuff is always in the back room. He had a nice antique amber necklace we bought and a couple other things we paid a few hundred dollars for, on the way out he gave us the exact pendant from earlier that was $500 for free. It was an inexpensive tourist (pretty) item, we gave it to the lady from the tour and she was thrilled, but we warned her to be more carful. the best material and carving is expensive but there are many people with a lot of money competing for this high quality it is much easier to sell when you want or need to.[/QUOTE]
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