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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9494192, member: 36"]They now automatically send any piece of gold or sterling jewelry set with a gemstone from their list and that sold for over $500 to Authentication. The authenticators are allegedly GIA trained. Nobody ever asked for this, and yet all jewelry sellers pay a jacked up FVF to pay for it. This includes sellers who only deal in costume. It slows down delivery of the product, and they've been taking lessons from the shoe authenticators in rejecting genuine pieces. </p><p><br /></p><p>To make the authentication thing work, they royally effed up the search for ALL jewelry. Bolloxed (bollocked to some) is a more printable word for what the did. Utterly ruined would also be appropriate. Some people are better able to find items by Googling them! They have no plans to repair it. The only way around it, surprise surprise, is "Promoting" the listing, aka Danegeld/blackmail/stongarm money. And we all know what they say about what happens once Danegeld gets paid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9494192, member: 36"]They now automatically send any piece of gold or sterling jewelry set with a gemstone from their list and that sold for over $500 to Authentication. The authenticators are allegedly GIA trained. Nobody ever asked for this, and yet all jewelry sellers pay a jacked up FVF to pay for it. This includes sellers who only deal in costume. It slows down delivery of the product, and they've been taking lessons from the shoe authenticators in rejecting genuine pieces. To make the authentication thing work, they royally effed up the search for ALL jewelry. Bolloxed (bollocked to some) is a more printable word for what the did. Utterly ruined would also be appropriate. Some people are better able to find items by Googling them! They have no plans to repair it. The only way around it, surprise surprise, is "Promoting" the listing, aka Danegeld/blackmail/stongarm money. And we all know what they say about what happens once Danegeld gets paid.[/QUOTE]
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