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#15,904
Purse Nut said:
I can’t see any pictures either. Thought something was wrong with my settings but they’re all correct.
It’s the same way in other threads. Must be a website problem.
This is weird!
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Ah! I almost typed that I was so glad you were having the same problem . . . I'm not but I've been sitting here trying to figure out why I can't see anything! I need my fix!!
 
#15,908
Dan-Thanh said:
I sent B/C bangle to those labs that I posted the certificate photos when I visited Vietnam. I was always suspisous about those labs and there we go....they do tell us if it's type A but other than Type A, they try to make the cert looks like it's type A by mentioning natural jadeite, natural colour etc but not stating clearly that colour dyed or polymer impregnating. Sigh! It is great if I could buy jadeite in person, but I can't and lots of us here can only buy online.

@PJcherri heat treatment is ok but I think it's fair for buyers to know what they are buying and pay a reasonable amount of money for it. However none of red jadeite listings online are mentioned whether they have heat treatment or not. I didn't know it until my Chinese friend told me. I could not find any information about it in English either.
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Whoa.....so scary. I myself have almost all my jade pieces certified either by the Hong Kong Jade and Stone Lab or the GIA because my jeweler only uses those two companies. Thank you so much DT for sharing your experience. We are all jade sisters here. Hugs.
 
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#15,911
Silver Mom said:
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OMG, the pictures are working again. Just wanted to test if it was working now so I posted my blue bangle. OK everybody you can post again. I've been missing everybody's beauties.
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IWHLVR said:
I only see your blue bangle, not the other pictures . . . is that working for everyone else? Maybe I need to clear cookies out? UGGGGH
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Beautiful bangle SM [emoji5]

Nope, I only see the one picture too.
 
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@Dan-Thanh : I didn't mean to comment if buyers should know or not; this I agree all that information should be revealed to the buyer in order to have an appropriate value paid for the item but sadly, we know what some people do in this industry. I'm not sure with jade but sometimes between gems, heat treatment can be difficult to trace and someone can only suspect if it was used or not, or that typically heating does very little change (only very slight colour improvements rather than to mend inclusions for better transparency). This again, is just from what I understand from gems in general and not sure how far it is applicable to jade.

:sad: Photos will won't load for me either... oh no! I even tried my secondary browser and ... nothing (not even the user photos) other than SM's test post.
 
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