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Hi Vicky I’m sorry to hear you’re disappointed with your new bangle. To me it looks like the same bangle in the seller’s pics. She is known for not taking the best pics. I’m not knowledgeable enough to tell if this bangle was bleached but if you aren’t satisfied perhaps you can ask to return it...
Cool bangle and it reminds me of you user name - it’s Smokey looking lol! And your puppy is adorable!This is a grey-green square cut bangle - my first square cutI think I still don’t know how to bring out the light green of this bangle in my photos haha
You know it’s bleached when you can see spider web on the surface-that is either a bad bleaching job or a 5-year old one because it loses luster (gloss?) after a long time. And if it is old, you can sometimes spot “clear spots” as if you see quartz veins in some stones like amethyst or agate (druzy agate is a good example); except quartz is not mixed in jade. So, those spots are the voids left behind by the bleaching-and if it is injected with polymer, you can see those voids turn off color like yellowish (in highly translucent jade it even gives you the impression of?floating “cloud”). In the second photo of my lots, you can see the grey spots in the inner wall and one or two on the outer surface. And a dead give away is how light it feels for that thickness and width: agate bangle always feel much lighter than a nephrite bangle for the same outer diameter and width even if their differences in specific gravity is not that much: 2.95 for nephrite and 2.6 for agate. And you know agate stone (not its weight or SG) just has that feel to it when you hold it in your palm.
The first photo of the ordered bangle has one square(ish) spot in the inner wall; the one I have does not have that “birthmark” but a few lines of green on the inner wall. And the outer surface should have a horizontal green patch on one edge but the one I have does not. Instead, it has a big area of diffused green. I asked her to look at my photos and she admitted to send the wrong one due to her old age (76 I think). So she offered $10 refund and I could keep the bangle or return for full refund. What bothers me is that she did not offer to take back this one send out the right bangle nor did she even mention the availability of it.
My little Benji was waiting for me to quickly take my photo so that I could give him treats
I see.... if she acknowledges she sent the wrong bangle then it’s the wrong one for sure. I agree she should have offered to take back this one and send you the right one. You should ask about this option and if for whatever reason the bangle you originally ordered is not available, you can decide which of her offers you would accept.
Hi Vicky, sorry to hear about your experience with this seller. That is really frustrating especially when the seller does not offer to send the right bangle or promises to "look" for it and somehow cannot find the bangle you ordered. If you can get a full refund, I say take it and never go back to her. I'm sad to say similar thing has happened to me with a silver bracelet I ordered online from a seller on ebay. Luckily she gave me a full refund (including shipping cost) to send it back. I can't believe how some sellers think somehow you are not going to notice the difference.
Love the look of this bangle! Who is the seller? PM, please if you don't want to share publicly.This is a grey-green square cut bangle - my first square cut
I’m petite as well and both my 14 and 12 year old boys are taller than me lol
). She’s having a sale now - 10% off for any 2 items
