We specialize in the finest quality, high-end solid White Gold jewelry, mostly rings, at prices way below retail (often also well below wholesale prices). Most of our items are 14K gold, some are 18K, and a few are 10K; we specify the gold, and the type of finish on each item (and the gram weight). Once in awhile we offer an item in Yellow Gold, Rose Gold or Two-tone Gold, but the vast majority of our items are in solid White Gold. Our ring bands are solid gold, not hollow, not plated. We specialize in colored (fancy) gemstones accented with Diamonds. A few are Diamond items without colored gems, but our true passion is for genuine, natural earth mined fancy colored gemstones. We always prefer untreated gemstones of all kinds whenever those are available, although some gems are routinely treated with slight heat to enhance their color (such as Tanzanites, most all Blue Topaz and Pink Topaz. Most all Blue Diamonds and Black Diamonds are usually treated with irradiation); all such treatments are common expected industry standard. The majority of our rings can be sized up or down. For those rings that cannot be sized, we state so, in our description. If you need a smaller ring than we have, we have ring guard inserts available at no cost.

MOLDAVITE: We specialize in genuine Moldavite from the Moldau region, the world's only source of genuine Moldavite. There is plenty of fake Moldavite offered on eBay, much of it green bottle glass tumbled with rocks to create scratches to give the appearance of genuine Moldavite. They are not able, however, to place the typical small Moldavite "gas or air" bubbles inside. A few Sellers are offering pretty emerald-kelly-green stones which they claim to be "African Moldavite". Genuine Moldavite (a tektite) NEVER comes from Africa: it is found ONLY from the Moldau region around the former Czchechoslovakia. When it comes to Moldavite: Caveat Emptor, or 'Buyer beware'.

We seek out jewelry bargains from various sources, and offer them at a great price, lower than you'd pay retail for the same item. We have numerous jewelry items featuring rare gems, collectors' gems and museum size gems, and exotic one-of-a-kind items which are unlikely to be found elsewhere, or seldom seen in excellent faceted gemmy form set into fine jewelry. We also offer a small assortment of extra affordable items. Our quality control standards for these fine, SPECIAL BUY jewelry items are just as high as for our pricier high-end jewelry items, often we just got a better buy on an item than we normally would. We are now also offering a small selection of gemstone jewelry set in solid .925 Sterling Silver, in an effort to offer jewelry to fit any budget. The mostly hand-crafted Sterling Silver gemstone jewelry items are all stamped .925, and are found in their own special section in our store.

We feature monthly BIRTHSTONE SPECIALS: During any gemstone birthstone month, please take 10% (or more) off the regular price of any item featuring the birthstone gem for that month (unless the item is already on sale), the birthstone sale discount amount is specified each month on the home page of our store. You can email us with any REASONABLE offer for that month's birthstone, even if it's not one of our highlighted Birthstone Specials, and if we can afford to discount the item further for you, we will. Please ask us! WE ANSWER ALL EMAILS.

Our costs: Unlike most jewelers, we do NOT automatically double, triple, or quadruple the price of items we buy. We generally put only a small, reasonable mark-up over what we pay for items we offer, usually just enough to cover our item cost, our eBay listing fees & monthly eBay listing costs, final value selling fees, packaging, shipping and insurance costs and a VERY small profit. We're not trying to make a killing, just trying to help supplement our living by sharing beautiful, fine genuine gemstone jewelry with others. To find the approximate retail value of any item we sell, multiply our asking price by 3 or 4: that's what you can usually expect to pay retail if you could find the item in the retail world. Much of our exotic & rare collectors' gemstone jewelry is unlikely to be found anywhere on any regular market in any store in the retail world, except possibly in small specialty high-end high-cost designer jewelry boutiques.

SINCERE REASONABLE OFFERS: Since our mark-up is so very small, we set a fair asking price which we can afford to take, as our Buy It Now (BIN) price. If you want to offer us less than our BIN asking price, please submit only your reasonable, serious offers. Offering us 1/2 OR 1/4 of our asking price is not reasonable, and such offers WILL be declined. PLEASE DO NOT SEND 'JOKE' OFFERS TO BUY EXPENSIVE OR RARE ITEMS FOR ONLY $50 - A WASTE OF YOUR TIME AND OURS. If there is no 'Make Offer' button on a listing, email us and ask if we would consider your reasonable close offer. We respond to all email.

RISING GOLD PRICES: Gold (and Diamond) prices fluctuate, which affects the cost we must pay for all new items we buy. A very few short years ago gold was only $400 per ounce and less. It rose by over 60% in 2005, was at a 25-year high of $800 per ounce in mid 2006, and has reached an all time record high of just under $1,200 per ounce in November, 2009. It is expected by many experts to continue increasing in price. Our purchasing costs rise as our Vendors increase their prices when gold prices increase. This price increase includes ring mounts, all jewelry settings, and most all pre-made jewelry items. We price items according to what we pay for them, and we don't increase our prices merely to take advantage of today's rising gold and diamond market (which much of the jewelery trade does). Diamond prices have also increased a LOT, which also affects the cost we pay for diamond-accented items. As far as possible we try not to pass too much of those costs along to you.

ALL GENUINE MERCHANDISE: WE DO NOT SELL ANY LAB-CREATED, LAB-GROWN, NON-NATURAL EARTH MINED GEMSTONE SUBSTITUTES, SIMULANTS or any other fake or artificially created stones or gold. Each gemstone we offer is genuine earth mined as Mother Nature made it, as is the gold. We do not sell hollow gold, or gold plated items. We do not sell any CZs or any other type of artificial or simulated Diamond substitutes; all Diamonds and Diamond accents we offer are genuine earth mined (we test all Diamonds with our diamond tester to ensure authenticity). Whenever possible we purchase natural, unheated, untreated gemstones. Some gems are routinely and commonly heat-treated to enhance their color, or routinely oiled (in the case of most all Emeralds) to improve their appearance, which is very common, accepted and even expected in the jewelry industry but we always prefer to find and sell completely natural, totally untreated gems whenever possible. We will disclose other treatments when known (such as the patented diffusion treatment vapor deposited on the surface of most all Mystic Topaz stones).

PHOTOS: We do not use filters or in any way enhance or digitally mess with any of the photos we display. What you see for gemstone color and clarity in the photos for each item is what the item actually looks like, as much as possible. Different computer monitors may vary very slightly in the shade of color you see. Most of the items we sell look MUCH more beautiful in real life than we can possibly convey in our photos. We are not professional photographers. If we've had trouble adequately capturing some element of the item in our photographs (which happens, as jewelry is one of the hardest things to photograph) we say so. Many of our photos are taken with 16 times magnification to show every detail more clearly than even using the standard jewelers loupe with only 10x magnification. We disclose any flaws which we're aware of in any item so that any surprise you may get is a pleasant one!

QUALITY CONTROL: Our quality standards are very high. We offer only the finest, most high-end high quality gemstones, accent stones, and good substantial SOLID GOLD settings we can obtain. We do not sell cheap flimsy settings or thin skimpy hollow or "dipped" or "plated" gold, which you can find elsewhere on plenty of other eBay stores, selling for lower prices than our jewelry. We take pride in offering gemstones with the finest possible color, carat weight, cut, clarity, saturation, finish and settings, and fine quality, weighty, well finished, solid, smoothly polished genuine solid Gold. We also offer the best quality Diamond accent stones we can find. Many, if not most of our White Diamond accent stones are top-gem-grade, near colorless F to G to H color (or better), VS or SI clarity. Our Champagne Diamond gemstones are usually deeply, richly saturated, rather than pale faint slight tinge of color, particularly on the more high-end items. All items we offer are the very highest quality one would expect in fine quality, high-end jewelry, but at much, much, lower than prevailing retail prices (and always lower than the estimated retail value of our items).

CONDITION: All items are new, and unworn, unless specifically otherwise disclosed as Estate jewelry. Items we sell are shipped with the original manufacturer tags whenever possible. We do not EVER re-tag any items.

SHIPPING: Our published shipping rate always includes insurance and tracking. We sell to and ship worldwide. Payment must be in US dollars. For international sales, buyers are responsible for payment of any customs, duties or VAT which may be charged by your particular country. Such customs fees are not always often charged, but if such charges are imposed, Buyer is responsible for payment. We will not mis-state item values and mark items as a "gift" for international shipping. No exceptions! We ship FREE to all 50 United States, by USPS priority mail Insured, with tracking. We ship by UPS to international locations. FedEx shipping is available by special request - please contact us for arrangement before payment.

RETURNS: Your satisfaction is guaranteed. We have an easy no-hassle full money back return policy, designed for your satisfaction. We never charge you any "restocking fee" penalty on returns. Return costs are responsibility of the Buyer. We ask that if you are unsatisfied with any purchase, for any reason at all, please contact us first, so we can resolve it to YOUR satisfaction, including full money-back refund of your payment price. All returned items must be returned insured, UNDAMAGED , within 7 days, in the original shipping cases, and shipped insured with tracking, with all original tags remaining intact and in unworn condition. No exceptions will be made to this policy.

PRIVATE EBAY SALES: If you prefer the cost or other specifics of the purchased item and your name not be publicly associated on eBay in feedback listings, please email us before bidding or making an offer, and we will make the transaction a private eBay sale if possible.

FEEDBACK: We will appreciate receiving your positive feedback on every transaction with us, please! We will leave positive feedback for you upon your paying as agreed. Your positive feedback helps drive our business, it helps keep our eBay listing fees and monthly costs down, it helps us establish a solid reputation and helps other prospective Buyers know what type of dealings they can expect from our store. It is inconsiderate to not leave positive feedback for a transaction, unless you've been displeased with our service in some way. Even in such rare instances, PLEASE CONTACT US, so we can resolve any problem to your satisfaction. Please do not leave us negative or neutral feedback before first contacting us. We will bend over backward to do everything within reason to make you a happy Buyer! eBay counts neutral Feedback as Negative, so please do not leave us neutral feedback. We appreciate your emailed questions and comments any time. We welcome your questions, suggestions and comments, through eBay, and will try our best to work with you for the best deal we possibly can give you on any item, if you must offer less than our Buy It Now (BIN) asking price. Watch for our periodic Auctions for exceptional savings on our regular high quality items.

SPECIAL ORDERS: In a few cases, we've been able to order an item for a Buyer in a different size than the one we have, or in Yellow Gold rather than our specialty White Gold. This usually applies only to our very newest items, but PLEASE ASK US; we have been able to help several Buyers in this way. If able, we'll gladly help you at no extra cost (unless rush shipping is required, which we ask you to pay in such cases).

LAYAWAY: For some of our items, please ask us about layaway plans, which we can arrange in some circumstances. For layaway items we generally prefer 30% to 50% down with the balance to be paid off within 60 to 90 days if possible. Contact us for more details.

Much of the general information we provide about gemstones and birthstones, is from the GIA (Gemological Institute of America), Wholesale Diamond and Colored Stones Pricing Guide, and various other trade publications. Every item we sell is shipped in an attractive presentation case and is shipped in the next business day after receipt of payment (excluding Sundays). SHIPPING NOTE: We ship by USPS priority mail, which the US Postal Service states as "2-3 days", but we've had reports of items frequently taking up to 5 days to arrive (particularly to the East Coast). Items shipping to and from Hawaii often take a day or so longer, for some reason we've never been able to determine, so please be prepared for this possibility, and please be patient. We always ship within 24 hours of receiving payment, excluding Sundays or Federal Holidays. Your feedback is very important to us, so we can determine how quickly our Buyers are receiving items.

CLEANING TIPS: We do not recommend using ultrasonic or steam cleaning machines to clean gemstones: some of the softer gemstones can be harmed using these cleaning methods. Most gemstones can be periodically cleaned by simply rinsing in warm (not hot) soapy water, using clear water to finish. If you want to use a VERY soft toothbrush to gently loosen any debris which might be under the stones, please use it gently and infrequently. Dry the gemstones gently with a lint-free cloth before putting them away. Have your finest gems cleaned by a professional jeweler periodically. Your gems should last a lifetime and become family heirlooms, if you don't abuse them. Between thorough cleanings, keep your gemstones and gold clean and sparkling by using a soft gemstone cleaning cloth to refresh the shine and remove any skin oils, cosmetics or fingerprints. Some gems are softer than others (Emeralds and Opals are much softer than Diamonds and Sapphires, for example). We suggest you treat all your jewels carefully, with respect and affection.