navarre wrote:
perfectdeb wrote:
what guarantees its genuine swarovski at that price?
call me cynical...
Everytime I go to Shanghai - theres someone trying to sell me a genuine Lolex (rolex) - or a Mon Blon (Mont Blanc) - whwn pushed they call them Genuine Fakes - cant get more genuine then that I reckon.
Actually - the chinese crystals are scarily good - at least most of the ones I have seen - theres some discrepancies\differences in the facetting - but overall the colour\polish\sharpness of facet edges is good - they just might give the real thing a run for its money any day soon.
i was selling chinese A grade machine cut crystals in my shop - stunning quality. the only problem i ever had was when somone would come in and try to match a swarovski colour, they were completely different, but if you wanted clear, ab/clear or black it was fine. i had one woman that used to buy hundreds of clear (never did work out what she was doing with them). the colours were beautiful too.
where the best price i could get for bulk from swarovski was about 7c (4mm bicone) the chinese price was about 3c
100 6mm bicones for $3.99? - yep thats about right - a little cheaper than i would have normally gotten actually, and i had to buy 1440