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Post by rockjunquie on Dec 30, 2019 21:40:52 GMT -5
These sellers on IG are so damn aggressive. What gets me is they still haven't figured out that they need to post their prices. I won't buy from any of them if I have to message and play 20 freakin' questions. I did one deal. It worked out, but I had to work my ass off to get a price nailed down, send pics back with the ones I wanted circled and deal with a language barrier and constant messages. One parcel from India was completely lost with no help from the seller. The package eventually came in AFTER PP gave me my money back. I'm not paying him, either. All my questions went unanswered. After the sale, he just could care less.
I see a lot of nice stuff, but no, they need to be more forthright.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Dec 31, 2019 11:06:23 GMT -5
I'll never deal with these people! Would rather deal with the middle guy here in the states and pay the extra $$ and not have the "BS' that goes with overseas dealers..
Beautiful material coming from there though, can't deny that... I also hate the 20 question deals, puts a damper on everything!
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Post by roy on Dec 31, 2019 12:48:07 GMT -5
my best advice is do not !! they are made up of mostly thief's there are a few dealers that have great connections there that i buy from but even they will tell you that they have got stuck with crap rock every now and again
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Post by stardiamond on Dec 31, 2019 17:57:38 GMT -5
I use to buy Indian Nag Champa Sai Baba soap from Vitaglo in NY cheap. They quit stocking it and Ebay and Amazon were too expensive so I started doing some internet searches and found a site that connects buyers with Indian manufacturers. I was prepared to buy a few hundred bars of soap to save on shipping and possible resell. After exchanging a lot of emails the price offered wasn't worth the trouble. Eventually an importer about 60 miles from where I live started importing and their prices destroyed what I was being offered by Indian sellers. Ebay is being flooded with Indian sellers and they are offering bogus material. Nipomo Marcasite from Indonesia. Nipomo is in California. Butterfly wing jasper from who knows where and Butterfly is from Mexico.
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Post by knave on Jan 1, 2020 12:33:44 GMT -5
When I was first looking at rocks I bought a couple things from India on Etsy. Hmmmm kind of mixed results. None of them looked like the photo. Lol.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 13, 2020 9:15:35 GMT -5
Well, I eliminated nearly all the Indo sellers off my IG. I kept the one that I had a decent transaction with. He offered me $10 each with free shipping for some very nice 40 mm ish fully fortified Sumatra agate. I thought it was a good deal, they look very nice. We'll see. This time was much easier. Maybe, I'll stick with this guy alone.
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