Buying pearl can be a fun and gratifying experience. You must wish the pearls you buy can worth the money you pay for them. However, there are many factors to consider before purchasing a beautiful, new piece of pearl Jewelry from eBay for yourself or man you love. We have put together a simple pearl pricing guideline with areas for you to consider, helping you make purchasing pearl as a fun process it should be.
These factors below can influence the price of the pearls:
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* Size
* Color
* Shape
* Luster
* Surface
* Nacre thickness
* Matching
Pearl Type:
When buying pearls on eBay, the first query you should ask yourself or the distributor is the pearl type. Is it a saltwater pearl (cultured in oceans, sea, gulf or bay) or freshwater pearl (from a river, lake or pond)? Akoya pearls can cost any times more than freshwater pearls of similar ability and size. One intuit for this it that one mussel in a lake can produce as many as 40 freshwater pearls in one harvest season. An oyster in the sea normally produces one or two saltwater pearls at a time. Tahitian pearl, South Sea pearl and Akoya pearl are typical saltwater pearls.
Nowadays, as a succeed of freshwater pearl's great ability and affordable price, it has created a renewed fashion in freshwater pearls as an affordable alternative to the high-priced saltwater pearls, like South Sea Pearl and Tahitian Pearl. It's general that some of the high-class freshwater pearls can be priced more costly than medium ability Akoya pearls. Some high-end large round white or pink freshwater pearls can have a retailed price for over 00-000 in Jewelry store.
Whole pearls are much more costly than blister pearls and Mabe pearls
Size:
Usually the larger the pearl the more it is valuable. Size can greatly impact on price, for example, a 1mm increase in the size of medium-quality pearls can raise their price 100% to 200%.
South Sea pearls: normally larger than Akoya and freshwater pearls, whose average diameters tend to range from 9-19mm.
Tahitian pearls: It's no doubt that the bigger the Tahitian pearl the more costly it is. Tahitian pearls normally range in size from 9 to 18mm and their average size tending to be between 9 and 12mm.
Freshwater Pearl: The size of freshwater pearl is more variable than saltwater pearls, which can varies from 2-3mm to 14-16mm or even larger depending on the size of the inserted bead nucleus and nacre thickness.
Akoya Pearls: The size of Akoya pearls normally ranges from 5-10mm. Even though Akoya pearls are often called Japanese pearls, the tasteless Akoya pearls on eBay may be cultured outside Japan. Because of the pollution and strong competition from other Asia countries, China, Korean, Sri Lanka etc, the Akoya farms have shrunken away a lot. On the contrary, China has become the major producer of Akoya pearls less than 8mm in size, most of Akoya pearls over 8 mm are cultured in Japan, like Mikimoto Pearls. If you find a seaboard 7-7.5mm Akoya pearl necklace on eBay, it most probably Chinese Cultured Akoya Pearls.
Color:
Pearl color is a compound of Body color and overtone color which is overlie the pearl body color. Pearls with clear and shape overtone color is more desirable.
Body Color category:
Light pink or Pink color: The top price category. Naturally-colored pink pearls normally have a light pink body color rather than ping or deep pink color, will cost more than dyed-color pink pearls, whose body color looks pinker/darker than natural pink color.
* White color: Equal to or less than pearls with a light pink body color.
* Light cream color: normally will cost less than white color.
* Cream color: normally will cost less than light cream color.
* Dark Cream & Yellow color: Will be priced more than 40% lower than white color Akoya Pearls.
Saltwater pearls that are white and light pink normally sell for more than yellowish. Golden color South Sea pearls from Indonesia and Philippines are an exception and can sell for as much as white color South Sea pearls, in case,granted the golden color is natural and intense.
Pink overtones are desirable on white pearls which is most valuable. Greenish or yellowish overtones tend to reduce the price of white pearls.
Shape:
Generally speaking, the more round and symmetrical the pearl, the more necessary the pearl. Some unique and asymmetrical shape pearls are also desirable and often used to create distinctive pearl Jewelries. The lowest priced shapes are baroque, irregular and asymmetrical shape pearls. At most of the time, these pearls will have descriptive grow-lines encircling the pearl.
Luster:
What is Pearl Luster?
* The shine and glow of the pearls.
* Strong light reflections
* Shape light reflections
* difference between the animated and darker areas of the pearl
The greater and deeper the luster, the more necessary the pearl. Pearls with a high luster will display strong and sharp light reflections and a good difference between the animated and dark areas of the pearl. Pearls with low luster looks milky, chalky and dull.
Surface:
It's general for pearls to have some flaws. The fewer and smaller the flaws, the more necessary the pearl.
Nacre thickness:
Nacre thickness is necessary foremost for cultured pearls. Cultured pearls are formed after a human intentionally insert of a shell bead nucleus in the mollusk. If the bead nucleus isn't left in the mollusk long enough, the mollusk won't have time to coat it with sufficient layers of nacre to it to be a lustrous pearl.
The thicker of the nacre of a pearl, the great and more necessary the pearl. One of the biggest selling points of cultured freshwater pearls is that they normally have a higher division of pearl nacre than their saltwater counterparts.
Matching
The great pearls blend together in terms of color , shape, luster, size and outside quality, the more necessary they are.
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