As you can cheat in jewelry stores

During the crisis, demand for jewelry is reduced, because they are not a necessity. Hoping to attract buyers in the jewelry stores put items on sale at a very low price. But miracles do not happen.

The price of raw gold in the past 10 years, and if reduced to a certain period, it is left in plus. Therefore, all the hype about "rings for 999 rubles" - just a trick.

You may be misleading as to the true value of jewelery in several ways.

What tricks are shops

1. Cheap alloy instead of the more valuable

The most common gold sample - 585-I. This figure means that in one kilogram of alloy from which made decoration, present 585 grams of pure gold. Also can meet ornaments of 750 standard, they are more expensive.

In stores you can find items, which will be other tests, such as 375 or 500. Such gold valued less, there are a lot of impurities. His worst performance. It is not surprising that there are such decorations cheaper.

The problem is that the stores often do not focus on the differences in the quality of the metal, and most buyers are sure that buying the product 585-th sample.

2. Samples not at all parts of the product

By law, if the decoration consists of several elements, the sample has to stand on each. Of course, if all of these parts are made of precious metals. But nothing prevents a jeweler combine in one product small gold details and banal stainless steel. This decoration will be cheaper, and demand for it will be higher.

If you see that the sample has only a portion of the product is very similar to a desire to inflate its value in the eyes of buyers. Especially careful to be with the bracelets. the precious metal is often done only by a chain and beads and pendants made of cheap alloys.

3. Inconsistency carat actual composition of the alloy

Of course, the major jewelry stores such things not engaged. Rather, it is a trick that sin market traders and small shops. For example, this situation is typical for the Turkish gold that love because of low prices.

products available for sale, not produced in Russia. They are not all the usual trials and prints on the European standard, Carat. Buyer of habit difficult to navigate. Although a professional with the naked eye sees the discrepancy real quality of the sample claimed alloy.

Comes to the ridiculous: in the product indicate the highest sample of 24 carats, which corresponds to 99% of pure gold the composition, but in fact betrayed decoration brightly streaked with red, giving the proportion of copper in the alloy ligature least 25%.

To make it easier to navigate, so the ratio of two metric system:

• 24 karat - 999-I sample;
• 23 karat - 958-I sample;
• 18 karat - 750-I sample;
• 14 karat - 585-I sample;
• 12 karat - 500-I sample;
• 9 karat - 375-I sample.

4. Lightweight products under the guise of full-length

Another common trick of jewelry stores - sales of lightweight products under the guise of high-grade jewelry. It may look like that. Suppose taken gold pendant, in the framing of the precious metal is inserted into a large and heavy fianit - semi-precious stone. The information on this product indicates the total weight of the stone and metal frame, and the weight seems to be quite significant for the jewelry.

In fact, the metal used in the product is extremely small, and the main weight falls on the synthetic stone. Also variants are possible, when saving metal decorations are made hollow or convex on only one side. They look at it as a full-fledged product, and make them cheaper.

5. Compound of precious and non-precious stones in a single product

The most insulting trick. For example, you buy ring with diamondsAs indicated on the label. And diamonds are really there. To the scattering of stones, which is strewn with your ring, diamonds for three things: the smallest and most subtle. The rest - phianites where cheaper stones.

More may be used instead of natural, synthetic stones. We are not talking about plastic or glass imitations. Synthetic stones were grown in a special way, that simulates natural stone formation process. At the output of the resulting product has a structure similar to the natural, and may be even more complete and beautiful color.

Distinguish between artificial stone only by a professional-gemologist. Reputable firms required to indicate on the label, if the stone is in the unnatural product. Look for marks such as "synthetic ruby" or "grown emerald."

How to choose a quality piece of jewelry

Fortunately, most of the tricks are easy to recognize. Enough to buy jewelry in large shops that care about their reputation, and read product label before rejoice too low a price. With proper care, you will see references to that used in the ring, not only diamonds, but also semi-precious stones, and the real weight of gold is small, and the sample is not so flawless.

Weed out low-quality jewelry, you will realize that the value of jewelry is really not so low. Because gold is good can not be cheap.

The only reasonable way to save money on jewelry - buy second-hand products. But choose only those places where you will be given a certificate for decoration and to take responsibility for ensuring that all the stated characteristics the actual quality of the product.