Sapphire from 60 to 2000 dollars?

[Claustro]

Hi , excuse me for my dumb question but how could be possible a sapphire could have a such range of prices?
Stone like this one http://tinyurl.com/nfmk82x what are good for? Are Jewelry with such kind of gems only a waste of money?
Thank you and excuse me for my bad english.
Andrea

 

[chrono]

The name of the vendor is familiar
1. Blue background makes a stone look bluer
2. Natural only means earth mined. Treatment is heat, but heat also includes other treatments.
3. A significant amount of eye visible inclusions
4. Not good cut

ETA
Found this from a while back
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/tell-us-the-ebay-gem-sellers-youve-had-good-experiences-with.127886/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/tell-us-the-ebay-gem-sellers-youve-had-good-experiences-with.127886/[/URL]

Snippets:
I can''t rightly say that thanex is ok. I''ve had luck with him only once. Only 1 stone checked out to be natural with no BE or heat. Unfortunately the stone color/cut was also not even close to the picture. the reason I kept it because it checked out and would have cost me more than I paid to send it back. I am forever grateful my jeweler has the stuff to properly check this stuff out for me.

 

[T L]

Hi , excuse me for my dumb question but how could be possible a sapphire could have a such range of prices?
Stone like this one http://tinyurl.com/nfmk82x what are good for? Are Jewelry with such kind of gems only a waste of money?
Thank you and excuse me for my bad english.
Andrea

If it's diffused, and heated can also mean diffused, it's worth far less than an unheated gem with the same characteristics. It could also be a synthetic. I don't know this seller and I'm not accusing her/him of anything, but you really have to be careful of sapphires, especially on ebay.

Always buy from a reputable vendor, who stands behind their merchandise. Ebay has some very reputable vendors, but since it's marketplace full of multiple vendors, some not so reputable, you do have to be careful.

 

[JewelFreak]

I don't know the vendor, but I would be very very cautious about a 1.04 ct sapphire listed at $80. In fact, I'd be so cautious, I would back away quickly.

 

[Edward Bristol]

Sure, you can go from $2 to $20.000/carat

Same with, say, stamps, or coins, or old books, they can be 10 cents or 1.8 million.

Why be surprised? It is a collector item.

 

[iLander]

A sapphire can be "natural" if it was taken from the ground. There are literally tons of sapphires pulled from the ground every year. A stone's original color can be brown or grey or anything. It's worth about $5. It can be heated with chemicals to make it any color you wish. It can also have all the cracks, fissures, black specks, etc., cooked out of it.

When all that is done, it can appear quite blue and clear. But it still worth about $5. Maybe $10 because there's labor involved in all that treatment.

You can go on ebay and find a beryllium treated sapphire for $5, if the vendor is willing to admit it's heavily treated.

If they are not willing to admit it, you can find that same sapphire for $2000.

Or you can find an untreated, unheated stone (verified as such by AGL, a lab) for $10,000. This stone is rare, with only a few good, large, clean examples being pulled from the tons of dross every year. Rarity makes the price what it is.

It all depends on what you are willing to put up with and what you are willing to pay.

 

[treasurehunter]

even if its not diffused its got a lot of feather cloud throughout the stone and a weak colour