I’m an American who has no idea about the size or shape of Africa and am still about six weeks behind in the cable news cycle. Will buying your tanzanite give me Ebola?
It was actually the jewelry seller, Victoria Wieck/HSN who said it (quote below). We (the snarkers)thought it was disgusting, and called her on it. We are so sorry if all of those people who are sick and dying are effecting your jewelry sales.
Victoria Wieck: “You can wear this ring to Aspen, the Swiss Alps, or Paris”. and: “I don’t want to use the words rare or exotic when I talk about tanzanite, but you should get it now, what with that ebola stuff happening over there”
Unbelievable.
We rarely ever mention the Liquidation Channel, unless it’s to bring someone’s attention to a great deal. I think someone from the channel was doing a bit of googling and came upon that zombie thread, and thinking it was current, responded to it.
I’ve seen this channel before, though not lately. It is everything that’s been said here and more. Entertaining as hell, if you’re in the right mood. Good campy fun.
I haven’t watched recently, but they used to do a segment with a revolving, mirrored pedestal crammed with jewelry pieces, mostly older items, antiques, designer stuff, one-of-a-kind items, and they’d showcase one item at a time while they talked with callers. I’m an old gemologist, so it was pretty interesting at times, depending on the items.
Other times, they’d be more about selling loose gemstones, which are generally not as valuable as people might think. Common things like amethyst, garnets, etc. Nothing to get too excited about. But these guys would be dancing and prancing and praising them to the moon.
Sometimes the gems were clearly being displayed and lit in a way that I thought was pretty misleading, but most of the time they didn’t seem to be too concerned with disguising it if a gemstone had visible inclusions or weak color or a poor cut.
And just say the word “tanzanite”! They’d all practically swoon! God’s gift to mankind!
I thought that was a hilarious parody post. If it wasn’t, I’ll eat my hat. OK, I’m not wearing a hat, but still I’m thinking parody. If it wasn’t, that guy needs help. Signing off from the chatroom.
Hi, I’m Wendell Wagner, and I’ve just found a SDMB thread that was revived after two and a half years of being dead. Because of the rotting state of the thread, I can offer it to you at a huge discount. Normally a thread like this would cost $5 million, but I can sell it to you for just $2,999,999.99. How can you resist such a great bargain? Send me a private message and I’ll tell you how you can deposit the money in my bank account now and get the thread in just a few days.
Nice chatting with you. NOT!
