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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 11117212, member: 4654&quot;]And here lies the problem with opal bought online, it&#039;s almost impossible to tell what kind of photo was taken, with what photo enhancements. My photos were taken without any photoshop on a inexpensive mobile phone with no special lighting. If I had taken them using sunlight the opals would have looked better because sunlight is white light thus all the colours would show. TBH without it in my hand I couldn&#039;t possibly tell, I buy my opals from opal auctions, the very strict rules on sellers means 3 strikes and your out, all sellers have a no quibble returns policy, most say what light and camera was used ect. Most sellers on there sell opals at the price the quality demands. so if they know it&#039;s poor quality the price is adjusted because the last thing they want is a return. Opal value is a minefield, it&#039;s not just ct weight, there are so many considerations to take into account and then you have sellers own prospective on it&#039;s value. Normally brightness is the number one factor, recently I paid far more for a lot of rough (uncut) opals because the well known rough opal seller had bunched all the brightest opals in one lot. pattern, colours, directional, size, clearness, what mine it was mined in and really what the seller want&#039;s for it. I think the biggest problem in the UK is buyers don&#039;t really know much about them, I show people here in the UK opals I&#039;ve done and they say they have never seen opals like that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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