Fifty Dollar Swarovski 6202 Emerald Heart? try 65 cents!

This is my story about a very suspicious listing.
 I was trying to buy Alexandrite. Found a seller that said they were from QVC. Having never bought from QVC I hardly think of QVC as a quality gemstone supplier. That already sounded strange.

The listing did not have much about clarity (said were loupe clean), and nothing whatsoever about  natural or lab created, nor country of origin.
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The Emerald ad said.... TOP QUALITY STONES

These are some of the highest quality stones you'll find. All of the gems in this package are loupe clean, super-scratch/chip resistant, and feature a hardness rating at or above 8.5. All the stones in the package share a rich, brilliant, green color and match nearly perfectly to each other. They are bright the way you see them in the pictures and will "pop" in your jewelry creations. None are dark or some cheap quality - all of them are crisp and clear.

We are not allowed to use the factory pictures so that the manufacturer can remain anonymous and their existing customers protected.

End of what the ad said...

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When speaking of Alexandrites, Russian are the best. Then there are those from Sri Lanka, India and Brazil. These stones from these countries are not the same as Russian. Russia has FEW Alexandrites, and thus lab created are most stones.

And there are some rough crystal equivalents. But not very good likeness, in my opinion.

I like to know what I am buying.
Don't know much about Alexandrites. But I sure would not buy from THIS seller.

I checked out the seller..deepbluediscounts other items.
They listed emeralds..also QVC but had a Swarovski emblem too.

I won't bother listing all the emeralds and prices..yeah they had (ME) believe they were real, and listed a bunch of hundreds of dollar price for each stone, then they added a

 10 mm Swarovski heart --- valued at fifty dollars---    

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Well an internet search shows a 10mm Swarovski emerald heart 6202 sells for sixty five cents at Jewelry Supply dot com  Not fifty dollars. On listing 280157353348 the seller said this heart was a $50 value.

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The seller listed these items the same day (one day sale) and two of the emerald lots sold in just a few minutes. They sold 22 emerald gems, 16.42 carats QVC for $34.70  with free shipping.

The seller alleges they get stones QVC is melting base metals and they are recovering the stones.

Sounds funny to me.