GIA Campus in New York

I spent almost one hour for the GIA Pearl exam, there are 50 single choice questions in the exam. The questions are not more difficult than the quiz of each chapter in GIA Pear course book. I read the pearl course book twice and didn't see any tough questions in the exam. I was advised to receive my exam score and GIA Pearl Certification in about one week.

Anxiously awaiting for my GIA Pearl certification . :-)

After I took the first photo below, I was warned by the security guy that it's not allowed to take photos inside of GIA. Therefore, this photo below is the only photo I took inside of GIA Campus. So disappointing......

GIA workroom in New York


Sneak photo in front of elevator


GIA Campus in NCY - Intersection of Madison Av. and East 39th St.


GIA Campus in NYC - Building entrance

Trip to New York to take final exam of GIA Pearl Certification

I was traveling to New York between Jul.13-16, 2007 to take the final exam of GIA Pearl certification. This is not my first time to go to NYC, but it's the first time to see and feel this super large metropolis in such a close distance.

Wall Street and Broadway intersection


New York Stock Exchange


World Trade Center 2007




Apple Store in NYC




Metropolitan Museum of Art


Time Square

Canada Buyers are able to track their Registered parcel online !

This is a great news to all our Canadian Buyers. All of our Registered Air Parcel shipping from China to Canada are able to be tracked on Canada Post's website: www.canadapost.ca

By default , we ship all of our parcels as Registered Air Parcel through local carrier, China Post. The Tracking information will be provided to buyer two/three days after parcel ships out. After a short period of transit time, normally, 4-5 days, the International parcel will arrive Canada Customs and Parcel's barcode will be scanned by the local sorting center, Canada Post. Since then, Canadian buyers will be able to see the tracking information on www.canadapost.ca

Buyers in USA are always able to track their Parcel on USPS's website: www.usps.com

Please see the screen shots below.

South Sea Pearl like dyed Freshwater Pearls

We just bought lots of new pearls from Pearl farm, some of them have very stunning beautiful color. Check this out : AAA 17.5" 9mm GOLDEN CULTURED FW PEARL NECKLACE 14K CLASP

When My Partner, Jacky , told me about this item, I was shocked. "What is that? 9mm south sea pearl ??" Finally, it turns out it's dye colored freshwater pearls. I have to admit their techniques of dying pearls really improved a lot. At the first glance, my eyes was fooled by the stunning color and I think it's golden color south sea pearl, of course the pearl size is too small for south sea pearls, which is at least more than 11mm in size. Anyway, generally speaking, the pearl surface, roundness, luster and matching are pretty good, especially the beaufiful golden color is very unique.

"How many stands does the pearl farmer have in their stock ? Order them all ..."

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Rare 13.5mm Freshwater Pearl Necklace

Want a larger size pearl necklace ? Check this out :

HUGE 17" 13.5mm TAHITIAN BLACK FW PEARL NECKLACE 14K
We bought this new items from Pearl farm at the end of April,2007 This pearl necklace features 12-13.5mm pearls in size, very good surface, roundness , luster and perfectly matching. It's very difficult to collect the same quality matching pearls in this size and knot this necklace. Plus, unlike cultured Akoya saltwater pearls, which have nuclear bead inside of the pearls, freshwater pearls are tissue-nucleated pearls, in another word, there is no nuclear bead inside of the pearl, the whole pearl is made of nacre. Therefore, thinking about a strand of all-nacred 12-13.5mm pearl necklace in your mind, then, take a look at the price tag. You will realize it's really a bargain.

We only have ONE strand of this stunning pearl necklace in store. No second chance offer !

eBay Store Promotion - 5% Off

Dear Pearl Fans:

We are having a Summer Time Promotion for Buy It Now items in our eBay store.

1. 5% off for Items
2. This promotion doesn't apply to the item with price less than $20.00 (Sorry about that, eBay charges too much service fees.)
3. The Promotion time starts at May,5,2007 and will be finished at Jun.17,2007

Please don't miss this chance. Enjoy your summar, enjoy your Pearls.

Our eBay store: http://stores.ebay.com/Pearl-Fashion-Trends

Received GIA Pearl Books today

Received Pearl course books from GIA (Gemological Institute of America) today.
Happy studying :-P

Founders of Ohpearl.com

Jacky Zhou (China)

• Bachelor Degree in Business Management
• 7 years of Sales and Marketing experience in IT & Telecommunication Industry
• Rich Experience in Pearl grading and purchasing
• Travel many times to Pearl Farm each year to order Pearls directly from Pearl Farmers
• Jakcy is in charge of purchasing and shipping management of Pearl Fashion Trends store, managing our 8 staffs workshop in Beijing
• Founder and owner of Tibet Gem Jewelry eBay store: Blue Lotus Jewelry

Jian,Christopher,Wang (Canada)

• Bachelor Degree in Communication Engineering
• 8 years of Network Engineering experience in IT & Telecommunication Industry
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
• Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA)
• Taking GIA Graduate Pearls Diploma class, will complete the course in months
• In charge of eBay account management and customer service of Pearl Fashion Trends store,
• Live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Why shopping at Ohpearl.com

For retailer and wholesalers who is looking for a time and cost effective shopping, please visite our online store: www.ohpearl.com

Why shopping at www.ohpearl.com ?

• All items are in BUY IT NOW mode.
• No need to compete your bid price with other customers
• Cost effective shipping charge, based on actual weight of the parcel
• 4 tiers of discount prices corresponding to 4 tiers of membership grades
• Every cent you spend can be accumulated and converted to membership points.
• Instant discount available for wholesalers
• Can accept direct Credit Card payments (coming soon)

Photos of our Trip to Pearl Farm

Most of our items are Cultured Freshwater Pearls. As you may have known that the Cultured pearls are grown on all kinds of pearl farms. In Pearl Farms, the pearl farmers manually nucleated hundreds of oysters and then cared for them over the 2-5 years for a pearl to grow and develop. If you are lucky enough the witness the Pearl harvest process when traveling to a pearl farm in a harvest season, you will feel very impressive of watching the Pearl harvesting oyster by oyster and the entire Pearl producing process, from Pearl oyster turn into semi-finished Pearl products. We travel to Pearl Farms almost every two months, our representatives go there to pick the high quality pearls, negotiate the wholesale price with Pearl Farmers and purchase the newly harvest quality pearls directly from the Pearl Farms. Please see these photos below, we took these photo on Jun.2nd,2006, when we are in a typical pearl farm in the south of China.

Pearl culturing

Pearl Bleaching

Pearl Polishing


Pearl Sorting


Jacky Zhou in Pearl Farm