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Q
1.I bid on your 1/2 lb of emeralds. if I did get some good stuff, 
where would I sell it and how would I get the largest profit out of them?

A. The place to sell is back on ebay, Its the fastest, easiest and has the least expense.
Your purchase price was $20.00 including s&h.

Method 1. If you just repackaged these in 1 oz packages and sold them at $5.00 + $3.50 s&h
you would make $6.00 +/oz x 8 = $48.00, $28.00 profit. Thats doubling your money without
leaving your home. As good or better as most retail stores.
By Sorting to the level of use, you would multiply the value much more.

Method 2. The largest profit:
Would be to complete the processing from gemstone rough to a faceted gem, then
combine with a few small accent diamonds, on a gold setting. 
I recently went to a jewelry store and priced some 4mm emerald post earrings,
The gold settings could be purchased for $26.00/pr. the finished earrings ranged
from $395.00/pr for some translucent light green ones, to $1,500 for the same setting 
and size emerald (4mm) but the stones were excellent color cut and clarity with
fantastic sparkle. This was in a high class jewelry store in an uptown mall.
The trick on e-bay would be in having professional level photography.
Start it low, and have a reserve. 
When you get really good you could also sell locally, or in a city gallery on consignment.

Method 3. Make cabachons, and put in gold or silver settings. 
The price isn't as high but the processing is a lot easier.
You would get a lot more useable cabochons from the 1/2 lb than faceted gems. 
Facet what you can, and make cabochons 
from most of the rest, use the others as tips for waitresses. 
Wire wrap nice crystal shapes.
The formulae is to process rough material into finished product.
Actually you can sell product from any step in the processing from rough to finished jewelry.
Rough--select rough or smaller quantities.
facet grade---preforms
preforms----cut stones
slabs---- preforms----cabochons
cut stones----& settings 
set stones----finished jewelry
raw gold or silver----cast or fabricated settings
wax ---- molds----blanks----rough settings ----polished settings,
of the lost wax casting process.
The jeweler at your local store probably only sets stones, Some fabricate settings, 
Very few jewelers facet stones. Very few gemologists facet stones.
(Note) to be qualified to judge a rough stone for faceting, you should know how to facet.
Cabochons are much easier, and don't require nearly as good a stone.
A faceted stone has to be transparant to allow the light to enter the table,
reflect off the pavillion main facets, and reflect back out the table. This 
requires the stone to have enough depth to form the pavilion facets as well as the 
table facets above the girdle.
A cabochon on the other hand, doesn't need the pavillion depth, nor the clarity, as
its value comes from the surface polish, color, and translucency that may allow light to
come through the back to make a glow.
Even the pattern of inclusions can add to its value. I cut one for our mailman recently,
a 10mm x 14mm x 2mm thick square Cabochon, light green, but its value was in the inclusions
which formed the surface image of an eagle carrying a salmon over green water. 
Set in a silver ring, {his setting}, it came out very nice. 
I traded it for a truckload of pine lumber.

Q:I received my emeralds So what do I do with them?
A:Whats Next?