How common is it for sellers to list item as925 silver or 18k gold platted or gold without marks?

[cut_sgu_62sy7rjf4]

How common is it for sellers ro list an item as 925 silver, 18k gold plated, 10 k gold etc.  and item received without any marks or stamping on them. Also jewelry listed as CRYSTAL but are plastic?

[ypdc_dennis]

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@cut_sgu_62sy7rjf4 wrote:

How common is it for sellers to list an item as 925 silver, 18k gold plated, 10 k gold etc.  and item received without any marks or stamping on them. Also jewelry listed as CRYSTAL but are plastic?

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If the price is too good to be true, and the seller is not in your home country , then at least 92.5% common fakery...

The photos/scans of the item should show any quality marks. If they don't, then keep looking.

Anything that says plated, really means base metal with a thin coat of metal paint (if an honest offer, it has real metal in the plated coat) -- and those (if the seller is honest) will not have any marks.

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[reallynicestamps]

There is an international market for bullion of any metal.

If the price of the item is below the bullion price, it is plated/filled or there is less gold/silver than the seller is claiming.

I believe that most plating is done with pure sliver or gold, but there is so little of the precious metal that it is irrelevant.

Also watch out for modifiers like German Silver or Tibetan Silver. Those are not silver at all but pot metal with a silvery colour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_silver