I have never been a customer of Gemporia, but I am a long time customer with the Liquidation Channel for 9 years. I bought one item from HSN and from here, the Q, I bought 3 items, one of them returned. However, I still have my sterling silver pear earrings, high polished and still beautiful like the day I received them, and my most recent purchase: a wooden snowflake ornaments by Ellen De Generes. They are beautiful.