ebay posts Warnings about cheap jewelry
ebay
has warning about silver marked 925 from overseas. many items are
plated and stamped sterling 925 only to find the plate wears off weeks
later after you left positive feedback with some containing cadmium. Most
of the cadmium produced today is obtained from zinc byproducts and
recovered from spent nickel-cadmium batteries. Jewelry from overseas has
been using cadmium (old batteries) to sell goods to the USA and also
find a way to dump toxic waste material on the open market.
For info on this, GOOGLE: "cadmium jewelry scam" or "ebay silver warning"