@dassauerkraut @Soy_Magnus The big factories will send the best material to gemstone suppliers used by jewelers.
The mid-line material goes to factories mass producing cheap “silver” jewelry.
The low end stuff gets dumped on crystal shops and worse.
If you are a cutter specializing in really unusual shit or repairs or cutting matches to lost stones, you need a really diverse inventory of material so you can’t get into that wholesale game.
That’s where every bottom feeder tries to screw you.