.	Dwarves' Earth Treasures Online Rock Shop: Important Notices and Ordering Information	.

Important Notices:
    All agates I have for sale are already cut and polished, and they are as they are (mostly halves of varying thickness, some are slabs, some with clipped backs). Almost all of them were cut from the agate roughs I have obtained. Due tothe difficulty of obtaining any good agate roughs, I regret that I cannot sell roughs nor rough cuts.
    All agates are scanned with Epson Perfection 1660 Photo Scanner, which almost got the colors right, but they may look better under sunlight. Using the scanner was easier and less time-consuming than a digital camera. When using the digital camera, it's hard to get the well-polished agates positioned without making them behave like mirrors or glaring reflections coming off their mirror-like polished surfaces as I found out trying to take pictures of agates with polished curving surfaces. With the scanner I was able to scan a lot of agates at once instead of having to take a picture of one agate at a time with the camera.

     The problem with the scanner is that they provide only 2D pictures that cannot show the thickness of each agate specimens. Because of that, I cannot guarantee that each agate will be the way you expect them to be. There are some agate specimens that have been cut from partially broken nodules which often results in one whole half and one half  with "clipped back" (where exposed broken face was). With that in mind, you can ask me to take a picture of the backs of the agates you are interested in.

   The agates themselves tend to be bit more detailed than what are shown in the pictures and some hard-to-see fractures may be not noticeable in the pictures, so examine any pictures of agates very carefully and it is possible that I may forget to mention a minor fracture or something like that.. Be aware that the just because an agate look big in a picture doesn't mean that it's a big specimen, so it helps to pay attention to the measuring rules on the bottom of each picture.
    I have received many comments about how well the agates have been polished to the point of being almost mirror-like, and few even added that they can see their tooth molars when holding the agates up. They were grinded with few kinds of silicon carbide discs on rotating 8" lap machine and polished with tripoli on duck canvas. See an example of the polished agate below.

Ordering Information:
    -When you find any agates you're interested in, please make a list by writing down or copy their code names (for example: DRY001-$25) and email the list to me and you can ask for about the backs of interested agates in case you are looking for whole halves.
    -Wait for me to email back to you with which agate is available for sale, the total quota and shipping costs. I can do only USPS 1st Class or Priority Mail and there is no local UPS nor FedExpress stores in my area.
    - I accept the Paypal & money orders, and please check with me to see if I accept checks/cheque or not. I can accept the checks only when I'm in Michigan during Summers and Falls (I can't cash them in Arizona in Winters and Springs). The checks/cheques will take a week to be cleared and once they're cleared they'll be shipped to you.
   -To avoid any possible problems resulting from any orders made, I encourage anyone to ask questions about the agates before getting serious about buying them.
  - I do some rock shows so it can happen that that I may have already sold some agates that you wanted to order as well as possible mistakes I may have made. That's why its best to send me the list of agates you're interested in and wait for me to reply with what is available before making any payments.

    Now, let's suppose you received the agates you paid for, but it turned out that you didn't like some of what you got.  Please let me know about that so we can work that out. I would be happy to take back the ones you don't like and refund what are paid for those. That is mainly due to the fact that unless you find me at a rock show, you couldn't inspect an agate firsthand before you decide to buy. It is recommanded that you contact me thru my "Email Me" button since we have been having cases of lost emails lately due to the Anti-Spam filters not working right.