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Straight from the pearl
farms to our offices in Los
Angeles...
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 At PearlParadise.com we
pride ourselves on having
one of the largest pearl
inventories in the United
States. With a full range of
cultured Akoya pearls, South
Sea and Tahitian pearls, and
freshwater pearls, our
inventory exceeds 1,000,000
pearls. This is equivalent
to more than 17,000 strands,
or almost 1000 pounds of
pearls! All of our inventory is
stored on our premises in a
custom-built, 1400-cubic-foot vault.
While more than 99% of our
customers shop happily
online at
www.pearlparadise.com, our
local customers here in Los
Angeles love the experience
of combing through thousands
of pearl strands to find the
perfect piece to fit their
taste. The strand is then
strung, while they wait,
with a solid gold clasp of
their choice. With such a
tremendous inventory, we
also allow our customers to
choose individual pearls
from our large vault of
undrilled, loose pearls. We
then drill the pearls, and
mount them into a setting of
their choice, expertly
completed within 15 minutes.
The PearlParadise experience
has made its own name here
in the Los Angeles area, and
we have proudly provided
fine pearl jewelry to over 200 celebrities, many
of whom are repeat shoppers
and swear by the
PearlParadise brand.
 The reason we carry such a
large inventory is simple:
Our pearls are the best
value in the United States,
and we sell more pearls than
any other single pearl store
in the country. Because we
source and sell our pearls
on such a high-volume basis,
we are able to offer the top
quality pearls at prices
unparalleled by any other
retail outlet. Price for
quality, we have no
competition - period.
Our founder, Jeremy
Shepherd, personally travels
to Asia and the Far East
several times each year, and
consistently brings back
more than 4,000 strands of
loose pearls to our offices.
Each of these loose strands
that he and his assistant
hand-select from the
absolute top percentage of
every harvest are
hand-carried back to the
United States, and expertly
strung and finished locally.
Compared to a jewelry store,
our company is structured
very differently. Selling at
such a high volume allows
Pearl Paradise to source in
bulk directly from pearl
farms, which means we are
paying dramatically less for
our pearls than other pearl
sellers. Providing us with
an added edge, we are the
only consumer-direct pearl
retailer in the world that
owns a pearl farm in China.
Being internet-based, we
reach a far broader
(national and international)
customer base than a small,
local brick-and-mortar store
possibly can. Additionally,
although our showroom/office
is nearly 3000 square feet,
we operate primarily as an
office, so our overhead is
much less. Whereas a
traditional storefront
requires expensive retail
space, display cases,
security, staffing, and
advertising, we've
eliminated these costly
expenses, which has an great
impact on pricing. Lastly,
with online orders coming in
continuously from all over
the country and the world,
our turnover is so quick
that we never add the
typical 300% profit margin
that jewelry stores do - our
profit margins are trimmed
down so that you get the
best deal the first time you
shop.
Ultimately, we want our
customers to make educated
choices when shopping for
pearls. We always encourage
our customers to compare our
pearls to the ones for sale
in their local jewelry shop
or department store, so that
they can see for themselves
what the same strand,
identical in size, color,
and quality, would cost at
regular retail prices.
Whenever they do, those
happily surprised customers
come back to us with glowing
words.
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