Great review. I buy both authentic Pandora and Ali Express. In my opinion the biggest difference is in the colour of the silver. Ali Express often appears darker, more grey looking. Its great to see the comparisons up close like this, as just looking with the naked eye, it is indeed hard to see the differences. I always use a magnifying glass to bring up the details. I have been very happy with my Ali Express charms apart from the colour, but they also have very nice murano glass charms and coloured enamel ones which are a very good buy, in my opinion.
I only buy from Ali Express, the charms over $5 which do say on them that they are 925 stirling silver. From my experience, no coating has come off, and there is always a black mark on my silver cleaning cloth when I clean them, like real silver. But, honestly who knows, they could be only silver plated, but mine still look like new. I have, in the past bought a few that cost under a dollar and you can tell straight away they are just junk metal and horrible, which of course I just throw them away. @@lavalampa3254
I have an original pandora bracelet with charms from spring 2016 collection Retail Price 1000 € thats just insane for silver, I could by a real gold bracelet for that price. Pandora sells silver to gold prices and I don't want to pay that. As Pandora started their Rose gold plated charms and bracelets in 2017 the prices where the same as for the silver ones but now a rose gold plated bracelet retails for 179€ compared to the regular silver one for 59€. I bought for 47€ some "fake" Pandora jewelry it's so beautiful and of course 925 silver, If I had bought all that charms rings and earrings from Pandora a had spent over 600€
hello I have a doubt in the lower part of the "golden snitch charm" there is a small hole on the original one, while on the fake one there is not. is it right or I see wrong ?. thank you
