Budget Rhinestones

Lioness

Lioness

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Can anyone give some insight into the quality of various budget stones?

Have tried Elite Crystals and was very impressed, but the exchange rate from US to AUD isn't so great at the moment and a pack ends up being about $80.

Has anyone seen either Rhinestoneguy's "home brand" stones or rhinestonz.co.nz "arabesque" stones? I think RG works out to about $30/10 gross USD and rhinestonz are about $60 NZD (but the exchange rate to here is much better)

I'm not really wanting to pay more than $50-$60 a pack. Im happy to accept lower quality (and swarovski is so far out of my price range it's not funny), but I'd like them to not be super bad like plastic ones.
 
Lioness said:
Can anyone give some insight into the quality of various budget stones?

Have tried Elite Crystals and was very impressed, but the exchange rate from US to AUD isn't so great at the moment and a pack ends up being about $80.

Has anyone seen either Rhinestoneguy's "home brand" stones or rhinestonz.co.nz "arabesque" stones? I think RG works out to about $30/10 gross USD and rhinestonz are about $60 NZD (but the exchange rate to here is much better)

I'm not really wanting to pay more than $50-$60 a pack. Im happy to accept lower quality (and swarovski is so far out of my price range it's not funny), but I'd like them to not be super bad like plastic ones.
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Lioness, at least here, in Los Angeles at Bohemian Crystal, it also depends on what color and coating your looking for? Is it crystal AB? regardless of manufacturer?
 
Actually, according to the USPS I could ship to Australia for about $24 flat rate up to 4 pounds. My preciosa source has been around $50-60/10 gross for ss20s.
 
mindputtee said:
Actually, according to the USPS I could ship to Australia for about $24 flat rate up to 4 pounds. My preciosa source has been around $50-60/10 gross for ss20s.
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Oooh I'm down with this. Only thing is how fast the postage option is, bc as usual I've left things semi last minute and I've got a comp on the 22nd of March.
 
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