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Beautiful!!!! I think I am falling into the Amber-Fever!!!!!!
Don`t do it, Eva. It can make you very sick and poor!
The cheap plastic "amber" may well be produced by what amounts to slave labour and is also highly mechanised - it involves no skill and no rarity value.
I have seen amber in Russia, much of it very processed. I think that they rely on tourists who want to take home their bit of amber because it`s traditional.
I still find online sales are the best value.
Thanks for your advice which made me laugh loud. Of course you are right.... What surprises me are the enormeous differences in Prices! I once bought in Russia an amber bracelet (silver bracelet with a few Baltic Amber Pendants of approx. 2 x 1 cm), that was 20 years ago, and it was very expensive (approx. 200.00 Swiss Francs). Now they sell "real amber" necklaces for Euros 7.00 - very unrealistic. Even if it is fake, it should be more expensive. Or is this plastic? I just wonder. (Meanwhile I checked Sarah's article about how to detect real or not real amber), I guess the very cheap ones are Polystyrene. (Again it makes me smile, because I used to work for BP - not the gasoline department, but the one which sells Polystyrene and similar products from the Mineral oils. I used to sell Polystyrene by railway-wagons to factories... (loved that Job), before I changed to another branch.
And now I read sometimes amber is made of Polystyrene...... what a coincidence! (or it is one of These Chinese plastic things you mentioned).