I bought amethyst, tiger eye, etc. from a well-known store today.
But then I was worried because they were more expensive on the internet.
Are the stones fake?
I am not an horary expert, but I am a very knowledgeable in rocks. Have the stones at normal room temperature. Not in the sun or near a heat source. Have a piece of your known fake stone jewellery in the same spot. Touch the known fake to your lip. Feel the temperature. Do the same with the stones you bought. Is there a difference in temperature. If the temperature is the same as the fake, it is probably fake, if they are colder they are probably real.
Also, a well known rock store, really wouldn’t try to sell fake quartz as quartz. It is a common stone. Semi precious. Quartz is inexpensive to buy wholesale, sometimes cheaper than fake. Makes no sense.
Mercury (the quesited signified by the second house) is in an unfavorable house in scorpio, where he is peregrine, i.e. not strong. Peregrine comes from the Latin pelegrinus which means something like alien, foreigner and stranger . Then we have to look if he is receiving Jupiter or Moon in any dignities to find out how he effects you - if he is good for you, in other words if he is "trustworthy". He doesn't receive Jupiter but Moon by fall (poorest place for the moon). For me it's a clear: Fake!