I was worried about the quality I would get, buying pearl jewelry so inexpensively online. I could not have been more pleasantly surprised!
These are, indeed, freshwater pearls, but it's not horribly obvious to anyone not looking very closely that these are not perfectly round. There are no "odd-ball" pearls on my strand, all of them seem perfectly matched and even.
I've wanted pearls for quite some time, and am absolutely thrilled with this particular find.