Just want to give everyone shopping a head's up.  The color of the stones I received were actually much less "red" and more brown/orange.  Not really what I expected.  I purchased it for someone who has a lot of red in their wardrobe.  But, I don't think the actual color of these stones will match anything red.  That being said, the quality of the sterling and setting is nice for the price.  It is unfortunate that the stones look so terribly dull.  I guess I just need to buy a matching brown/orange outfit to go with these "garnet?" earrings.  sigh...