tl;dr: Recommended for a cheaper option for Pandora beads!

I bought this for my mother for her Pandora bracelet. I was hoping to find an inexpensive way to fill her bracelet. I purchased this bead based on other reviews, and I'm very happy with it. It indeed is very sparkly (though not QUITE as sparkly as I had hoped, but still, it glistens in the light). It also fits nicely on the bracelet, but it wasn't as large as my mother's beads of similar shape (the round/oval shape). I didn't tell her it wasn't a "real" Pandora bead, and she didn't seem to notice; she was just thrilled to have another bead and went to work right away figuring out how she wanted to arrange it in with her other beads. I am very pleased with the purchase and would purchase again from this seller.

Also, I noticed that the hole in this bead was larger than the other beads' holes. When she put it on her bracelet, she didn't have to "screw" it on like she had to do with her "real" Pandora beads. She didn't seem to care or notice, but I noticed. So if you are buying this for someone who would care about that kind of thing, just beware that it may not function similarly to the real Pandora beads in this regard.