Waiting. For the last two years there has been mostly waiting. Will they come this time, or not? Will they place orders or only buy single products? Lately, if they bought something at all, they would buy only single items. And even then only on condition that it was possible to re-sell them, before they even bought them. The times are strange: there are huge fluctuations in amber prices, along side that professional wholesalers are disappearing, whose place is taken by more or less accidental sellers from internet selling platforms. There has also been a general decline in the interest in jewellery altogether, not to mention such jewellery as amber… For the last few years the amber world seems to be abiding by its own rules… It is more and more difficult to function in that world…