To explain a little more. I questioned company that the email picture they sent me did not look like the slab i ordered. The company says it is the same slab and sometimes the pictures look different. Should I be worried,I dont know....am I ok with both??? Wondering if I have been looking at slabs so long that i might be going a little loopy!

I'd say no, not same.

I have a question just for my own education. Are slabs only one-sided; they're selected based on one finished side or something?

Totally different.
However, I'd be happy with either one. But I'd also say something to them, "no they are different, but that slab is okay."

Doesn't look like the same slab although probably the same lot.. if you look at the top left corner of the slab you picked, there is very little in the way of veins but the slab they sent you has veins at all 4 corners. I actually prefer the second slab because of it's more uniform markings.

Benj, the back side usually is rough and looks more like well...a rock. Cruddy, nothing really showing up. There are exceptions of course, but the unfinished side won't look anything like the slabs pictured above.

Both slabs are nice, but you want the one you actually looked at that has no weird holes the new one might have!

Obviously not the same.

They must think you're an idiot if you'll believe those are the same slabs. That said, the second one is a little more uniform, and might end up a better choice.

Totally different slabs. Both very nice, but very different.

I like the 2nd slab better also - beautiful. Did you choose the slab in person or from a picture? It does look like it is from the same lot.

Not the same.

Sometimes the pictures look different, that's funny. You can see the bands, where and how they arch and count them. No, not the same but yes - wow they are both beautiful! I like #2 also.

Thanks everyone. I didn't feel like getting an argument with the girl at the desk (who was not the one who showed me the slab). I wasn't too upset about it thou because I too liked the slab that she showed me in the email when she placed the order to go to fabrication. I am getting two slabs and I didnt get a pic of the 2nd slab so maybe that's the one that is in the email. I've seen so many slabs I'm just tired of it...I thought I was going crazy when she told me it was the same slab.

i like #2 also

Since you are getting two slabs, if I am reading all this correctly perhaps the picture is of the other slab, not the one you have a picture of?

You are being cery nice. The first slab definitely has more color and movement. Since they are game playing when you show up at or before the templating if you don't like it OR upon closer inspection there is an issue in the stone, get the fabricator to get the stoneyard to swap the slabs before proceeding. Be really pushy if need be... If they try to stick you for more costs, demand a discount if you have their screwup.... Of course they will insist that will also take more time and you'll be delayed in your schedule…