LaraOnline
Ideal_Rock
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Please allow me a small rant for a sec.
I took in my lovely vintage amethyst trillion cab earrings, set in 18k YG.
The owner of the store takes one look and says, 'oh they're probably gold plate'.
I point out the mark, which he says is an unusual mark (the stamp is '18K')
He then goes on at great length to tell me about a company in Bankok called 18K, and how they sell to gullible ebay buyers.
He has to do a scratch test to prove it is 18k gold...
fuming inside, I waited while he defaced my earrings.
To my utter NON surprise, they were 18k.
I am so annoyed. I feel he went out of his way to humiliate me, merely to prove the point that I didn't buy them in his store!
I told him (pleasantly I hope) that I felt he was trying to make me learn a lesson of shopping only at retail.
(I bought them from a gemmologist-qualified antique dealer several years ago).
He replied that shopping local kept people employed.
When I responded, ' well you wouldn't stock earrings of this style', he replied that he could make me anything I wanted.
All I wanted was to enquire about having the clip on converted.
The conversation was over. He retreated to his back room, and I managed to tell his assistant that I didn't think we should bury lovely jewellery with the older generation.
In my opinion, fixing up estate stuff is part of his job.
Yes the economy is bad...yes small business is struggling....
but HUMPH!
I took in my lovely vintage amethyst trillion cab earrings, set in 18k YG.
The owner of the store takes one look and says, 'oh they're probably gold plate'.
I point out the mark, which he says is an unusual mark (the stamp is '18K')
He then goes on at great length to tell me about a company in Bankok called 18K, and how they sell to gullible ebay buyers.
He has to do a scratch test to prove it is 18k gold...
fuming inside, I waited while he defaced my earrings.
To my utter NON surprise, they were 18k.
I am so annoyed. I feel he went out of his way to humiliate me, merely to prove the point that I didn't buy them in his store!
I told him (pleasantly I hope) that I felt he was trying to make me learn a lesson of shopping only at retail.
(I bought them from a gemmologist-qualified antique dealer several years ago).
He replied that shopping local kept people employed.
When I responded, ' well you wouldn't stock earrings of this style', he replied that he could make me anything I wanted.
All I wanted was to enquire about having the clip on converted.
The conversation was over. He retreated to his back room, and I managed to tell his assistant that I didn't think we should bury lovely jewellery with the older generation.
In my opinion, fixing up estate stuff is part of his job.
Yes the economy is bad...yes small business is struggling....
but HUMPH!