SoonIHope
Ideal_Rock
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After having had my ring almost a year (eeek) I am realizing I really need to get this baby insured!
First, backstory: A number of months ago (spring I think?), I contacted Bill Castro (recommended here) who was extremely nice and helpful and told me he could get the ring insured essentially as soon as I provided him with an independent appraisal - which I didn''t have at the time. I searched PS, heard great things about Justin Krall, and contacted him by email. He replied (by email) that day or the next and we proceeded to discuss when I could come by. After another email or two he asked me which of two days would be better for me. I replied "Tuesday" and suggested a time. I never heard back from him. I called him on both Monday & Tuesday, along with sending an additional email (or two), but his phone was apparently disconnected (?) and there was an odd automated message indicating that we could not leave a message either. I sent him another email (or two) after Tuesday passed, indicating that there had been phone problems and asking if the appraisal could be set for the next week. Again, I didn''t hear back from him, at which point I basically got sick of messing with it all, and have not seriously tried to get the ring appraised in the intervening months. The reason I tell this story is because I was just searching on PS for another NYC appraiser and saw that another PSer had a similar experience with Justin in June of this year (with the same phone issues as well), so I searched for his name, and then came across this thread which someone indicated that they believed to be about him as well (the appraiser in question is left unnamed).
Now, after my unpleasant experience with simply trying to get ahold of him a number of months ago, in addition to the story above which may or may not be about him, I have decided definitely not to go with him. While he may really have been having phone and/or email issues, and I have no concrete reason not to go with him, the experience has just left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, so I want to just begin this fresh without any lurking doubts. Also, he has been removed from the Pricescope list of appraisers, which doesn''t do much to alleviate my concerns.
But the other horror stories listed in that thread are making me nervous about completely starting from scratch!!! Just Appraisers, the other recommendation I have seen here, also had a negative story in that thread, although they did post in response and try to make right by the PSer with a bad experience, so perhaps that was isolated?
Long story short: does anyone have any good recommendations for NYC appraisers? We don''t have a car, so it would have to be somewhere subway-accessible (aka not Long Island, where several people made recommendations that I saw in my searches)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
First, backstory: A number of months ago (spring I think?), I contacted Bill Castro (recommended here) who was extremely nice and helpful and told me he could get the ring insured essentially as soon as I provided him with an independent appraisal - which I didn''t have at the time. I searched PS, heard great things about Justin Krall, and contacted him by email. He replied (by email) that day or the next and we proceeded to discuss when I could come by. After another email or two he asked me which of two days would be better for me. I replied "Tuesday" and suggested a time. I never heard back from him. I called him on both Monday & Tuesday, along with sending an additional email (or two), but his phone was apparently disconnected (?) and there was an odd automated message indicating that we could not leave a message either. I sent him another email (or two) after Tuesday passed, indicating that there had been phone problems and asking if the appraisal could be set for the next week. Again, I didn''t hear back from him, at which point I basically got sick of messing with it all, and have not seriously tried to get the ring appraised in the intervening months. The reason I tell this story is because I was just searching on PS for another NYC appraiser and saw that another PSer had a similar experience with Justin in June of this year (with the same phone issues as well), so I searched for his name, and then came across this thread which someone indicated that they believed to be about him as well (the appraiser in question is left unnamed).
Now, after my unpleasant experience with simply trying to get ahold of him a number of months ago, in addition to the story above which may or may not be about him, I have decided definitely not to go with him. While he may really have been having phone and/or email issues, and I have no concrete reason not to go with him, the experience has just left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, so I want to just begin this fresh without any lurking doubts. Also, he has been removed from the Pricescope list of appraisers, which doesn''t do much to alleviate my concerns.
But the other horror stories listed in that thread are making me nervous about completely starting from scratch!!! Just Appraisers, the other recommendation I have seen here, also had a negative story in that thread, although they did post in response and try to make right by the PSer with a bad experience, so perhaps that was isolated?
Long story short: does anyone have any good recommendations for NYC appraisers? We don''t have a car, so it would have to be somewhere subway-accessible (aka not Long Island, where several people made recommendations that I saw in my searches)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
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