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give us your long story if you want
Lol. I wish my smilies worked.lol
I blame everything on Percocet right now. I have Percocet brain and am making stupid decisions.
Beginning of story:
It all started in the middle of the night. Nights can be bad after my surgery and I find myself looking for aqua, pink sapphire, emerald and ruby round pairs 5.7-5.9mm that would fit in my
Brian Gavin jackets.
I found a gorgeous set of aquas at Africa gems. This was before/during/after Christmas.
He had set the ruby I previously bought in a Stuller crown setting, so I decided he could go ahead and set them, so I bought the stones and he sent me the link to pick out the settings.
That took a day or so (some of my early days were bad where I couldn’t even do such a task). I found the 4 prong baskets with guardian backs and sent him the link and he charged me. (I realized after the fact that I didn’t pay him a setting fee).
A few days later I got just the settings in the mail. Lol. Not set. Just the settings. I called and left a message. Two days later I received the stones in the mail. I also received an email from Marc apologizing as we don’t know where the miscommunication happened. It’s ok, in the end no big deal, and as I mentioned, I don’t recall specifically saying I would like him to set them, nor did I pay him to do so. (Which I would have done obviously).
Marc said if I had trouble finding someone to set them, send them back and he would.
Ok. So we have one bench in town. He is NEVER at his shop— it’s always something like oh it was a beautiful day and he hasn’t played golf in a while, so he left to go play a round. Things like that. But he does do nice work.
So I had my son bring me there, and you have to understand how things go around here— it can be a weird way of socializing with people and it can also be based on who is who. So I’m at one jeweler, but my neighbor owns another one (but the bench is the first jeweler who does the bench work for my neighbor).
So anyway, it’s freaking land mines around here and we are well known in town, so I was worried about just showing up with stones and setting and have to explain why I never went to him to begin with....... sigh.
So although I wanted a PS vendor to set the oval aqua and I’d mentioned it once, I decided to bring the oval aqua to this bench (will make it up to the PS vendor when I get my sapphire for a pendant) as a sort of carrot to dangle, like yeah, sorry for you to finish someone else’s work but here is a giant aqua and could you make a cad and set it too?
Well, the CAD person was there and I had brought my aqua ring with me to show him my style— he was so blown away by the design element and execution of it (
Brian Gavin) and said it was well above the norm for this town (no duh).
Well, the bench was out and something about something and something and could I just leave them all there and they would get back to me about cost and time and cad ($500 CAD charge by the way, which the bench could negotiate but since he wasn’t there, there is no way to know...)
After two days I called to check on everything and the CAD guy said the bench said 7-10 days and $90 to set the earrings (I gave the ok) and then said nothing about the CAD and oh is this my white gold ring setting in the envelope with my stuff (umm, no it’s not).
I blame it all on Percocet. The CAD guy was so thrilled about my aqua ring and the pics of my yellow sapphire (DK) that he actually thanked me for coming in and showing him, so I feel sorry for him and want to give him a chance. It all seems so screwey though.
So there, that is the long story lol. He didn’t even write down how much or how large the aqua is etc, so I casually took a pick of everything on his desk so I have proof of it all. Seems very disorganized.
