Maybe I''m being silly but I was truely just shocked about the price for sizing a ring DH will be giving me for Christmas. It is an art deco piece that is platinum, all my pieces are in WG so I have never had to deal with plat prices.
I just reiceved the ring a couple of weeks ago and it has been needing to get sized. It is going up two sizes (6.5 now need it for an 8.5 for a RHR) which I know that adds to cost and it is plat another add. I definatly want someone with a good rep to size it since it is such a delicate older piece. I have taken other jewelry to a guy in town to fix and he did an good job but I chose not to use him again because last time I went into see about sizing this particular ring and I asked him if he could just make sure everything looked ok I was NOT looking for an apprasial just that he would maybe do a heat test on the diamonds to see if it was what I paid for then we could get to business but he cut me off imidiatly and said I dont do apprasials and I understood that and he just kept cutting me off and saying the same thing over and over and usually I am can deal with a lot but he really made me frustrated and hurt my feelings over a simple question I was asking him. So that started my journey to look for somewhere else to take it to be sized.
We just moved here about six months ago so I was asking around to see where else would be a reputible place to take it that could take care of it and that does great work and I came up with the store that my ring is right now sitting waiting to be sized and they gave me my quote and I about sucked my teeth in. She quoted me $236.00 and I just looked at DH like what do we do? and he said well it has to be done which is true (To size one size up in plat starts at $158.00 and goes up from there is what she said). Usually when it comes to something that has to be done I just suck it up and pay it but I guess with this I was just surprised at how much it cost to size the ring. And so I left it to be sized.
Like I said I know:
A) Its an older piece and is deicate so it would possibly take extra time to work on.
B) Its Platinum
C) It is going UP 2 sizes
I guess I would just like some feedback on is this price normal?! Am I stressing out? Like I said I know nothing about platinum as all my pieces are in WG, but can someone shed some light on this for me? I really really dont want to go back to the guy in town esp after he hurt my feelings but I don''t know if he would be a whole lot cheaper and still to maybe the same work.
Am I getting ripped off do I need to go get my ring back asap and get more quotes or is this normal and I just need to leave it where it is?
I just reiceved the ring a couple of weeks ago and it has been needing to get sized. It is going up two sizes (6.5 now need it for an 8.5 for a RHR) which I know that adds to cost and it is plat another add. I definatly want someone with a good rep to size it since it is such a delicate older piece. I have taken other jewelry to a guy in town to fix and he did an good job but I chose not to use him again because last time I went into see about sizing this particular ring and I asked him if he could just make sure everything looked ok I was NOT looking for an apprasial just that he would maybe do a heat test on the diamonds to see if it was what I paid for then we could get to business but he cut me off imidiatly and said I dont do apprasials and I understood that and he just kept cutting me off and saying the same thing over and over and usually I am can deal with a lot but he really made me frustrated and hurt my feelings over a simple question I was asking him. So that started my journey to look for somewhere else to take it to be sized.
We just moved here about six months ago so I was asking around to see where else would be a reputible place to take it that could take care of it and that does great work and I came up with the store that my ring is right now sitting waiting to be sized and they gave me my quote and I about sucked my teeth in. She quoted me $236.00 and I just looked at DH like what do we do? and he said well it has to be done which is true (To size one size up in plat starts at $158.00 and goes up from there is what she said). Usually when it comes to something that has to be done I just suck it up and pay it but I guess with this I was just surprised at how much it cost to size the ring. And so I left it to be sized.
Like I said I know:
A) Its an older piece and is deicate so it would possibly take extra time to work on.
B) Its Platinum
C) It is going UP 2 sizes
I guess I would just like some feedback on is this price normal?! Am I stressing out? Like I said I know nothing about platinum as all my pieces are in WG, but can someone shed some light on this for me? I really really dont want to go back to the guy in town esp after he hurt my feelings but I don''t know if he would be a whole lot cheaper and still to maybe the same work.
