Incompitant sales staff?

[4ever]

I went to a fine jewlery auction with my FF last weekend to have a look around. There lots of stunning peices, many of which you would never usually be able to see or buy in New Zealand.

Anyway, I tryed on a lovely channel set full eternity band (it must have been abit over 1 ct tw) and made a comment about what a nice size it was for me.

The sales assistant piped up and told me that it could easily be resized for me anyway. I told him I didn''t think it could becuase it was a full eternity style.

Am I wrong? I was sure you can''t resize somthing like that, which is what would put me off a full eternity ring.

(As a side note, I really anoyed me that they were all so keen in spouting out the colour and clarity info of the daimonds but there was never a mention of cut. I can imagine there were afew people there forking out the average persons yearly wage on a poorly cut stone)

 

[diamondseeker2006]

I agree that he was giving you less than true information. If it was full eternity, it would be a major undertaking to size it. I''d never EVER buy a full eternity that wasn''t my exact size or just a little larger to allow for a small future finger size increase.

 

[4ever]

I think that''s quite sad then because he could have told the same thing to the person who actually bid on it and won who would be in for a big dissapointment. It''s not like a jewlery store where you could ask for another to be made or ordered in if they changed their mind and said it couldn''t be sized, at an auction if you buy it, that''s it.

 

[Rhea]

I went to an antique jewellery fair in London and the vendors there did that too. I was trying on an eternity band, which was a bit big and the sales woman, who was wearing her own eternity band, swore that it could be sized because hers had been twice. Maybe they can be sized just a bit, scrap out metal from the inside to make a bit larger, but she was talking about cutting and taking out 2-3 diamonds and putting the ring back together.

 

[oldmancoyote]

Well, to be honest, taking a diamond or two out is easy. When you need to take 1.75 out - then the fun begins.

(Everything can be resized - the question is how much does it cost and how good a job you want)