Toska
Shiny_Rock
- Joined
- Nov 2, 2003
- Messages
- 114
Why is it that only 1 in 5 mall jewellers carry a loupe which is 10x?
I can''t believe how most of the jewellers I visit only carry 3x loupes and when I ask for a 10x they gawk at me and give some sort of smartass reply. Their generic answer is "3x magnification is what we use to grade the stones, it is good enough"
This is the crap people must put up with when visiting a jeweller. Seriously, how stupid do they think the consumer is? They think they can tell us that the stone is well cut and is a F colour, when you would like to look closer, they give you a crappy 3x loupe! Is this some sort of trick, where they must hide the 10x loupe from customers, or do they really only have a 3x loupe???
These these shonky traders, I hope you go out of business. I have praise for the honest jewellers who provide all requested info.
I actually wanted to see on average how many jewellers in Melbourne would provide the sarin/crown & pavillion angles. Let me tell you not even ONE store in the city would provide them for me. 80% of the jewellers didn''t even know what I was talking about.
I was even locked in a store called the Australian Diamond Company, they have a lock on the door that only staff can use to let you in and out. I went in there and was giving the staff a hard time asking for crown & pavillion angles. I made a fool out of them in front of all of their customers, their manager would not unlock the door to let me out, he was desperately attempting to convince me that his stones were of the highest cut quality. When I asked for proof he would not and could not provide it. $8,881 USD for a 0.6 F SI1 he claimed was the cheapest price possible in Australia. He was calling me a liar when I flashed quotes from another vendor in front of his face. In the end, I made the manager and all of his staff looks like lying idiots, and the 10 customers in the store that had almost closed off sales with them ended up leaving!
I hope this is a lesson for all lying jewellers, they are worse than a used car salesman. I believe the jewellery industry needs a massive shake up, or the consumers need to be aware of how they are getting duped. In the end I think people just don''t care if they are getting tricked. I have a relative who just had a ''frozen spit/dead'' 2 carat ring bought for her by her fiance last week. They think it''s the best diamond going around and it does not even shine! My guess is that it would have a table of around 70 and depth of around 65, it''s a shocker. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The sad thing about many people these days is they think a $20,000 diamond is better than a $10,000 well cut diamond of equal stats, simply because it cost more.
What are your worst experience with mall jewellery stores?
I can''t believe how most of the jewellers I visit only carry 3x loupes and when I ask for a 10x they gawk at me and give some sort of smartass reply. Their generic answer is "3x magnification is what we use to grade the stones, it is good enough"
This is the crap people must put up with when visiting a jeweller. Seriously, how stupid do they think the consumer is? They think they can tell us that the stone is well cut and is a F colour, when you would like to look closer, they give you a crappy 3x loupe! Is this some sort of trick, where they must hide the 10x loupe from customers, or do they really only have a 3x loupe???
These these shonky traders, I hope you go out of business. I have praise for the honest jewellers who provide all requested info.
I actually wanted to see on average how many jewellers in Melbourne would provide the sarin/crown & pavillion angles. Let me tell you not even ONE store in the city would provide them for me. 80% of the jewellers didn''t even know what I was talking about.
I was even locked in a store called the Australian Diamond Company, they have a lock on the door that only staff can use to let you in and out. I went in there and was giving the staff a hard time asking for crown & pavillion angles. I made a fool out of them in front of all of their customers, their manager would not unlock the door to let me out, he was desperately attempting to convince me that his stones were of the highest cut quality. When I asked for proof he would not and could not provide it. $8,881 USD for a 0.6 F SI1 he claimed was the cheapest price possible in Australia. He was calling me a liar when I flashed quotes from another vendor in front of his face. In the end, I made the manager and all of his staff looks like lying idiots, and the 10 customers in the store that had almost closed off sales with them ended up leaving!
I hope this is a lesson for all lying jewellers, they are worse than a used car salesman. I believe the jewellery industry needs a massive shake up, or the consumers need to be aware of how they are getting duped. In the end I think people just don''t care if they are getting tricked. I have a relative who just had a ''frozen spit/dead'' 2 carat ring bought for her by her fiance last week. They think it''s the best diamond going around and it does not even shine! My guess is that it would have a table of around 70 and depth of around 65, it''s a shocker. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The sad thing about many people these days is they think a $20,000 diamond is better than a $10,000 well cut diamond of equal stats, simply because it cost more.
What are your worst experience with mall jewellery stores?
300x240.png)