Paying the balance

[Upgradable]

When having a piece made for you, when do you usually pay the balance?

 

[Tanzigrrl]

Since I always select my own stones and bring them in to have a piece custom-designed to suit them (and me!), I never pay until it is completed. Realistically, the artists that do my jewelry designs know me and know I'm coming back for it. Should I ever be asked for a deposit, though, I'd be happy to pay up to half of it, up front.

 

[vc10um]

The only custom work I've ever had done was through DanielM, and I paid the balance of the projects after receiving pictures of the finished pieces in the Etsy listings.

 

[Upgradable]

I have always made a deposit, although sometimes the fact that they have my stone is enough of a deposit for them. Then I pay the balance when I have finished pictures, multiple angles, of the finished project. I have sent pieces back for tweaking after the fact, and the jeweler has always been quite accommodating.

 

[yennyfire]

I have always made a deposit, although sometimes the fact that they have my stone is enough of a deposit for them. Then I pay the balance when I have finished pictures, multiple angles, of the finished project. I have sent pieces back for tweaking after the fact, and the jeweler has always been quite accommodating.

This.

 

[iheartscience]

I have always made a deposit, although sometimes the fact that they have my stone is enough of a deposit for them. Then I pay the balance when I have finished pictures, multiple angles, of the finished project. I have sent pieces back for tweaking after the fact, and the jeweler has always been quite accommodating.

Ditto this.

 

[Upgradable]

I'd be interested to hear what different vendors have asked you to do for payment.

 

[Haven]

I didn't pay a dime for my upgrade until I had the finished ring on my hand. We were working with the same jeweler who made my original e-ring, which I traded in for the upgrade. He let me wear the original ring right up until the day I got my upgrade, and we didn't pay him the difference until that same day, too. I suppose my original ring could have served as a deposit in place of money, but I'm glad he didn't want it until we made the "trade". I would have been sad to be sans-ring for a while.