This ^^^
Hi guys.
Seems like my purchase is going to be a failure.
I understand that buying offline is not a popular option at this forum. And I used to agree totally.
You expect to get something of higher quality (better cut) from a more competitive segment of industry at lower prices, you get 360-degree videos and patient consultations – that`s all fine.
Why pay tiffany 3x price, receive a who-knows-how-cut-and-graded stone in a fashionable box?
Yeaah, to me it also seemed illogical. But now it doesn`t.
May be it works if you plan 3-6 months beforehand and preferably live in the same country with your online vendor.
But if you are planning to propose on vacation next month, have a friend who is (un)luckily on a trip to the country of your vendor and is ready to help – what can go wrong? – anything.
1/ For personal reasons my friend asked to change a pickup location (it`s in the same city, 5 miles from the first one). The vendor made changes instantly, sent me a confirmation letter with the updated address. It was not in transit at that time. The vendor sent it later that day.
But the parcel arrived on the previous wrong one address. My friend spent an hour waiting in a queue to be told that the parcel is in another pickup point. He tried to get there the next day but he was late (what`s the hell with traffic in central Chicago on Satuday).
So now he left to NY for 2 days but, from my experience there is nothing that can be done by FedEx on the next day without failure.
2/ You receive pictures of the ring (together with the confirmation that it`s sent – lovely) where setting seems hugely different from the online pictures.
1 – is my ring. I conducted some poll among my friends. May be it`s only me who considers the prongs too big and feels like a tiny stone is embraced by giant paws. And how come that it resembles double prongs merged together.
Guess what, 100% voted they are too big and seem strange.
2, 3 – pictures of that setting.
But then you are advised by your vendor to pickup the ring and see how dainty prongs are in real life (because they may seem different online under high magnification)
I`m sorry picture #4 is also magnified. Which do you prefer? May be you have one set of prongs for .5ct and for 2.0ct – but how about tell me before. Because according to my small poll nobody likes the kind of prongs on my ring.
Or you are expected to receive it, ask the vendor to remake it and be ready to resend it back and forwards (filling forms, paying import duties and waiting, when some day you will get it). May be for the next wedding.
Failures happen, who is responsible? Of course, that`s me.
Going to buy something better and cheaper and hassle-free? No it just means you can`t afford to pay tiffany. Yes, they are greedy bastards, grade their products by themselves (lovely) and charge 3x price. But you can see immediately what you pay for, your gf is happy, most probably she never knows what`s the difference between angles, what`s an asset, and why ags is more informative than gia.
She gets a diamond ring in a stylish box – in 99% it`s more than enough.
And you sleep well. And it`s worth the price.
He is a tourist there, opted for Times Square
He is a tourist there, opted for Times Square
But still, ain`t the prongs look strange?
What`s the sense then?
Everybody here posted, that it looked strange. Replies are in the range from "you will get used to it" to "awful".
Thx. According to my friends words, he spent an hour in queue in FedEx near Chicago University)
It completely depends on how busy FedEx is at the time you try to pick up. Unfortunately, I imagine bigger cities have busier FedEx locations.
FedEx Chicago.
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