You guys are all thinking about popping the question but this story pertains to you...
My wife and I were married in October, 2004. We tried to buy two wedding bands at Finkle Jewelers in Albany, NY.
To make a long story short...we put down 50% of the total for both rings. I ended up keeping the ring that I picked out but my wife didn''t get what she ordered. The ring she wanted had just been sold so they ordered a blank to load some channel set diamonds into. The ring came and it was wrong. Mary Finkle, the owner, tried to tell me that I was under contract to buy the second ring. He also said that he''d give my wife a loaner ring for our wedding ceremony. The bottom line is I wanted to take my ring and get back the remaining balance of what we put down. He insisted that I was under contract and wouldn''t sell me the ring. I ended up walking out of the store with my ring. It was a very difficult decision to make. It happened 5 days before my wedding. When you guys are at D Day minus 5 take a minute and think to yourself if this is what you''d want to be doing. At 5 days to the big day there''s about 500 things going through your mind at the same time.
Marty Finkle knew the kind of pressure my wife and I were under and he tried to use it as leverage against me to make a sale, in my opinion.
To top it off I had the ring appraised by a GIA certified gemologist for insurance and it appraised at 25% less than what I paid for it. My wife''s ring purchased at another jeweler came out to 4.5% less than what I paid for it. That is a very acceptable margin. A difference of $100 on a $2200 dollar ring.
If you want to see a more detailed accout let me know and I''ll post a two page document I wrote up describing the whole event.
Thanks,
Paul
My wife and I were married in October, 2004. We tried to buy two wedding bands at Finkle Jewelers in Albany, NY.
To make a long story short...we put down 50% of the total for both rings. I ended up keeping the ring that I picked out but my wife didn''t get what she ordered. The ring she wanted had just been sold so they ordered a blank to load some channel set diamonds into. The ring came and it was wrong. Mary Finkle, the owner, tried to tell me that I was under contract to buy the second ring. He also said that he''d give my wife a loaner ring for our wedding ceremony. The bottom line is I wanted to take my ring and get back the remaining balance of what we put down. He insisted that I was under contract and wouldn''t sell me the ring. I ended up walking out of the store with my ring. It was a very difficult decision to make. It happened 5 days before my wedding. When you guys are at D Day minus 5 take a minute and think to yourself if this is what you''d want to be doing. At 5 days to the big day there''s about 500 things going through your mind at the same time.
Marty Finkle knew the kind of pressure my wife and I were under and he tried to use it as leverage against me to make a sale, in my opinion.
To top it off I had the ring appraised by a GIA certified gemologist for insurance and it appraised at 25% less than what I paid for it. My wife''s ring purchased at another jeweler came out to 4.5% less than what I paid for it. That is a very acceptable margin. A difference of $100 on a $2200 dollar ring.
If you want to see a more detailed accout let me know and I''ll post a two page document I wrote up describing the whole event.
Thanks,
Paul