Mrs.S
Bad quality necklace. Diamond missing. Rudimentary Looking Repairs. One rude employee.
Recently went to Jared since JB Robinson closed in our area, Jared supposedly took over. Took in a bunch of things to repair, of course on some things due to Covid our warranty expired because we were unable to get in during Covid lockdowns for checks and of course JB Robinson doesn't tell you where to take it after they close, you are supposed to just know I guess, well that figures so of course the warranties were void and we had to pay for repairs. 1. We bought a sterling necklace with topaz and sapphire pendant (also matching ring and bracelet), necklace was such bad quality that my neck swelled up for two months and had to see a couple doctors about it and I had to buy another necklace that was $800 to replace the cheap one that came with the pendant so my neck would not swell (they would not replace it or let me upgrade it). 2. I took my 3K tennis bracelet to be repaired adding a second chain to it so as not to lose it, and I did not check it well after picking up so many items and I went home put it in my safe, during 6 months I did not wear it. I pulled it out to wear and a diamond was missing (no one disturbed it it was locked away the whole time), my bad for not checking closer each and every diamond when I got it back in the store. Their manager assures me that happens all the time that diamonds just fall out. I have pictures and video of before. They had just sent it to corporate supposedly to be checked, repaired and cleaned and had a new chain added as a back up. Now I am going to have to pay a lot to replace the missing stone. I really doubt it will be covered under warranty even if I do show them my pictures and video. I don't even want to go there again because I think I was scammed. Now I want to pull my diamond checker and mini microscope out and check everything again. I am not saying they took it, I am just saying it's highly suspicious to have a loose stone that falls out immediately after repair in between your jewelry store and your safe which you put in your safe 30 minutes later after not losing any stones for years. 3. I have a very nice ring with several carats, the ring was sold to us by JB Robinson which Sterling Jewelers owned and one of the stones is now somehow a total piece of junk or it was traded out at some point by a JB Robinson jeweler because we paid over 7500 for the ring (worth about 10 grand originally) that might not be Jared's fault but they of course zoned right in wanting to charge me a fortune for a new diamond which I refused. You can't even see the chip with bare eyes. But my question is how did it get to be such a crappy stone after buying a high quality ring originally worth almost 10K. On that one I should say the blame may fall on JB Robinson's previous jewelers, not Jared. And if JB Robinsons was selling such good quality rings with quality diamonds how could it have such a big flaw in the first place? I should think the stone would be replaced with a good one. Warranties don't cover possible crappy trade-outs by suspicious jewelers. But these are all part of the Sterling group and Jared will only sell me upgrades to fix it rather than replace the stone even though it's supposedly still under warranty. 4. On the same wedding ring which Jared repaired Jared did not add gold to tighten the stone in, they scraped the gold from the ring to cover the edge of the diamond which looks awful like it was melted and scraped over the edge of the stone. I feel it was cheaply repaired considering I was paying for enough gold to fix the prongs and tighten the setting. Very disappointed at that part of the repair. I am skeptical of Jared at this point. The manager was nice when I called about the missing diamond. So I will at least give them that. She offered to look at it immediately so I guess I will be going back to at least have her look. If anything I just wanted to report it in case they have a sneaky jeweler on their team. On that note I will say, our watch battery replacements came back fine. My newer gold necklace is not affecting me but I had to pay more for that one. The other small repairs on additional tennis bracelets they did are all good. I wanted to at least be clear that some of the work was fine as far as I can tell. I don't know that I am going to allow my bracelet to go anywhere again without my eyes watching the repair. I am tired of feeling scammed. Why does everything have to be sent to corporate. How can I believe I won't be stolen from. The photos they take before your repair goes out are not the best either. Jared treats you ok but they do freak out when your diamond doesn't meet their expectations even though their group sold you that saying it was high quality. Then they try to sell you a new diamond when you find out the E grade you bought before through the same group is crap (chipped) or may have been switched out.



