Cheers thanks

Marlou, if you tell me the name of the jewellers and the person you are dealing with (PM me if you don't want to put the details here) I will ask my husband if he knows him. My husband is Turkish and worked in Gumbet for about 10 years up until 3 years ago so he knows a lot people who worked and lived there. Maybe he knows him. I'm not sure what he could do but if he does know him maybe he could have a word

Kedi

,not only for your sake but for all the people who buy jewellery in Turkey ,this is not a good advert

Exactly the point I was trying to make when I told you to tell him you would "name & shame him". Any jeweller worth his salt would try his best to rectify the problem, rather than let his reputation suffer.

Well that's it, he's giving me the right run around, like he's done since November. He's said that if I pay for half the diamond, he'll send me another one! How is he going to do that after saying he can't post Jewellery! I told him that, and I said he needed to remember what he was saying as he's contradicting himself . His reply "I'm a rude young lady". Well if he thought that was rude, I don't know what he thinks of my reply . I've just told him to stick the diamond where the sun doesn't shine, and I'll make sure that everyone knows what a con man he is . I wasn't going to get the diamond anyhow, so no harm done! Well that's that. Looks like i'll have to take it to a local jeweller now, and see how much it's going to cost to repair it! I've wasted nearly 5 months trying to sort this out, I'm not going to waste another second!

Hi Marlou,

How much did the ring cost? And how much did the jeweller ask you to send him? Can you notclaim it on your insurance?

In all honesty, the jeweller telling you his brother took the diamond to Brighton and then posted it sounds a bit vague. Especially when the parcel never turned up.

Now the jeweller is asking for you to pay half towards a second replacement means HE is going to be out of pocket 1.5 times: I can't see any businessman agreeing to that. Are you sure these are genuine diamonds?

Having said all that, I don't see why any jeweller would agree to send you a replacement without seeing the ring! For all he knows you could be making it up. I'm not suggesting you are - but he could think you are.

I thik this is one of the problems with buying jewellery abroad; if something goes wrong when you get back home there is very little you can do. I'm actually surprised he offered to replace the diamond in the first place - most people would demand to see the ring. I've never heard of a diamond falling out of a ring; I'm afraid to say that it sounds as though the ring is of very poor quality. Diamonds don't fall out - however hard you tug at them. The reason diamonds are so well-set is precisely because of their worth - if this diamond has just dropped out it sounds to me as though you've been had.

Strawberry

Dont mean to contradict you strawberry but diamonds fall out frequently and not always because of bad workmanship ,if you read the topic from the start you will see i have already given one example .Marlou get in touch with him again and tell him you are reporting him to the TJA the turkish jewellery assocation ,he may not be a member most of them are but it will make him think again if he is .I will send you the email address by pm if you want.

Ok thanks bluepeterno1. He sent me the postal receipt from his friend, which shows that something was sent to my house in December, but I've received nowt. He told me that the diamond itself costs approximately £100, it's making me think whether the diamond was actually real . I've literally given up on him now. I might try your suggestion though bluepeterno1, if he decides to contact me again!!

Hi Bluepeter,

I don't wish to contradict you either, but real diamonds set in good quality rings most certainly do not fall out frequently! It's almost an impossibility.

Small chips of diamonds can come loose in settings, and occasionally fall out under pressure, but solitaire diamonds it never do. If your wife's solitaire fell out simply by snagging on her dress then I would ask for my money back!

How much did you pay for it? I know you seem well clued-up about jewellery, and you obviously know about the 4 C's: Cut, Colour, Clarity, Carat....but no deserving jeweller would set a real good quality solitaire into a ring without making sure it was properly set. It just wouldn't happen.

Do you mind me asking how much you paid for your wife's solitaire, and what carat it was?

Strawberry

Strawberry i most certainly do mind telling how much my wifes ring cost me .I have dealt in Jewellery for years and i am not going to justify myself to you or anyone .I have given Marlou advice according to my own experince .I dont need to be contradicted by you or anyone else .

Calm down please folks.. keep it freindly and on topic

wizard

I wore 2 rings in Turkey that when one jeweller saw them he asked me to come into his shop so he could take a photos of the design as he said he would like to copy it.
It was a large well furnished shop and the man was smartly dressed in a suit.
He got out his eyeglass and looked at the smaller ring which consisted of 7 stones set on a band.The second ring was the same but had a large centre stone the size of 1 carat.
He said the clarity and colour was beautiful and if I bought them in the UK I must have paid £4,000 at least.
You should have seen his face when I said they cost £14.99 from Argos.
Would I trust a jeweller there?No way!

Wish I'd have read this post before I spent good money on CRAP

I have bought lots of jewelry in Turkey and have only had a problem once in Marmaris, were an item was swoped for inferior one,we stood our ground, got my money back.
We have even taken watches back the year later when strap has come apart they have always fixed them with a good heart, even a pair of sunglasses bought in the market, so dont be put of.
If i was you i would have my next holiday in Turkey, take the ring back to were you bought it and get sorted,
I know you are entitled to expect a good service after 4 months, but cant see any other way around it, even in England they would want to see the ring first.

June 07 we were with friends in Marmaris.They purchased an emerald ring with baguette diamonds around it,cost £1800,the jewellers is on the front by marina close to the entrance at the bazzar,one week after arriving home one of the baguette diamonds fell out,so last year we all went back to the jewellers,they were very appologetic and offered her a refund or replace the ring,she chose a replacement this time in yellow gold,well the same thing happened again when she got home,so we are all going back in June again this year,and we will see what they have to say now!!Bye the way,my daughter works in a jewellers and has been for 15 years,and she says that she has known a lot of baguette diamonds to come out!!!.

Baguette diamonds are tiny so probably could 'catch' and fall out, but I've never heard of a proper diamond, say, something like one carat falling out. I'd have said it was impossible due to the depth of the diamond, and the workmanship that goes into the setting of the ring - not to mention the diamond cutter - who would have the diamond set as solid as though it was the Crown Jewels.

Strawberry

The baguette diamond can any be amount of carat ,it has nothing to do with size ,although they are used for eternity rings and such because they can be set closer together. The baguette diamond is rectangular or oblong and can be any size they have been cut to .If a diamond falls out ,it is because of the setting not the size of the diamond.

Bluepeterno1

Hi Bluepeterno,

A baguette is a relatively small, elongated diamond that usually is rectangular in shape. Baguettes do not conform to the "17-facet" requirement for diamonds which is why they are relatively inexpensive.

The baguette is a step cut style used frequently as side stones as they are usually always very small. Like the emerald cut, the baguette does not have the sparkle of a brilliant cut, but they can still look beautiful.

A diamond cutter would not cut a diamond down and reduce its carat - the 4 Cs - Carat, Colour, Clarity and Cut are what gives a diamond its value. That's why an expensive diamond could NEVER 'fall out' or come loose from a setting. It would be impossible. It would be like trying to wrench an oak tree out of the ground with your bare hands. A large diamond would never fall out of a ring, but a small chip of a diamond could as it is shallow. However, if the small diamond is set well it shouldn't fall out either.

Strawberry

My mum inherited a diamond ring made up of three old hand cut diamonds. In 1978 she had a written valuation for £1005 for insurance purposes. A few years later one of the diamonds did fall out and it was lost. She had a replacement diamond set - however it is obviously not the same. The ring now is worth only a fraction of its original value.