E-ring issue...upset (sorry its long)
I just need to vent a little about this weekend....
So....Im in the car and I look down at my hand like I often do .....BAM...one of my diamonds in my setting was missing...instead of sparkles all I was was a gaping dark hole. I, of course, freaked and cried. FH didnt initially want to go back to where he bought the ring in Jersey so instead we went to the Queens Center Mall by my house. No one in the mall would repair a ring not purchased by them...except for Zales.
Not to sound cheap...but its a small side stone...and they wanted almost $300 and it would take 7-10 days. FH told me that the entire setting cost him $500 (of course all the money went into the center stone). $500 for the entire setting which has 12 small stones..and they want to charge almost $300 to replace one. She said that it was because of the quality of the sidestones and because one of the prongs needed to be repaired.
In the end, I didnt leave it there just because I felt like $300 was too high to charge in comparison to the cost of the entire setting....now we are probably gonna have no choice but to go back to Jersey where he purchased it from (althought the 1 year warranty has already expired). FH doesnt want me to wear my ring until it is fixed because we aren't sure if losing this one stone has 'loosened' up any of the other stones. I am so beyond upset. I am so upset by this...I feel like I 'broke' my ring and now I am going to have to be without it for a time while it gets repaired. I guess I feel like that because he told me that I am a 'brut' to my jewelry. To make things worse, money is really tight for us now so FH was not happy about having to spend money to have this repaired since as he so gently put it 'well you have to have it fixed by the wedding right'. I was so hurt I just told him to forget it and I just wont wear my Ering on our wedding day. I know he just said it b/c he was upset and overreacting...but he made me feel like I did this b/c I wasnt careful enough.
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He doesnt understand why any of this upsets me. ![]()
Can anyone recommend a place in Queens that will repair rings not originally purchased there? I would like to get other quotes before we go back to the place it was purchased. TIA
So....Im in the car and I look down at my hand like I often do .....BAM...one of my diamonds in my setting was missing...instead of sparkles all I was was a gaping dark hole. I, of course, freaked and cried. FH didnt initially want to go back to where he bought the ring in Jersey so instead we went to the Queens Center Mall by my house. No one in the mall would repair a ring not purchased by them...except for Zales.
Not to sound cheap...but its a small side stone...and they wanted almost $300 and it would take 7-10 days. FH told me that the entire setting cost him $500 (of course all the money went into the center stone). $500 for the entire setting which has 12 small stones..and they want to charge almost $300 to replace one. She said that it was because of the quality of the sidestones and because one of the prongs needed to be repaired.
In the end, I didnt leave it there just because I felt like $300 was too high to charge in comparison to the cost of the entire setting....now we are probably gonna have no choice but to go back to Jersey where he purchased it from (althought the 1 year warranty has already expired). FH doesnt want me to wear my ring until it is fixed because we aren't sure if losing this one stone has 'loosened' up any of the other stones. I am so beyond upset. I am so upset by this...I feel like I 'broke' my ring and now I am going to have to be without it for a time while it gets repaired. I guess I feel like that because he told me that I am a 'brut' to my jewelry. To make things worse, money is really tight for us now so FH was not happy about having to spend money to have this repaired since as he so gently put it 'well you have to have it fixed by the wedding right'. I was so hurt I just told him to forget it and I just wont wear my Ering on our wedding day. I know he just said it b/c he was upset and overreacting...but he made me feel like I did this b/c I wasnt careful enough.
