Years ago, I dealt with a real slimy dealer there named Elliot. I saw a 1 Carat ""D cut"" (or so I was told) diamond ring I was looking at had an original price tag of $35k!!! Yea Right!!! But it was marked down ""unclaimed"" to $15k. Before I walked out they said they would sell it to me for $10k. We finally settled on $7k cash. Elliot was so excited I thought he was going to pee his pants and I should have known I was being taken right then and there. Unfortunately, things with the engagement didn't go as planned, as sometimes is the case in life. When I went back to try and recoup some of my loss a few months later they wouldn't offer me a penny more than $900. That's right, as soon as it left this so called $35k ring dropped in price to $900!!! Uggghhh, what? Utterly shocked!! I walked down jewelers row and learned the certification they had given me and vouched re the D cut rating ""was unreliable."" I wanted to smack Elliot's smug face as he smiled when I questioned him out it could go down in price so considerably. I would have been happy with getting half of my money back. There was no way I was giving them the satisfaction of buying it back at that rediculously low price so they could do it all over again to some other inexperienced sucker like me. So I sold it next door for $1,750 to a Russian guy that actually seemed to have some dignity. Whatever you do DON'T BUY AT UNCLAIMED DIAMONDS. They are a HUGE RIP OFF claiming their jewels are way more expensive than they really are. I was young, dumb, in love and got SUCKERED. Don't do the same. STAY AWAY FROM UNCLAIMED DIAMONDS. They are horrible, horrible people.
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