Strange stories from the front lines ?A young woman started coming to our store to look at a certain engagement ring early in the year ?...
AURA AND MYSTIQUE Had a woman from a transcendental meditation community come in to buy an engagement ring. Said she had to feel the diamonds to pick...
One of our salespeople came to my wife Linda saying she needed help with a client. She simply could not convince the client that her pearl...
Strange stories from the front lines ?We buy jewelry and scrap gold off the street. Recently, two women came into the store with a couple of...
TALK TO THE HAND, LADY! A lady brought in a herringbone bracelet all mangled up. She told me that she never wears it. It just sits...
One day a customer in her mid-40s came in with a wide diamond wedding band on her right hand, which she simply couldn’t get off. I...
Strange stories from the front linesPRECIOUS SILVER ?I was selling at an open-air festival. A woman and her daughter came in to look at earrings. They...
I was a sergeant in the Air Force for 20 years, which I mention in all my advertisements. One day while I was out of town,...
I’m ready to submit my entry for the annual Christmas shopper Darwin award. I had a call yesterday went like this … no joke! “Hello, Jewelry...
?This lady came in, interrupting one of our sales associates (who was working with a customer), by announcing, ?I’m here now, I’d like to see some...
Not too long ago, I re-set a customer’s diamond in a new pendant. I polished it along with six or seven other items and put them...
One morning before Christmas, one of our sales associates mentioned that a strand of black pearls was missing. This was a strand that was usually displayed...
That wasn't white cookie dough, unh-uh.
One of our regular customers was dating a man who passed away. She came in and asked us to make a shell-shaped pendant, with a lid...
Strange stories from the frontlinesMOMENT OF TOOTH ?The strangest engagement ring we ever made was for a woman who answered our ad in the Yellow Pages. She...
Dad decided to try a new setting technique when resetting Mom’s engagement diamond. Well, she noticed it missing out of the setting not long after she...
VALUE SHOPPER ?ON CHRISTMAS EVE, an elderly gentleman came into the store looking for a sapphire eternity band. We didn’t have one in stock and explained to...
I worked with a salesman for 25 years and once witnessed him working a customer. The client had asked him if, in his professional opinion, a...
THE CLEAVAGE CLOSE. I was showing a two-tone reversible omega with a diamond slide. Our customer wanted to see how it looked on one of our...
A couple comes in the store and I ask, “Are we looking for something special today?” The lady says yes, she is looking at wedding rings....
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