Jared - Galleria of Jewelry in Newark, DE Closed now

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  January 28, 2020, by Nathan Walker
  tl;dr: buy a rock and a ring off the internet, take it to a local jeweler to do the work. Not bad for a jewelry store? Brittany was nice and helpful, but the 3 other people I interacted with were kind of the worst. First annoyance was that I called to check if Brittany was there, since she had helped me initially find a few options in a catalog. I'd picked the one I wanted and was ready to buy, but Brittany wasn't there that day. I asked if I could buy it anyway, since I knew exactly what I wanted, and was told that I could. I drove there only to be told that I couldn't buy it because Brittany wasn't there, they didn't have anything on file, and they didn't want to mess up the order. So I left. Then, the ring came in. The jeweler missed a few spots of the brushed finish, so I asked if that could be redone. Had some hot chocolate while I waited, which was tasty. However, on a closer inspection I could see the prongs were sloppily bent and shaped onto the diamond. I could literally do better with one of those foam nail filers. Had to get it resized smaller. The first time someone measured my fiance's hand, they did it wrong, so Brittany measured a second time and they resized it again. After that, the bottom of the ring looked bad. It was at least 50% thinner, and the thinned out portion was off center and slightly bent. I didn't realize how bad it was until a friend had their ring resized, and it actually looked good. I took it in to fix the issue, and they said that it was normal for the band to get thinner when resizing due to filing. Her disdain was palpable. They did clean it for me though. It does seem common for jewelry stores to be snootily content with archaic methods and unreasonable prices, so I can't hold it against them too much. Still, it's basically $500 down the drain, since I'm going to get a new ring once I can afford it. Thankfully I got the diamond online- it's lab made, impeccable, and was way cheaper than normal. I only got swindled for the 14k piece of scrap metal that my fiance is wearing.