'I continued to say “excuse me?"': Customer claims diamond specialist switched out her ring, specialist proves her wrong

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    Font - '[She is] saying it looks wrong, and this wasn't the diamond she purchased'
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    Font - Woman refused to be proved wrong Medium Diamond specialist here... had this woman come in to get her ring cleaned and polished that was not from my privately owned business. Told her if she wanted it cleaned I would need to take it in the back to the high pressure steam cleaner to get all the junk out of it (lotions, conditioners, make up, daily wear and tear blah blah blah..) said she was perfectly fine with that as I told her it could take up a few minutes...
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    Font - Come back out with a brand new looking engagement ring, because it was actually CLEAN.. Automatically asks for a jewelers loupe to inspect her diamond. Graciously hand her one and said no problem! Here starts the thorough inspection of her diamond... huff & puff multiple times, flip the hair, turn the loupe around (there is no difference between sides on a jewelers loupe). I ask her if she would like me to show her how to use the loupe. She snaps at me and says clearly she knows how to us
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    Font - "You switched my diamond" she proclaimed. I continued to say "excuse me?" She claimed I switched out her diamond to which I'm baffled at this point. Demanding to speak to authority, I said you're speaking to one. Saying it looks wrong and this wasn't the diamond she purchased, so on and so forth. Tried reasoning with her until I had to get VERY blunt.
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    Font - "I'm assuming you don't know how this works, for me to switch out a diamond, and a marquise shape at that. I would have had to know your exact dimensions of the diamond before you came in here. Your diamond isn't from here but I said I would clean it for free for you. Now your accusing me of switching out your diamond within 2-3 minutes when it would have taken me at least 10 minutes to even try and find a stone that had your same exact dimensions.
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    Font - Because if it didn't I would have had to change the head of your diamond to hold a different sized stone, which requires a jewelers torch, putting on a new one, and then cleaning your ring to perfection to dip into the rhodium.
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    Font - All of that alone would have taken me a solid 45 minutes. Rhodium is $20,000+ per oz right now and if you think I'm going to contaminate a batch of rhodium on your ring to maybe profit $1,000 on switching out your stone is absurd. Kindly take your ring back to where you bought it from to have them confirm with you that INDEED it's still your diamond, and do not ask for me to service your ring ever again" she huffed and puffed and walked out.
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    Font - Got a call later from her husband apologizing saying that he heard the story and it was her diamond... Educate yourself before you accuse a professional of theft bi
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    Font - kindquail502 Poor husband. Very nice of him to call and apologize.
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    Font - HalloweenFreak260. Why do I have a feeling that she did this intentionally...in hopes of getting a new/different, and possibly better diamond? I've heard of this happening before, unfortunately. You were far more tactful than I probably would've been. Kudos! 564 Share Difficult_Witness29 OP. That's the same thing I thought!
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    Font - di-lava very common urban legend about diamond switching...we always probe tested diamonds in front of customer before cleaning...
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    Font - Difficult Witness29 OP I have an awesome LED screen microscope I do custom work. for when People usually leaving stones passed down from family and so on. I show them all the characteristics so they are aware. I try to avoid these situations. But since she was in a "rush" I did it fast. I just can't believe some people think it's that easy to do..
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    Font - Prokletnost that just makes my blood boil, disgusting human being. 42 Share Difficult Witness29 OP. Perfect example that the customer is NOT always right!
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    Font - kschang Did she PAY for the cleaning at all? Seems you should have invoked the A-H surcharge.
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    Font - L BUC Difficult Witness29 OP. No I didn't charge.. if I'm not busy and someone comes in I will clean at no charge regardless of where it's from and do an inspection for them. If I find anything wrong with the ring, I suggest they take it to where they purchased it from, just so they don't think I'm telling them something to get them to spend money. Maybe I should be less nice from now on..
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    Jaw - Morti_Macabre I'd love to know how many places she tried this at.
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    Font - seagull321 should have apologized herself. What a horrible person!!! And dumb as dirt on top of it! 5 Share Difficult Witness29 OP. I can't even describe the way she was acting. Unfortunately for me, I'm not good at hiding my annoyance, and make it known with no regrets..
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    Gesture - Miryafa How do you protect yourself from false accusations?
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    Font - Difficult Witness29 OP. I have cameras everywhere. Luckily these things don't happen very often. But it's never got to the point when i had to show someone footage. I'm pretty efficient at explaining the processes while making them feel more comfortable at the end of it all. BUT this woman... I think she got embarrassed from how she was acting, felt stupid, and couldn't retract her accusation.

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