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| - I have had 2 poor experiences with this Jared store at Concord Mills. Last December, when they had a holiday promotion for Levian jewelry, and a trade-in ring special, I went to this store. I was greeted at the door promptly by a lady, and I explained that I had two Levian pieces that I wanted to trade in and upgrade. She took me to speak with "the Levian guy" who was so rude. He looked down his nose at me and told me that my rings were "just plain consumer pieces" and not the high end custom pieces for which they held the sale. Okay!! I walked away from him and decided to look at other jewelry, and one clerk offered to help me. As we were looking at rings, she looked up to see an apparent "regular" customer of hers, and she said to another clerk "Oh here, you handle this lady and I'm going to my other customer." So I was dismissed twice! I walked out without buying anything. This past weekend, I go to Jared's again, this time looking for a pair of 18kt gold dangle earrings. Again, a lady greeted me at the door, walked me to the area where they had earrings, and passed me off to someone else in that area. I explained what I wanted exactly, big, bold 18kt gold dangle earrings, not diamonds, and the clerk says "we don't have any." It's a jewelry store, right? I was prepared to pay $1,000+ for earrings, given the price of gold, but apparently Jared's doesn't carry such a thing! I won't go back.......and I won't recommend them to anyone else of my friends who love and buy a lot of jewelry! I'll buy my high end jewelry from the Gem Shopping Network TV channel from now on and I recommend that others do the same!
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