Stopped by this place and the experience was so horrid I'm still dumbfounded.
I'm an extremely friendly person, so when I walked in I said hello and smiled. I asked the proprietor if they did jewelry soldering. He said he would have to see the piece, so I showed him what I wanted done. He was not friendly whatsoever but, hey people have bad days, so I ignored it.
He took a look at the jewelry I had brought in, and told me that it would cost $50 for him to solder 5 jump rings. I thought he was joking with me, or I heard him wrong so I chuckled. But he didn't laugh back, he just glared at me. I said "Sorry, did you say 50? As in five zero?" He confirmed that was indeed what he said. I still thought he must be teasing me, so I said with a smile on my face "what in the world are you using for solder"? And that's when he got incredibly nasty with me.
He screamed that he's not a jeweler, and it would take him a very long time to solder it. I told him that unfortunately for him I know what I'm talking about because I solder and make jewelry out of my house. A project like what I wanted done would take me less than 5 minutes and cost less than $1 to do myself (except I can't right now due to a hand injury). He had the rudeness and audacity to bark at me "then go do it yourself".
I did absolutely nothing to this man, and I was treated with such spite and rudeness that I actually got feisty with him in return. I'm an extremely meek person so this is really rare for me. I was so stunned I can't remember exactly what I said, but it was something about him being a disgrace and that I had never been treated so appallingly in a store before.
He was still yelling rude and obnoxious things at me as I left. If this is how this person runs their business, I'm baffled how he's still open. I'm still shook at how horribly I was treated. It was unbelievable and completely uncalled for. You would think I went in there to insult his family or something. Typical male chauvinist pig.
EDIT: I noticed the other reviews mention the owners by name. Almost all of them. That is not a thing people do. They don't include the owners names in reviews. They were probably left by family members or friends so they could have a good score. read more