I truly WANT to give London Gold a better review. But I can't. This may be some of the worst customer service for something that I am fully aware cost my now husband a lot of money. That is partly why I feel terrible in posting a negative review.. After getting engaged, my THEN boyfriend wanted to let me in on choosing my engagement ring. I would have loved no matter what he chose, let me clarify that. We went to several jewelers in the valley and really liked what London Gold had to offer. I wanted 14k white gold, as I have a platinum ring and it tends to dull and isn't as 'shiny' as white gold. The day we chose the ring and diamond, we were treated wonderfully! In fact, the sales guy advised us, to our surprise, that the ring would be sized down and mounted with the diamond by closing time. We opted to stay in the Chandler area for this reason. Well, he never called us so we just showed up about 5 minutes before closing. Another sales guy advised us, 'Your ring is beautiful and will be ready any minute! He ( the jeweler) is finishing it up now..) okay we wait. Not once did the gentleman who sold it to my then fiancé say a word or acknowledge us. I tried not to think much of that, but I found it, rude. Now 20
Minutes after closing he finally says to us , 'Yeah hey, your ring won't be ready til next week. Sorry.' As he cleaned up and put things away. When I asked why he didn't call us earlier to let us know that , ( as it would have been okay!). He just responded with , ' You can see we are busy; We got slammed with lots of customers; watch battery changes and such. Sorry guys. We will call you when it's ready.' Not gonna lie. This is where my first inclination of the customer service, or lack there of, began. Nonetheless, I didn't want to act 'spoiled' to my new fiancé and left my thoughts to myself. When he came home from his business trip a week later, I received my beautiful halo, Princess diamond engagement ring and was happy. Well, sort of. The size was still too big. I took it back to LG and stated that it needed to go down to a 4 even though it was sized the day we purchased. The manager lady helping me was less than nice to me. She said , 'We need to get this right this time, as we aren't going to keep sizing this ring'. I thought to myself : 'Lady I want my ring.. My goal in life is not to drive back and forth to bug you.' Really? No call came later that week to let me know it was ready a few days later. Again. How awful is this post sale customer service going to be ? We did decide to shop elsewhere for my diamond band and I for his wedding band. Fast forward. Within 3 months of wearing my beautiful ring.. Taking it off for anything remotely 'rough' such as working out, cleaning, washing dishes and even sleeping... I noticed it was getting a yellowy tinge on the band. I thought my eyes were tricking me and compared it with my friends ring... Nope her ring , a 2+ year old white gold engagement ring from another jeweler was NOT doing that. My other friend who did get her engagement ring from London Gold told me she had to have her ring 'dipped' from time to time. What? I made sure to take my now husband with me this time when returning with my ring to London Gold. I honestly was not looking forward to dealing with the lackidasical customer service again and I also know when I have had it.. I can get pretty snippy. I knew he would handle it... And make me keep my cool. Sure enough the SAME lady that I dealt with before on sizing said it had been '5 months since the purchase and it was TIME to inspect the ring AND it wasn't unheard of for the white gold to turn color'. She went on to explain how ALL white gold had alloy, nickel and rhodium and asked me 'how rough I was on this ring'. Not only was I offended, I was beyond appalled. IF this is all the case, it is owed to the consumer to let them know that when purchasing a ring in the beginning. I've since done my research.. ( I also have a Tiffany ring that did NOT , HAS not turned and it is OLD!! As it was a gift to me from my father when I turned 16 and that was awhile ago!) I have found that some jewelers do this dipping of the white gold that they sell. Not all provide that information to the customer , as in the case with this London Gold, obviously because we probably would have bought elsewhere. Here is the true kicker : we will NOW spend $50 to have it dipped from now on! That's quite a lot of extra $ for London Gold, if it has to be done, say twice a year! This time though , she, the manager, said it was 'complimentary'. Should I be grateful? Well I am not. I am just on this side of calling this place hoaky .. I love my ring and its design is show stopping. I love the person who gave it to me on one knee and all it stands for. BUT, NOT once was London Gold apologetic or nice about this process. They were nice when showing us expensive rings, sets and diamonds from their vault and taking my fiancés thousands. Now you know. read more