What a HUGE disappointment --- for two reasons:
Rogers Jewelers was buying a clock from a gentleman. The man stated he did not take checks, that he was a small business here in town and that he made that very clear when he set up the agreement for the clock purchase. He stated that he works very hard for the Big Rapids community but he just doesn't deal with checks. The man from Rogers said to him, "Well, if you don't deal with checks , you don't even have a real business anyway." --- Way to support the small businesses of our own town!
Second reason --
I was there (which is why I witnessed the whole clock transaction) because I needed a ring size-reducer for my engagement ring -- just temporarily until I save the money to have it sized properly. The lady that helped me, Beth, took my ring, put it in the gem microscope (because apparently they need to know the clarity of a stone in order to properly install a ring reducer) and then said to me, "CZ?"
Let me start by saying that I already knew that the stone in my ring wasn't a "mined out of the ground diamond" but it's not CZ either. It's a diamond that was created in a lab, because simply put --- we cannot afford the price of the "real thing".
With that being said, had I not been aware of this, Beth did something she had no right to do. If a woman walks in with an engagement ring on her hand, why on earth would you tell her it isn't real? To try to make a sale? How heartless do you have to be to potentially crush someone's dreams? If that is all her fiance could afford, then he did what he could and she didn't need to know any differently. Who gave Beth the job of informing women of the real/fakeness of their engagement rings? Getting engaged is one of the biggest events in a women's life and Beth is taking it upon herself to destroy this happy time for who knows how many people.
As far as I'm concerned, Rogers doesn't deserve the business of the Big Rapids residents, or anyone else. That is not something we are proud to call ours. read more