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    Is anybody buying?

    I gave up buying too, just because I had got bored with shopping channels really; but have recently started again. As with everything, you just have to be selective and not get taken in by the hype! Obviously Gemporia are doing really well, and they have clearly grown (as you can tell from the...
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    Pre-orders are SOOO annoying!

    I think I would find the pre-orders tolerable if it were possible to cancel an order yourself online with a few clicks if the price was too high, rather than having to phone CS every time. They are always very friendly about it, but you have to wait on the phone and it’s a pain. I’m sure they’re...
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    Jess Foley

    ALL of them say things they KNOW are not true, e.g. 'It's very unlikely that we'll ever see this ultra-rare gemstone again' when--hey presto--there's another entire showcase of it two days later; or 'We never normally see this carat weight of this gemstone at this price' when either (a) it is...
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    Pre-orders are SOOO annoying!

    Well, whadda you know? The same pendant came up for £499... I'd already cancelled the original one, so I ordered it at the new price.
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    Pre-orders are SOOO annoying!

    Grrrr.... So I decide to take the plunge and go for the pre-order, and the item—which on the basis of previous auctions I expected to go to maybe £399 or £499–stops at £999!!! So obviously I will either be cancelling the order before it ships, or else waiting for it to go to a more sensible...
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    Pre-orders are SOOO annoying!

    Gems must have worked out that there is some commercial benefit in pre-orders; but as a customer, they are hopeless. Many items don’t even get presented properly on screen, because they’ve sold out in advance; while as a customer, if you don’t want to miss out you’re forced to buy the item...
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    Presenter somewhat... over-excited?

    She’s too old to be pregnant, isn’t she? What I’m getting at is that she looked as though she might have... recently ingested (or possibly smoked) something—and I don’t mean cake.
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    Presenter somewhat... over-excited?

    I switched on TJC at around lunchtime today, and couldn’t help noticing that the presenter, Chloe, seemed somewhat... beside herself? Not saying more that that, as I don’t want to get sued! I normally quite like her presenting style, even if she is always somewhat effusive; but this was...
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    Is anybody buying?

    Funny how all these channels (Gemporia by no means the only or even the worst offender) keep making these 'mistakes'... they keep getting the prices wrong, too, apparently. But of course none of these 'mistakes' is real, any more than the presenters' fake astonishment at the quality, rarity...
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    Rocks now called Juwelo UK?

    I used to like R&C (until the prices went berserk), but eventually I got rather bored of shopping channels. As a result, I hadn't visited this forum, or looked at Rocks & Co, in years--until now. I was shocked to read that it had apparently closed (without my even noticing!), but evidently it...
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    Mega clearance sale

    But what about the 'Inspiration for Creation' competition? They've extended the deadline - I'm guessing because they didn't have enough entries - and it's hard to understand why they would do this if they were about to close down the channel, with no opportunity to bring the winning design to...
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    Refund policy

    I think Rocks & Co do automatically give you your original p&p back if you return an order.
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    Jewellery Quality

    It's always worth buing 3 pairs of identical earrings, picking out two that are a good match, and returning the others. I know TJC don't generally do refunds on earrings, but they will if you say they are faulty because the gemstones don't match; I have never had a problem with this.
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    Creation

    I have no idea whether they're in trouble or not, but the Creation idea is not necessarily symptomatic of that; it could just be that they're trying to offer something unique in the marketplace. They say that Creation pieces will reach the customer in 10 days, so they must have the gold and...
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    Prince Harry/James Hewitt

    I must say I have also wondered about this, but I have noticed that Prince Harry's eyes are quite close together, just like Prince Charles' - so there is some resemblance.
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