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Get whatever the sales clerk says IN WRITING! you'll need it later.

If you lose your diamond, it's covered, but if you go in for the 6-month check and they find a loose stone, they harass you that you don't have a warranty and NOW you owe $80+ to fix it. Oh, I see, so if I go out and oops! Loose a stone, you replace it for FREE, yet when I'm proactive about caring for my ring, you nickel and dime me to death in saying that the warranty my husband got when he initially purchased the ring wasn't "lifetime" as the sale clerk explained, it actually expired in two years, and since it's after two years, we have this other "lifetime warranty" you can buy for $80 PER RING! WTH???

Here a beautiful expression of my husbands love for me has turned into this nightmare where this horrid company wants more money from me! I think I'm better off, going to your competitor, Zales, having my two rings of yours melted down and start from scratch. YOU SUCK! Another customer/family of customers you can say goodbye to.

Maybe next time a customer calls to complain you will get back to them in the 2 business days you promise (not a week, when I call to follow up), and then hire good managers who don't then call me, after I've followed up, to then again have the audacity to ask for MORE money and that I should upgrade my ring!

Are you for real or just on the planet to rip people off and take advantage of people?

Location: San Francisco, California

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Guest

DO NOT BUY JEWELRY FROM CHAIN STORES!

Guest

This is old but.... seriously????

Of course you're THE ONLY ONE on the planet this happened to. Oh wait, no, YOU'RE NOT. It was a 2 year warranty get over it or melt the ring your husband gave you.

YOU CARE ABOUT THAT RING SOOO MUCH YOU'D RATHER DESTROY IT THAN PAY $80?!!! HILARIOUS.

Guest
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When you pay for a LIFETIME warranty for as long as you own your ring, that's a lot longer than TWO years dimwit

Emilly Pof
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You don't PAY for a lifetime warranty for your diamonds. You pay for a lifetime warranty for your gold.

The DIAMOND warranty is FREE. All they ask is that you come in every six months to keep up with it in case they can pinpoint anything that may be loose, lost, or cracked.

Get your warranties straight. Its not that hard to wrap your brain around if you have one.

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Emilly Pof

They make their sale on lifetime diamond warranty but if you move or they shut down their local store and there isn't a Zales store around, instead of letting you have it checked and verified through another jewelry store every six months you're just SOL. I bought mine in Ogden, store closed, next closest was Boise, 5 hour drive or Yuma, 12 hour drive. It's a sales scam.

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-1355982

Some people just write idiocies online. Lifetime warranty is not 2 years.

Makinna Xsw
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Well, the diamond commitment wasnt paid for. Thats included.

Always has been.

You pay for the LIFETIME PROTECTION PLAN to cover metal work. Read the *** paperwork before you *** about stuff you clearly don't understand

Guest

Can anyone help me out and show me an example of this 6 month inspection sheet??

Guest

You know what Zales is, A piece of ***.I purchased a tennis bracelet from them right.Took it back in 6 months and Had it cleaned and Checked right.Tell me how in the *** my bracelet turned green,I would say the bracelet was not real gold.And i never got anyone to take responsibility for this tennis bracelet.I will never purchase anything else from Zales period.F--- Zales.

Guest

AJ,

I have my Lifetime Diamond Commitment Record Card and I just recently noticed that though have signatures for the first two inspections on record card, there are not any inspection numbers entered. Is this a code that changes with each inspection?

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-780830

Hi did you get a response about the Inspection number?

Guest

I am surprised you all are having so much trouble. There is a difference from the diamond guarantee and the Lifetime warranty which is purchased at time of sell.

If your diamond falls out Zales will replace it. If you have the Lifetime warranty it additionally covers all repairs, sizing, and a trade-up for the lifetime of the ring so long as you have it inspected every 6 months after purchase. I have had to have my diamond engagement ring repaired when it was loose, sizes changed in my three wedding rings, a stone straightened in my wedding band among several other things.

Once Zales messed up the cathedral setting in my three stone and replaced the ring at no charge. I have never had a problem from them and if I wasn't 100% satisfied with the work I requested it be sent to another jeweler or went to a different store.

Guest

I JUST got back from Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City and had the EXACT SAME experience as the lady from San Francisco, CA. I took it in for my 6 month cleaning and she noticed ANOTHER fault on it and out of the blue she said I would have to pay for the repair??

I kept telling her we bought the Diamond bond and now I get told Huh? And now she's coming up with the lifetime warranty stuff? So, now I'm going to contact them and get this resolved! I've had to have my ring repaired about 5 times.

I had been in there so many times, that the manager told me that if I had to have it repaired again, they would hae to give me another piece. Now, I get this:( I wish they would get thier act together!

Guest

Not doing damage control. If you look carefully, I said I worked there, not work there.

What I do know from working in jewelry is that people can sometimes have unreasonable expectations as to the long term wear of their jewelry, and don't believe in doing maintenance required.

I am not saying that you may not have gotten a bad item, I don't know. I just know that even for people who are careful with their jewelry, maintenance is a matter of WHEN not if. Since it sounds as though your problems started 6 years in, I was just saying it could be from wearing it and not because it is defective.

Again, I don't know and haven't seen your ring.

Also, I know that I have not read the fine print on warranties I purchased in the past, but that being said, you canรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt argue that they lie about their warranties if you donรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt read them and know what they cover. Itรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs up to you to be sure you understand how your warranties work and not take someone elseรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs word over the printed facts they hand to you, especially if they are a sales person.

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-447630

My Fiance (husband now) purchased my engagement ring at Zales in 2013 I have taken it in every 6 months as promised and had been told 3 months before our wedding that a stone was loose. They sent it out had it repaired and cleaned etc no muss no fuss and never asked for addition funds because we bought the lifetime warranty.

I purchased my wedding band from elsewhere and discovered that there lifetime warranty also covered ANY jeweler work I wanted done not just sizing and repair but it does not diminish my love for my engagement ring.

Very satisfied customer.

Guest

AJ - Are you doing damage control for Zales and just cutting and posting a jewelry 101 history lesson?

Reality check - I have to agree with the "trade-it-up" up selling. I have sentimental value to my ring and don't want to be associated with a poor quality product and then be told, "oh, just trade it up" which really means: you can have another piece of *** ring that will fall apart for $2K more!

Guest

MeanPeopleSuck, I know it can be frustrating to have to send your ring off to the Zales jeweler for repair when the stone gets loose. However, if you use and wear your ring everyday it is going to need some kind of maintenance. You don't drive your car for 6 years every day and expect everything to go smoothly without tune-ups, oil changes, and various other services.

Gold is not as hard as a diamond so your prongs and settings will get some form of wear and tear. This is probably why your stones get loose over time, not necessarily due to shoddy workmanship. That is not to say that there are not situations when you get a lemon, just like buying a car or anything else. But in most cases and not all of them of course, the maintenance needed is due to wear and tear over craftsmanship. You may be like I am and be very hard on your jewelry and these kinds of protection plan are my life saver. It will not cover rebuilding the shank (band portion of your ring) or custom type work, but it can be valuable for basic fixes like tightening stones.

I am sorry about your confusion on the warranties. Until around Christmas 2006 the only lifetime warranty offered by Zales was the Diamond Bond, which covers your diamonds against breakage, chipping or loss. Since your ring was 6 years old at the time of your original post, I am assuming you had purchased what was available at that time, which was a two year warranty for basic maintenance type of situation, tightening of stones, sizing, cleaning. If I recall correctly, the two year protection plan indicated on the printout that it was for two years. Christmas 2006 was the roll out of the lifetime protection plan. Since I worked there at the time, and was hired shortly before the shift to the lifetime, I can easily remember when it happened.

That being said, I recommend that you read your warranties and receipts closely. And always keep your original copies, photocopying them if the heat sensitive receipt paper begins to fade, which it will. If the company changes the warranty, but your original agreement states something different, you have grounds for and proof of the promise that was made to you when the item was sold to you. I still work for a large jewelry company, and do my best to make things right for customers, but you are always your best advocate. You may have the proof in your hand to merit special handling of your situation.

Guest

Jewelry is something that has a HUGE markup on it.Believe me I know and if you knew just how high the markup was it would make you sick.Before you ever go to a jewelry story you should educate yourself about jewelry in the same way you would before you buy a car.If you do not know about jewelry the sales person will see this and most likely take advantage of you the same way a car salesman will.As I said on another post about jewelry you should really consider buying from a pawn shop or seller of estate jewelry.The reason is because you can save huge if you buy from these places compared to a jewelry store because they do not have the huge markup.As long as you are buying a modern cut stone you are buying the same thing as in the jewelry store except you are paying $3,000 instead of 8 or $10,000.There is something many jewelry stores are doing now called "trading up".This is where for example if you buy a ring that is $5,000 you get a paper with it saying you can "trade it up" on a purchase of a diamond of $7,000 or more.This means if you decide to buy another ring that is $7,000 or more you can bring back the $5,000 ring and give it back to the store and only pay the $2,000.This should give you a hint about how high the markup on jewelry is.Can you guess what happens to the diamonds you "trade in"?? Most of the time they are remounted and put right back in the case for sale.I will also comment about another practice of zales.I have been in zales stores and asked to see something in a case and have been told I would have to show them an ID in order for them to take it out of the case.I find this very strange.I know many owners of large high end jewelry stores and I have a lot of expensive jewelry myself including rolex,diamonds etc.I am accustomed to looking at rings that are $25,000 or more and watches that are over $30,000 and having no problem from the stores.With that being said I find it funny that a 18 year old woman askes to see my ID before she can show me a 5 or 6,000 ring especially when I am wearing at that time over $40,000 worth of jewelry myself.I can say that I have never bought anything from zales except a mavado watch about 10 years ago which I never wear.The quality of their diamonds that they have in their stores typically is not good.

Guest

@ Zales District Manager,

If that's the way you feel about a company that employs you (if you are still a district manager as you say) maybe you should leave said company. I work in a fantastic district, under a fantastic district manager - perhaps you are one of the reasons why people have been having such *** experiences at Zales.

That *** poor attitude carries through to your employees. Last time I checked, we work for YOUR bonuses every month, we work to get YOU a bigger paycheck. And for the amount I'm "paid" on warranties, I'd just as sooner tell people the truth. That my measly extra 25c I get (after taxes) for selling them one, is of far lesser importance than a 5 grand ring they have on their finger.

I do it because I CARE. Sounds like it's time for you to leave if you're that negative...

Willodene Hay
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Zales does not care about any employees pretty much.

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