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Fake turquoise jewelry! Beware! 1/31/2007

What a fake. This seemed like a good store at first. My daughter picked out a large turquoise ring, as a gift from her aunt. The 2nd time(!) she wore it, the stone fell out. The ""turquoise"" was a thin wafer glued onto a clay disk. My nail polish looks thicker than that turquoise sliver. She put the stone back in the setting. It sat too low. No one at the store told us, nor had this $90 ring come with any description, that the ""turquoise"" was a thin wafer on a clay disk, set in sand to raise it up to look bigger. My first & only other experience with turquoise was from a Tibetan store just a few stores away, where what you saw was what you got. Upon calling, the store offered to mail the ring for repair just this once back to the jewelry maker, a process they told me would take several months. Several months. No apology at all. Then I called 3 different Native American stores, two out of state. Each store owner said that no true Native American jeweler would make turquoise rings this way. Each ventured to say it was a fake. Pros: Nice ambience to the store Cons: Beware! Fake turquoise! more
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