I went with my girlfriend to the Barret Parkway D. Gellar to browse come engagement rings. We had been to several other places, so we had a good idea of what to expect from a quality jeweler. What we got was completely the opposite. They had a very young girl with really disgusting nails come and help us first. We found a decent setting and they went to the back and found a stone for it. The setting plus the stone was upwards of 5,000 originally. After telling her that we were just looking, she immediately started saying things like, what can I do for you to buy today, and talking about how the price of diamonds is about to skyrocket. She then proceeded to say that she would toss in the setting for free (1300) so now the price of the ring was only around 3700. She brought in another man, who looked unshowered and was wearing shorts while drinking coffee. He was unbelievable. I asked to see different stones and he told me that this was a great stone and it was the one that I wanted. There was never any rating on it, clarity or color. He told me that ratings weren't important and that people make up there own scales to fool people. Anyway, he ended up slashing the price to around 2600 and then I had to walk out the door while he was yelling at me to come back. Overall, terrible experience. It made me feel like the ring was probably really bad quality and I feel bad for anyone who buys jewelry from them.
Pros: none
Cons: everything about it.
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