GO TO DALIA DIAMONDS! They now have me as a customer for life.
When my fiancée was in town in April for her birthday, we went to 47th Street , looking for engagement ring settings for us. 47th Street is an intense place, a bazaar-like atmosphere with some men on the street trying to coerce you into their stores - it felt a little like Morocco. I don't respond well to pressure and just kept walking. We stopped to look in Dalia Diamonds' window. A very polite man very gently said, "Please come in. We will show you whatever you like." I told him we definitely weren't buying today and he said that was fine, come in anyway. So we did.
An AMAZING experience! Again - we were not buying THAT DAY and I already owned the stones. We only needed 2 settings. Sharon and Brian treated us as though we were representing the Queen of England and shopping for the Crown Jewels! We sat at a counter and after asking if we saw anything we liked in the many trays in the case below, took out the ones that had rings in which we had shown interest. Once she got an idea of our tastes, she made suggestions - and some very good ones, I might add. NOT ONCE did she try to push anything on either one of us, nor did we feel rushed in any way. We picked out a few things that would interest us if we came back, she wrote the numbers on a card and we took the cards with us.
Almost 7 weeks later, last week, I decided it was really time to get our rings. She was in town for my birthday and we went on an expedition to a few malls. Nothing special caught our eyes. On Monday, My friend Michael who has been in the jewelry industry since forever, went with me to several other 47th Street vendors and then he and I came back to Dalia Diamonds. Again, Sharon was warm, friendly and beyond patient. We looked and looked and looked at so many different settings, found one that I loved for me, another that I wanted to think about and a third that Michael thought would be great for my finance. Again, she wrote the numbers on a card. When we left, Michael said that he liked the quality and the prices were excellent. I told my fiancée what Michael and I found and when I hung up, I called Sharon and told her to please have the settings ready for us for Thursday afternoon around 3pm. My fiancée trained in from Albany, we met Michael and again, sat at Dalia Diamonds' counter, going back and forth between the three rings. Finally, we made a decision, got a fabulous deal on the price (as verified by Michael) and have 2 of the most beautiful diamond rings we've ever seen. read more