(Looking forward to Eddie posting a response to this, filled with his typical lies)
Always beware a place with a sign that says "No Returns".
As soon as you walk in, Eddie will start telling you about all the celebrities he's sold jewelry too, how much they love him, etc, etc. Should tip you off immediately about the kind of low rate grifter he is.
Then he showed me this diamond out his "private collection" that he hand picked, said it was worth $8,000. I didn't know much about diamonds at the time. Some of the attributes sounded good. It had good color, good size. Eddie assured me that a "poor" rating for cut didn't matter, wasn't important. Well I learned later what a complete lie that was. I bought a ring with that diamond, it cost $9,000. A lot of money, but I thought I was getting something great for my fiance. I was nervous about proposing to my girlfriend, about this whole big decision I was making, it really distracted me from the obvious red flags that is Eddie. Please don't make my mistake. If he seems shady, it's because he is.
As soon as I took it out of the store's lighting, it was obvious that the diamond looked like glass. You could see right through it. That's what a "poor" cut means. It doesn't refract. Most online diamond sellers wont even carry them. So I got scammed, and that's on me, but that doesn't absolve the scammer.
I couldn't believe how much he lied to me. How he tried to get me to buy this rip-off. So I took it back. It was a custom band, with 2 small diamonds on the sides. So I said I'd pay the cost to make the custom ring, and for the side diamonds, but I wanted a refund on the rest. He said he wouldn't do it. I argued with him for a while and he eventually agreed to give me $6000 of the $9000 back. He also said he'd take the ring and sell it, and once he did, we would split the profit 50/50 which would hopefully be the $3000 he still owed me. I asked what if he couldn't sell it in 1 year, and he said if it still wasn't sold in 1 year, and I didn't want to wait any longer, he'd give me $500. I agreed, and he wrote up a receipt. What else could I do? Better than nothing, right?
Well, I asked after a year, he said he still didn't sell it. So I waited another year. I called him up, and at first he said he didn't remember the deal. Then when I explained the original deal, he suddenly remembered exactly! ...A totally different deal he just made up; if he sold the ring he'd give me $500, and otherwise nothing. He gets to keep either $2500 or $3000 from me, and I get nothing in return. When I told him that was a lie, that wasn't the deal, he accused me of a running a scam (haha, can you imagine having a con artist trying to accuse YOU of scamming THEM?), and he hung up on me. So I went right over there to confront him. It took me 3 minutes to walk over. And he was already gone. He ran out of there as fast as he could after hanging up on me (like someone with a guilty conscience would do). The lady at the counter told me he was running errands. So I stuck around. I saw someone come in who looked a lot like him, so I went up and asked if he was looking for something, he didn't really give a straight answer. So I figured the lady at the counter had called in a relative from nearby to help intimidate me, while Eddie hid somewhere. I asked him if he was related to Eddie, and he said he was, so I explained exactly how bad of a business Eddie was running.
Eventually Eddie came back, and got right in my face and started putting his finger in my face calling me a liar. He's bigger than me, and I think he thought he could just scare me away and keep all the money he stole from me. But I wasn't having it, he was definitely lying and had the gull to screw me over and lie to my face. He wouldn't even acknowledge the crappy deal I initially agreed to. He then immediately called the cops and I said good, bring them in. I was hoping they could do something to help me. They got there, we explained it, they asked him if he could grab the receipt that had the deal written on it, and he refused. Why would he refuse if he wasn't lying? But they couldn't force him. They asked me to step out with them, and I explained the situation and the cop seemed stunned by the outrageous scam Eddie had pulled. But he said all I could do is find my copy of the receipt and take Eddie to court. Which is what I'm going to do now.
My recommendation, don't give your business to these old school scammers. There are so many good alternatives. I highly recommend buying online. Eddie himself told me that the physical stores upcharge jewelry 300%. Whereas online you can get much better diamonds upcharged only 15%. I got something way better than any of the gaudy designs offered at Glitz, for a fraction of the cost.
Please don't make the mistake I made. Can't believe I have to waste my time taking this joker to court. read more