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    Hamilton Jewelers

    4.3 (26 reviews)

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    Roxanne O.

    Brought in a pair of earrings that belonged to my grandmother to get repaired, that she hid from the communist & smuggled into Canada when she came. Come to find out from Ivan that this pair is as even older than I expected. I got not only a history lesson on how they were made & when but the best service I've had all my life. They really took care of these earrings & constantly communicated to me what was happening with them & where in the process they were.

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    I have never written a review before and this is a long one. If you don't have time to read the whole thing, suffice it to say that I would discourage anyone from using Hamilton's. In a nutshell, they lost my jewelry, have an archaic and horribly flawed intake and storage process, may or may not have video surveillance, and communicate with customers in an aggressive and defensive manner. If you drop your jewelry with them for repairs, be prepared to never see it again. I dropped off my wedding ring, wedding bands and a gold chain with Hamilton jewelers the week before Christmas. I gave everything to Lois, the lady generally working in the front of the store. We had a conversation about the repairs I needed done to my rings as well as the gold chain. I watched her write it down and then she told me that they may be able to have it finished before Christmas. I thought it seemed like a quick turnaround so I commented to her that, should it not be ready before Christmas, I would have to come get it a few weeks after Christmas, as we were traveling for the holidays. She said she would call to let me know when they had it ready I do not remember leaving with a receipt or ticket. I never heard from them, so I called about a month after drop off to check on the jewelry's status. I spoke to Lois and she said she could not find my jewelry or my ticket, but would look and call me back. About an hour later, another employee, Emily, called to ask me some questions about when I dropped the jewelry off and what my jewelry looked like. I described it to her and sent her a few pictures via text. She called again later that day to tell me that they had not located my jewelry, but that, Ivan, the main jeweler was not working that day and so, without him, they only had access to 60% of the safes. She said that they would open everything up and look in the morning and let me know. At this point, I was getting pretty nervous, and I asked Emily if I should be scared. She responded that I should not because they just recently located a piece of jewelry that another customer had dropped off for repairs. Apparently, the jewelry had fallen in between some cabinets while Hamilton employees were transitioning it from one place to another within the store. Emily further reassured me that she would continue looking and asked me to keep sending pictures of the ring. At this point, I asked if they had video surveillance of the store that we could preserve. She replied that the video tapes were all cleared at the New Year and it would be impossible to access it. The next morning, shortly after Hamilton's opened, Emily called to tell me to go ahead and file an insurance claim on the jewelry as it was not in their store. I obviously freaked out and begged her to let me come look for myself. She responded that it was too much of a liability to let me come look and further encouraged me to file an insurance claim. That afternoon, my husband stopped by Hamilton's to see if he could get any additional information. Ivan, the jeweler, greeted him by shouting from the back, "I heard your wife had the corona virus. You need to check the hospital because the doctors take your rings before you get treatment." It was a strange accusation, completely unfounded, and asserted in an aggressive and intimidating manner. It was clear that Ivan was on the defensive and he was unwilling to even consider that the ring had been misplaced by himself or his staff. He proceeded to dominate the conversation by loudly and aggressively reviewing Hamilton's intake process and repeating that, in his 54 years of service, he had never lost one ring. He then asked my husband to come in the back with him so that he could see how everything was organized. My husband noted that there were rows of tickets on top of cabinets and work spaces and that on top of each ticket, there were stacks of rings and other jewelry. The jewelry on top of the tickets was not contained in any sort of bag or box. It was obvious that any misstep in the cluttered work space could easily result in someone knocking over or otherwise disheveling these random stacks of jewelry. It was no way to safely keep other people's jewelry. Ivan then showed my husband a "ticket" with a stone much like the one I needed replaced in my ring. Ivan explained that this was the only evidence that they had that I had ever been in the store. He explained that Lois had told him that I wanted my stone replaced but that we couldn't afford it before Christmas so, instead of leaving my rings with Lois, I took them back with me so that I could bring them when we could afford the repair. My husband then questioned if it was Hamilton's common practice to preorder or purchase cut stones for rings they did not yet have. Furthermore, my husband questioned how it was possible to cut a stone for a ring that was not in their possession. Ivan responded, in his typical defensive and aggressive nature, that he had been a

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