Original Post:
I will NOT purchase another diamond piece from the Na Hoku line in the future. What appeared to be a quality diamond ring, was quite cheap after I had it a few months. I loved the jewelry in the store, and I had purchased Koa wood pieces from Na Hoku in the past. For Christmas, I decided that it was time I purchase a blue diamond ring, and I thought of no place other than Na Hoku because the pieces were stunning. I purchased a cocktail blue diamond ring with white diamond halo and small diamonds scaling the side of the ring. I received the ring about 8 weeks later because they had to specially make the ring in my size. I received the ring near the end of February.
It was beautiful, but approx. 4 months after I received the ring a diamond on the halo was missing. I was shocked because it was new and I had not worn it out often. I went back to the store and they stated that they would send it off to be repaired, but because it was outside the 90 day time-frame I would be charged if it appeared the ring was damaged by their repair facility. As I suspected they would come back and tell me, the ring was "damaged" by me and it would cost $30 to repair. The manager was courteous and only charged me $15 for the repair because it was new.
Due to the travel and work, I was unable to go out to the store to pick up the ring after it was returned a few weeks later. I saw the ring and it appeared fine when I inspected it, however, this was to the naked eye. I wore it out the store that day and was happy to have my ring back. Two days later, I notice ANOTHER diamond was missing now on the band. I own several pieces of diamond jewelry and I have never had problems with "diamonds falling out" of my pieces that are several years old.
The quality of the craftmanship for their diamond pieces is severely lacking, and I am sure they will feed me another line on how it must have been "my fault it was damaged." Na Hoku is already over-priced and they do not provide discounts at their store, but I thought I was buying a quality piece. Now I realized that I overpaid for a cheap diamond ring, that seems to be costing me more and more. I could have purchased a beautiful blue diamond ring from another retailer and it would have been insured by their company for issues like this. Now I know why Na Hoku did not offer insurance, it's because the diamond would constantly need to be repaired. Although I do not have any problems with the store, I am extremely disappointed in this brand. I will now be shying away from purchasing diamond pieces, if any pieces at this point.
UPDATE 12/01/2015:
As I had stated before, I was not displeased with the actual store location or their service. The store manager contacted me after hearing about my unfortunate situation and was very kind in offering either to provide store credit and exchange the piece for another piece(s) at the store, or to have it repaired at no cost and shipped directly to me instead of the store. After perusing the store, I did not see anything that captivated me quite like the piece I had originally bought. I opted to have it fixed again, but the manager informed me that if I was still not satisfied later, I could exchange the piece - but she did not expect to have any future problems because she was going to have their diamond team inspect the entire ring.
I received the ring very quickly, approx. 2 weeks later. Of course I still love this piece, and was only disappointed with the quality, and that diamonds kept popping out. It has been a couple of weeks since I received it, and I have not had any problems with the diamonds on the occasions that I have worn it. Mostly, I just appreciate that Na Hoku took responsibility of my satisfaction and their product, and recognized that the situation was not okay and did something to rectify it. I am still disappointed that it took social media to trigger the appropriate response, but in the end they took the right steps to gain customer satisfaction and that goes a long way in choosing a person's next jewelry purchase destination. read more