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1. Welcome to the jewelry “business”. My experience here is that if you don’t know what they’re up to, you can REALLY get taken.

   Comment by FMF — Dec 20th 2005 @ 7:15 am

2. This reminds me of a dry cleaners down the street which has “20% off everyday!” permanently written on their storefront.

   As for jewelry, the only piece of jewelry I’ve ever gotten in a physical store instead of online is my wife’s engagement ring and that was only after extensive research and shopping around online and in stores. It was the only time I’ve ever seen a B&M jewelry store beat all of the online sellers for the same type and quality of merchandise … even with the perpetual 40-60% off!

   Comment by Nick — Dec 20th 2005 @ 9:14 am

3. I have not done a whole lot of jewelry buying; our engagement ring came from a family hand me down, and the work done on it was a friend’s recommendation at a jeweler. Doing the sizing was much cheaper than the buying, I’d think…

   Comment by Blaine Moore — Dec 20th 2005 @ 10:23 am

4. My mom once told me that jewelry is marked up at least 300%, so when it’s 50% off, they’re still making a huge profit. We had friends who were jewelers so I assume that’s where she heard it from.

   Comment by jim — Dec 20th 2005 @ 1:34 pm

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