Golden Stones

Have you ever heard of stones made with gold ? This is the story...

This Akshaya tritiya day we purchased a gold necklace from a famous jewelery in T Nagar, Chennai weighing around 18.2 grams. They charged us a flat rate of Rs 873/gram (that day's gold rate) for entire ornament including the stones !!! Totally Rs 18,613/- including VAT and Rs 2,540 wastage. ie around Rs 1,022 per gram. That necklace was full of stones. I think at lest 8 gram was stones. For those cheap stones also they charged us in gold rates !! That too they had a offer like "No stone charges".

So no stone charges means stones will be charged at gold rates !!!

Unfortunately we didnt notice this at the time of purchase.. After reached home when checking bills I found out this. Then immediately i called up the shop. They told us they cannot reduce the stone weight. I told them we have bills from famous jewelleries in Kerala which clearly mentioned stone weight and finally reduced stone weight from overall weight. Then they were telling in kerala you will not get 916 ornaments. This same shop we exchanged a kerala made ornament on same day and they paid it in 916 rates !!

Next day we went there and told them to either reduce the stone weight or give us a replacement. Finally they agreed to give a replacement and we exchanged it with another necklace without stones.

Jewelleries are coming up with different tricks to attract customers for golden days like Akshaya Tritiya. This shop also was having offers like No Making Charges, No Stone Charges, Discount on Diamond Jewelleries etc.

We checked with our old jewellery bills from kerala and there is no wastage for new jeweleries. So I think here with No Making Charge offer they are collecting the making charge as "Wastage".