My 'Diamond' Engagement Ring is Cubic Zirconia !!!

DSmiffy

I'm in shock.....the diamond engagement ring I've been wearing since 1988 lost a stone and I took it to a local jewellers for repair only to be told that all the stones in the ring are not actually diamonds but cubic zirconia !!!

I can't believe it... luckily for my husband, we were together when we chose and bought the ring otherwise he would have looked a right cheap skate!!

We bought it in 1988 from Ratners ( i know, i know!) for just under £200 and understood it to be a diamond daisy cluster ring in 9ct gold. There's no way we would have paid that money for a cubic zirconia ring over £20 years ago.

Don't suppose there is a thing I can do about it now though is there?? Ratners no longer existant and all that.

Don't get me wrong, i still love the ring, after all it's what it represents that's important, not how much it cost, it wouldn't have mattered if it had come out of a cracker, as long as i knew....Absolutely gutted at the thought that Ratners has taken us both for a ride and let us believe that for the last 21 years i've been wearing a 'diamond' ring and let us pay a fortune (back then) for cubic zirconia

Any thoughts anyone, or anyone had a similar experience ??

tessie_bear

blimey...thats bad if u bought it as a diamond imagine the stick oh would of got if he had gone on his own...or mine would have

ChrisCobra

Fugazi! :d

Kavanne

Seen some daisy diamond rings on eBay lately if you are interested in getting a real diamond? Or you can ask the jeweller to make your ring in diamonds instead.

Felicity

What bad luck! I so feel for you.

As you say though it is the thought that counts. I know, not much help now.

For anybody else reading this, only buy diamonds from a reputable supplier!

Kavanne

Felicity wrote: »

What bad luck! I so feel for you.

As you say though it is the thought that counts. I know, not much help now.

For anybody else reading this, only buy diamonds from a reputable supplier!

Surely the OP thought ratners WAS reputable back in the day!!



Anyway, I've bought diamonds off eBay before and make sure they either: come with a valuation or take them to a reputable jeweller once received for an appraisal

Rachel83

It probably happens more often than you think

OH got me a pair of really expensive diamond earings only for me to open them and close up they are terrible quality Don't get me wrong i'd never return them ever sentimental i guess hehe.

Tbh i don't think you have a claim against them especially if they no longer exist. So i guess you go on loving your cubic zirconia ring no one else will know otherwise unless you say so Or you could maybe try take the ring somewhere reputable and replace the cubic zirconia with diamonds?

Maybe you could do it on a big wedding anniversary or something

NBirdy

I presume the local jewellers IS reputable lol!?

DSmiffy

NBirdy wrote: »

I presume the local jewellers IS reputable lol!?

Ha ha, yes... i did wonder whether someone would go to all the trouble of changing all the stones whilst in the jewellers... but i don't think so.

suki1964

Isnt H Samuel Ratners repackaged? Im sure they were all the same company

Mely

suki1964 wrote: »

Isnt H Samuel Ratners repackaged? Im sure they were all the same company

Suki i was just about to type that!