Meeting Your Custom Pittsburgh Jewelers

By Joyce Cook


Nowadays, you will find shops selling and dealing with jewelry almost anywhere. Finding and shopping for jewelry has thus become easy with stores that can be conveniently accessed. However there exists a difference between individual stores that one should note. Being a high end item of sale, most stores will take pride in providing fitting customer service. On the other hand, there are unscrupulous business people pretending to be pittsburgh jewelers who can take you for a ride.

Much of their time is spent meeting with customers and understanding exactly what it is they want in their custom jewelry. As custom jewelers are people too, it's not hard to imagine that this can often be their favorite part of the job. The social aspect of these meetings cannot be overstated, and real relationships are built between customer and jeweler throughout the series of meetings that occur.

But what can you, as a customer, expect from these meetings? From the opening chat through to the final presentation of the piece, here's a taste of what might happen when you meet your custom jeweler.

The internet. Do your research, read reviews. View a stores website, see what they have to offer and how they present themselves. Visit local jewelry stores and see how they present themselves and how they treat you. If their store looks bad and the staff treat you rudely or ignores you. You have pretty much had an opinion of the store ready-made for you. If the store looks very nice and the staff treat you and the store's items with respect. Chances are you have found a good and maybe even best, a local jeweler.

Purchasing jewelry in large volumes is easier said than done. In the first place, wholesale jewelers need to be liquid to secure their supply. They cannot buy any piece of jewelry if they have no means. Once you understand the business of wholesale jewelers, you will realize why the jewelry of your choice can either be too expensive or readily affordable.

Ongoing follow-up meetings- One of the first tasks that need to be taken care of in follow-up meetings with your jeweler is to view a collection of stones that may be used in your final piece. Having ascertained the color or style you have in mind during the first meeting, your jeweler can then source examples for you to choose from. As the design and creation process continues through the sketching and rendering stages, further meetings can take place over Skype or even email if visiting the store isn't convenient for the customer. Scans of drawings and photographs of the clay model can be sent and approved, with regular progress reports possible too.

In fact, not all buyers are experts; a small number are familiar with gemstones and different jewelry design techniques. Most of the time, you would have to depend on the guidance of your jeweler, so select one that you can safely rely on. Getting feedback from the jeweler's customers is a good source to understand the capability of your jeweler

After going through the process, from initial meeting through viewing the sketches and renderings, seeing your final piece sparkling and ready to be worn is an understandably emotional moment. For your custom jeweler, witnessing the joy on your face the moment you open the box is priceless; many jewelers rank this split-second as the favorite part of their entire job.




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