I am one to do my research so I took it to three different jewelers today to get another opinion. Basically, all three were surprised it’s only a month old and worn very carefully. The one who spent the longest with me explained that the prongs are totally wrong for these stones, showed me how another is loose, and when we looked at it under the magnifier, the gold is pitted and unpolished in places. The aquamarines they used were such bad quality they didn’t even know how to rate them. The center stone is off center and basically, the quality sucks. All three stores quoted me at least $500 to fix it, possibly more depending on what happens as they start working on it. My FH and I will be calling the company he purchased it from and arguing for a refund but we’re just over the 30 day mark (36 days..) so I doubt they’ll want to do anything.
Now I’m so torn. If they don’t do anything about it (highly doubting it), would you just get a new setting? Try to fix this one even though the way it’s constructed, the side stones will constantly fall out?
