February 23, 2014

Why you should never, ever shop at Tiffany & Co. (and funny stuffs)

The necklace Scott gave me for my birthday broke.  This is the email I ended up sending to Tiffany & Co. customer service last night.

I’m writing to say that I recently received a necklace from Tiffany & Co. as a birthday gift.  After wearing it, just daily, for a couple of weeks, the chain broke.  It didn’t snap, nothing in particular caused it to break; I just looked down and it was hanging loosely from my neck.  I’m actually lucky I didn’t lose it.
When I contacted Tiffany & Co. about a repair, I was told to send it in and it would be evaluated to see if repair was possible.  I paid $20 in shipping via UPS.  A week later, I received an email telling me it would/could be repaired for a fee of $41.69. 

We paid $___ for this necklace.  And a company like Tiffany & Co. can’t guarantee and/or repair their own work?  You charge extra for repair work?  I find that deplorable and shameful, as well as ridiculous.  It is companies like yours that we will refuse to do business with.  Previously, we’ve bought other jewelry from Tiffany & Co. and have found the purchases and service to be very satisfactory. After this experience, I can guarantee Tiffany & Co. that we will no longer be purchasing any products from your company.  I also will not hesitate to spread the word that a thought-to-be-reputable company, sadly, does not offer reputable service.


I'm annoyed, in case you can't tell.  I paid the money, but no more little blue boxes will be showing up for members of this household.  Feel free to spread the word.
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Anyway…Friday night found me on Pinterest.

This is definitely the thought that goes through my head during ice dancing.


Fun fact: I went ice skating once and that was in college.  I couldn't walk for a week.  The shuffling motion killed my quads.  I remember hobbling around campus like it was yesterday…

Ah, it never gets old.


You try explaining to kids that the world isn't flat after looking at maps like this.  Globes, they understand.  The fact that a globe is the SAME EXACT thing as a map, they don't.

Indeed.