Q Talk

[foregolf]

Years ago I purchased quite a few Judith Ripka pieces when she was in jewelry stores. I have real gold, actual gemstones even diamonds and sterling which although i realize metals have gone up, were priced right for their value. The JR jewelry on QVC is simply not worth the price, it's often simulated gemstones and stering and the prices are outrageous, the "value" in these pieces ARE NOT there, they are Punched out of a mold and simply too high priced.  Moreover, QVC needs to bring in more jewelry designers, today's jewelry gemstone day is like a Judith Ripka, aka Ripoff day. Tiring and boring and overpriced for what the product actually is.

[GSPgirl]

I completely agree!  I get this feeling that QVC just has these boring shows to placate us.  They don't really care about the quality or care to have new designers.  

[nana59]

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@GSPgirl wrote:

I completely agree!  I get this feeling that QVC just has these boring shows to placate us.  They don't really care about the quality or care to have new designers.  

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 Good news.....just read where full hours of diamonique are coming back.....really?!  Ugh!

[KYToby]

This is costume jewelry o a shopping vhannel.  If you want fine jewelry, shop elsewhere. 

This is QVC -- not Tiffany -- and clearly the products sell, so why should QVC change?

[GSPgirl]

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@KYToby wrote:

This is costume jewelry o a shopping vhannel.  If you want fine jewelry, shop elsewhere. 

This is QVC -- not Tiffany -- and clearly the products sell, so why should QVC change?

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Huh? Obviously you haven't been shopping here for years like a lot of us.  Not asking it to be like Tiffany's.  I just want what we had 10 to 20 years ago. 

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[Zita]

Actually, it is like high end costume jewelry. Give me Charming Charlie any day! It's fun, trendy, and really inexpensive and the effect is just the same as these higher priced vendors.

Agree that HSN has awful stuff, whether it purports to be"real" or not.

[momtochloe]

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@GSPgirl wrote:

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@KYToby wrote:

This is costume jewelry o a shopping vhannel.  If you want fine jewelry, shop elsewhere. 

This is QVC -- not Tiffany -- and clearly the products sell, so why should QVC change?

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Huh? Obviously you haven't been shopping here for years like a lot of us.  Not asking it to be like Tiffany's.  I just want what we had 10 to 20 years ago. 

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I couldn't agree more @GSPgirl.  I have purchased many of Judith's pieces through the years (please note the early years) and have been more than pleased until one of her bracelets literally fell apart on my wrist when walking into a restaurant.

They were more than kind about replacing it which I appreciated until I received the replacement and it was half the weight and quality of my original bracelet both the weight of the silver and the quality of the stones.  To be honest, if I had known I would be receiving a sub-par piece of jewelry I would have opted for trying to see if the bracelet could have been repaired as it was a great piece of jewelry.

At that point I pretty much stopped purchasing her jewelry but do enjoy and still wear her original pieces.

[Karnerblue]

Then was then, this is now.  You can't go back in time.

[LilacTree]

I'm sorry, but I laughed out loud when I saw the title of this thread!!