Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Good (or Bad) Shop Guide => Topic started by: Janet F on September 04, 2016, 17:38:03 PM
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last year, when staying in hisaronu, i purchased some jewellery that was sold to me as zultanite which i was informed was only mined in turkey. the stones are meant to change colour in different light situations which mine did. later after arrival back in the uk i decided to see if it was possible to purchase the same stones from uk jewellers. when performing the search, i came across a posting that was warning people about buying thes stones in turkey as there were a lot of fakes around which were just couloured glass. as a result i decided to have my pieces checked by the assay office in birmingham. gues what - they turned out to be fake. not only had i paid a lot of money for the pieces but it cost a fair bit to be told that they were not the real thing. i cannot be sure if the jeweller in question new what he was selling or whether he was "ripped off " as well from his gem supplier. other items bought from him have been ok. I do not wish to mention names at this stage but if anyone has managed to source the real thing, i would love to know where from.
thanks, janet f
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There's plenty of info about zultanite on t'internet.
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i cannot be sure if the jeweller in question new what he was selling or whether he was "ripped off " as well from his gem supplier. other items bought from him have been ok. I do not wish to mention names at this stage but if anyone has managed to source the real thing, i would love to know where from.
thanks, janet f
Sorry to hear of your experience Janet F but surely the jeweler should have known what he was buying from his supplier.
PS the first member to mention rubies gets it ! :) (Sorry Janet F - story on here from a long time ago.)
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You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair..............
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A few years ago a friend of mine paid £ 600 for what the jeweller told her was Tansanite, this also turned out to be just a coloured stone, I wonder if it was the same jeweller !!!
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I read you post on T.A where the Jeweller was named. It is a Jeweller, I personally would not use.
I have a Zultanite ring, bought in Calis. I also have a full receipt which gives the stone, the diamond details and weight,also the Karat of Gold. it is dated and signed with a Jeweller's name, address and phone number.
If you get a receipt and you find out the piece of jewellery is "wrong" you then have redress.
The question is, do you have a full receipt?
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Where would you report this to even if you had a receipt? And if the shop had closed?
Who is the jeweller that falsely sold this? Why not name and shame if it definitely is fake?
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You should begin by reporting it to the Zabita Polis. They are the equivalent of the UK's Trading Standards.
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Where would you report this to even if you had a receipt? And if the shop had closed?
Who is the jeweller that falsely sold this? Why not name and shame if it definitely is fake?
The Jeweller has not closed, with a full receipt you take the piece of jewellery back to him, with the report you got about it in the U.K and demand your money back.
It is up to the O.P to name the Jeweller, it is on Trip Adivsor.
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Well I am probably daft but I can't see anything on TA! How do I find it? And if named on there, why can't it be shown here?
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Daft here too, I can't see a thing about it at TA
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But if it was on Trip Advisor would you trust it?
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Well maybe not, but if I can't even see it, how do I know?
And sorry KKOB, I don't think zabita are the equivalent of trading standards in the uk. That is a minefield anyway.......in the uk I mean.
Zabita check market and shops, but not for this sort of thing.
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O.K. This is from T.A. It was a thread started a few years ago about a Jewellery Shop someone else in the area.
These remarks where added recently. I am only showing you what is here and am not commenting on them.
It is up to members to make up their own minds.
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Janet
Hi there,
I have only just read your review about Fethiye Jewellers. I have had an even worse experience last year. I paid a visit to another jewellers in the same town, just to have a browse, when another customer came in ( not Turkish, i might add!! ) to see some jewellery set with a colour changing stone called Zultanite (only mined in Turkey). On viewing several pieces, I purchased a matching pendant and ear-rings which cost me £640 pounds. Yes they did change colour, but rather too brightly. Since I was not returning to Turkey until 2017, I decided too check on-line to see if I could buy in the UK. " jewellers in my home town of Rugby had never heard of it and I was advised to get it checked by the Assay Office in Birmingham. This I did at a cost of £123 pounds (to include a written report) only to discover that the stones were just coloured glass !!
Ther was also a Trade Alert on the internet advising people not to but this stone in Turkey as it appears that there are a lot of dishonest jewellers passing off glass as the real thing This is probably unfair to the the genuine traders around, but how do you tell real from fake? As an aside, I also purchased a ring set with "Tanzanite" likely from the same place as yourself, and I had doubts about that as well since it looked much different to a piece bought from my local manufacturing jeweller! It really is a severe case of "Buyer beware"
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Kim
I have used Dikkman Jewellers in Fethiye for years. On getting things assessed on return to UK found gold carat and diamond size exactly as stated on jewellery certificate and valued at over twice what I paid. You can check out gold and diamond prices online before you shop which gives you a bit of an idea. They also clean my jewellery for free every year and have their own workshop so can do alterations quickly. They are on a corner in the pedestrian steets fairly near the umbrella street
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Janet
Thanks for the info . They were the jewellers that sold me the fake stones !!!. To be fair, maybe he was sold a fake batch from his gem suppplier. I will be returning next year to show him the report and see what he says. Like you say, before this occasion, other pieces I have bought have been "as described".
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This is not Janet's post. But...... So why did you buy them if they changed colour too brightly? I don't know so much about these type of stones but do know that the fake ones are more bright.
But still you have not said the jeweller, is it Dikmen?
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Janet's post is at the bottom Lissa - and the post above it mentions Dikkman.