Monkey Lincoln posted:

We're gonna have fun with you.

Tiffany & Co is not a "Mall Jewler" {sic}, because when the mall stores charge you $300 for a piece of garbage it's st least some karat of gold, and not $3 worth of silver. Saying you get a name and a few flecks of gold would actually be a generous assessment in my eyes.

I've seen the stones T&Co sets in jewelry, and it's nothing special. Pretty average commercial quality, certain not D-IF stones. The better stones you have are same high quality stones you could get from any diamond dealer, but because they are from T&Co they're magically twice as expensive for basically no reason. And you "lead the way in making sure our stones are not blood diamonds"? Who else is going to lead the way you do things?

And Tiffany doesn't have a problem with people counterfeiting jewelry, they have a problem with their jewelry being ridiculously easy to counterfeit. If they don't want people selling junk good with the T&Co name on them, maybe they should knock it off themselves. If T&Co takes 6 grams of silver, worth roughly $2.50, and casts it into a band and sells it for $225, and I can rubber mold that into a duplicate ring with the same 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper, with the same hand done work and same polished finish, for $40, what exactly is it T&Co is selling? Hell, T&Co sells completely plain bands, the kind every jeweler and catalog carries. They want something like $2500 for the same size, width and weight platinum band I can sell for 900, only with "T&Co" stamped inside (Even made with cheaper Cobalt than iridium like they should). Most of their silver and gold jewelry is nothing different, save for a few nice pieces that T&Co sells, still for 200% of what it'd cost to have them made custom.

With all the things T&Co does wrong (aside from your own inability to spell "counterfit jewlery") Tiffany is the Monster Cables of the Jewelry world. 5% substance, 95% marketing. The only difference is if you waste your money on Monster cables you can always use them to hang yourself.