About Best Jewelry Stores
An analysis of shopping at online jewelry stores
Advantages:
1. Save Money
Many online jewelry stores do not have the expenses of a fancy, "brick and mortar" establishment in a mall or shopping center, so can pass these savings on to the customer. In some cases, they don't actually stock their merchandise in advance of sale so also save paying interest on inventory loan charges, a large expense.
For example, we list over 60,000 diamonds from major wholesalers and sell them at about half jewelry store prices. Click here to find out more at our Loose Diamond pages.
2. Larger Inventory
Our contemporary supplier is the largest in the US with a finished jewelry stock of tens of thousands of pieces.
Local stores only carry a fraction of their inventory but use catalogs and provide a computer to visit the supplier's website to find additional items.
You can view our huge online catalog by clicking on the HOME link at the top of the page, plus you will find that our prices are about half their list retail value, made possible because we don't stock these items in advance of sale.
3. Save time, gas and sales tax charges.
It is predicted that up to 70% of all major shopping will be done on the Internet within the next 10 years.
Not only do you save money and get a larger selection, but save the time of going from store to store to find what you need, save on the gas to do so and save on the sales tax when we ship outside of Florida.
4. Better Buyer Education.
In general, online jewelry stores give more detailed information about their products and provide representatives easy to reach by email or phone.
For example, our stores gives full details on how to read a diamond certificate found by clicking on this link. This contains data essential for making the right decision using our charts and tables that can be printed for easy reference.
Disadvantages
1. Viewing Before Purchase.
This is the main drawback for online jewelry store purchases. It is necessary for clothing that needs to be tried on, but not as important for jewelry and diamonds if you know the required wrist and finger sizes that are exact measurements.
Most online jewelry stores have a blanket money back guarantee if the item is returned in a reasonable time. We refund immediately on all items returned unchanged within seven days of receipt.
2.Trusting Internet merchants.
The reason banks and fancy jewelry stores are in such big buildings is to build trust. Yet banks are in bad trouble at this writing and fancy jewelry stores, who charge three times wholesale costs to cover their overhead, are closing down because people are switching to buying online.
Buying jewelry and diamonds online have safeguards.
We belong to the Jewelers Board of Trade, and Jewelers Vigilance Committee both of which monitor ethical and financial conduct of jewelry stores on the Internet.
We are Headdress Jewelry and Accessories, incorporated in Florida since 1990 and located in St.Petersburg with thousands of satisfied customers.
We do antique and jewelry shows, and started selling online in 1997 with this website: www.Antique-EstateJewelry.com listing over 500 select jewelry and designer accessory items.
We then found that we could list and sell loose diamonds and contemporary jewelry at about half jewelry store prices so created additional sites that have now be incorporated into this main one.
We list over 60,000 loose diamonds, fine contemporary jewelry including a large variety of engagement rings, and antique and estate jewelry at our Antique and Estate Shopping Pages found HERE.
You are invited to check them all out.
If you have any questions, email them to us at Best Jewelry Stores , or telephone 800-498-7302.
