Have You Driven a Ford Lately?

I talked about Burger King doing it right in a previous blog post. They’ve been running some good viral campaigns lately like “Delete 10 Facebook Friends and Get a Free Whopper” and others. So they get the social media stuff. Now I just ran across Ford doing the same. Now, before I get started I […]

We Are Moving, We Are Moving!

“We are moving, we are moving” is one of my favorite lines from Trading Places. Well, we are moving our store across the street. Please check out our Flickr Page to see the progress. We are very excited about this change for our store and for the entire block. The corner we are on now […]

Cash4Gold on the Super Bowl?

Well, Cash4Gold is buying a Super Bowl ad. Let me let you in on a little secret. They are a scam! I’m not just saying this because they’re competition. Forget about the fact that they do not require ID and don’t report their items to the state (as you are required to do as a […]

Back to The Cold, Burger King is Doing it Right

Just got back from vacation to Florida. Great seeing all of my Florida friends, hanging on the beach, even got a little jam session in. Now I’m back and BAM! It’s freezing. When I left this morning for work it was 6 degrees. Florida for the winter sounds like a plan, but it’ll be a […]

How was 2008 for the BIG retailers?

Well, the fourth quarter numbers haven’t come out yet, but this Holiday season was a tough one for retail, especially jewelry and luxury. According to National Jeweler, “online sales of jewelry and watches didn’t fare well this holiday season (Nov. 1-Dec. 24), falling 24 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the […]

In The Wall Street Journal…And Some Great Spanish Food

Well, the facebook unfriending or de-friending fiasco has almost come to a close. The Wall St Journal found my blog post and interviewed me about this issue. Wow – and I even got a sketch in there or a “hedcut” – although I don’t like the chins they put in there – oy vey. Click […]

Gold and Platinum, Big Blue Diamond – Watch These Kids Play Phish

It’s been a while since I posted, but that’s a good thing because we are busy selling (and buying) diamonds. Now is the time. We have a lot of items on sale, and we are making some great jewelry buys from customers coming in to our store, and from all over the country. We are […]

Diamonds as an Investment

Stocks are in the toilet, real estate is going down, and even the commodities market is too volatile to stay invested. Our positions in gold and other metals are short term, and I would not recommend holding gold at this point. So what about diamonds? There will always be a demand for them and it’s […]

Crazy Times in the Jewelry World

The jewelry industry, like most other retail sectors, is really feeling the hit of this economy. Check out this article about the what the wealthy want to spend this Christmas. Nothing makes sense. Of course retail sales are pretty slow, but in this economy there is money to be made if you can lay out […]

Best of Baltimore

I got an email from a friend of mine today that we were chosen “Best Place to Get an Engagement Ring” by the City Paper. I had no idea. The crazy thing was that their write up was perfect to our brand. If I were to tell them exactly what to write in the article, […]

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