Category: | Jeweler |
Address: | 9153 Wicker Ave, St John, IN 46373, USA |
Phone: | +1 219-365-1246 |
Site: | malinichjewelers.com |
Rating: | 4.3 |
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A Private User
Malinich installed a new watch battery for me. I didnt look at the watch until the next morning and noticed that a dial on it was spinning rather fast. I went back and asked him to take a look at it. I asked as nicely as I could if maybe he installed an incorrect battery or nicked something while installing the battery. I explained that the dial on the watch was not spinning fast when I brought it in for the new battery. He told me it was a specialized watch and I should contact Seiko and/or send it to them to check it out. He started getting defensive and raising his voice at me. The woman there was nice and told me that he was frustrated with watch batteries. Im not sure what that meant. Was he frustrated with the quality of watch batteries he was getting? Was he frustrated with having to install watch batteries? Was he frustrated with complaints about watch batteries? Was he frustrated with people coming in with the $2 coupon for a watch battery install? In any case, I was just looking for an answer about my watch. I am willing to accept that this dial spinning fast was a coincidence with a new battery install. I didnt know why the watch dial was spinning fast and I tried to talk with him about possible explanations, and more importantly, what to do to fix it. The fact that he raised his voice at me and took out his battery frustrations on me made me decide to leave their store and never go back. I then took the watch to Roger Bonnema, a jeweler in South Holland. He looked at the watch and had it working properly five minutes later. It turns out, there was nothing wrong with the watch. Roger explained to me that the fast spinning dial was a function of the alarm – an alarm I didn’t even know the watch had. Shame on me for not knowing about the functions of the watch, but if Malinich had just taken a few minutes to try to diagnose that fast spinning dial on the watch, I think that visit to them would have ended cordially and this review would not exist. I was going to give Malinich one star instead of two, but everyone has a bad day once in a while, and I didnt know that this dial in question was part of the alarm function of my watch.
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Heidi lane
lovely family business. They have the best unique jewelry selection anyone can appreciate and the best prices anywhere. very grateful i finally found a genuine jeweler where i can trust to take care of all my jewelry needs. you would be crazy to buy jewelry anywhere else! thank you so much for my custom pendant i get complements everyday!
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Jacob Frame
I stopped in to get my wife a necklace for Christmas and they had a beautiful necklace that my wife loves! They even gift wrapped it for me while I went to get cash from the atm so my wife wouldnt know where I got her gift!
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Jodie Conover
Had a watch repaired here. Great job at a reasonable price. Owners and staff are wonderful people.
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george DOUS
They fixed 10 of my watches easily
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Toni Bordelon
The nicest people around
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joyce pagano
Wonderful workmanship
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Eric Barnhart
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