Hey, quick question!
Why do I have to go through Donner Party levels of trials and tribulations
tribs and tries
to not be scammed😍😍😍
out of anything😍😍😍😍
anywhere from a bagged salad
to a haircut
to a plane ticket
to a car
to a house
to a hotel
to an engagement ring?????!!!
Why do I need
🤠God-tier🤠
levels
of background
and research
and iNduStrY kNoWledGe
and a book of riddles
and the first 700 digits of Pi
and a friend of a friend of a friend
whose friend
also uSeD tO bE a jEwElEr
and they kNoW a gUy
WHY DO I NEED TO DO THAT
JUST to buy something that doesn't suck😍😍😍
And I'm not just talking about jewelry.
The only reason why I'm
what instigated this
was I just watched a
4 minute,
48 second video
of a guy, of a jeweler, right?
Explaining to people
how to spot when ✨extremely popular✨ jewelers
FAMOUS JEWELERS
not “oh well you bought it from Etsy🤨”
“so what can you do?😔”
NO❤️
Actual real professional
jewelers
that are popular
thousands of followers
Not some homegrown
“small business🥀☺️
“self employed!”
“come with meee to start a jewelry shop”
No😍
🚨jewelers🚨
that are 😍scamming people🥳
out of CUSTOM!!! engagement rings.
He's like “oh yeah,”
“so they will say it's custom,”
“but if it looks like this,”
“but if the bevel is lower
than the badukaduk,”
then you know you need to get out a measur—”
Why do I have a measuring tape out!!!!!!
“Oh, they're drop shipping these rings😕”
THEY’RE DROP SHIPPING ENGAGEMENT RINGS
and telling people they're custom???
Why is everything a scam😍
And I'm not just talking about rings!
I'm talking about cars,
houses,
plane tickets,
hotels—
It didn't used to be like this😍😍
We are all in strait jackets,
rolling around a pillow-full room
pretending as if this is just normal.
we got. You have to do you.
You didn't know you had to do four hours of research?
to get a haircut that wasn't a f*cking ripoff?
NO I DIDN’T KNOW THAT
I wasn't aware of that😌🫵
Because it didn't used to be like this.
There used to be a Better Business Bureau and people,
organizations who were held accountable.
Businesses used to be afraid of being sued a little bit more
because fraudulent misrepresentation is a claim.
You could sue them for class actions,
blah, blah, blah.
But it wasn't just that. It wasn't just, oh, oh,
the only thing that we have to protect us is lawsuits.
No, it used to be that you didn't.
This wasn’t a requirement in order to not get scammed. Like.
Like the people who were getting scammed back in the day,
it was like, oh,
because they wanted to save a few dollars, right?
They're going through the Etsy shop,
they're going through, you know, some.
Like the. The people who were.
Who were kind of sketchy and you're taking a risk.
Peop—NOW, it's the opposite😃
it feels like. Oh, no,
I wanna go to, like,
a legitimate jeweler. Like a legitimate person.
Wedding dress shop. You know,
LLC,
full shebang😍
You know, been around the business for a long time.
Have a storefront.
No, like❤️
you will also get scammed that way as well❤️
You. They're drop shipping 😍😍😍😍😍
your engagement ring😍😍😍😍😍
Why do I have to memorize the Rosetta Stone to speak a language?
I don't. I don't.
I am paying you to speak for me.
I'm at my wit’s end.
My wit is at an end.