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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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, 
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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.