Irvine Gold Mine

10/16/09

Great place to do business

by kimber120943 at Citysearch

I've been doing business with the gold mine since the early 80's. Over the years, I've dealt with them in a number of different capacities. My husband is a coin collector and works with John at the gold mine buying and selling rare coins. With the economy right now, John has also helped Rick invest in gold and silver bullion. He's extremely knowledgeable and has always been very fair and honest with us. I also used the gold mine to redesign my wedding ring (and "upgrade" the center diamond) a few years back. I still get compliments on it and they clean it for me for free anytime I stop by. It's so convenient... I drop my ring off, run to Ralphs and by the time I get back it looks brand new. It's nice to work with a store that's been around for so long and cares about maintaining its good reputation. I give the Irvine Gold Mine my wholehearted recommendation!

• Pros: fair prices, good customer service
• Cons: none

08/22/08

Very smooth purchase

by sublime40 at Citysearch

They were very helpful, honest, and their jewelry was priced competetively. The manager is EXTREMELY knowledgable and happy to advise customers on very many different topics!!

• Pros: Great!
• Cons: no

10/18/07

Nasty Nasty Place!

by liveyourlife at Citysearch

This place is listed twice here. So I have to review them twice...

I can't imagine why this place is in business with the terrible people that run it and own it. They clearly hire disabled people to keep their costs down. They damaged my property in mere minutes (all they needed to do was change a watch battery!), didn't own up to it, and the disgusting trash of an owner began accusing me for being a troublemaker after they damaged my property! He began YELLING AT ME, and then accused me of coming into his DIVE of a business to "start trouble". Like I have time for that during my lunch break, good grief. Warning to customers, take your fine jewelry elsewhere if you want to see it come back in one piece. Go by appearances, it looks like a hole because it is one. They can't even do an $8 service properly don't trust them with anything.