Recent content by jevangelist

Thank you everyone Thank you everyone Thank you everyone, for replying with such interest and help and good thoughts. I will return with the results when the situation is resolved. Maybe something will come out of the experience that can help the next person who gets stuck like this. Regards...

Thank you for your help. I did contact Mr. Arentz and he was helpful. For the moment, I'll wait to see how Amex handles my complaint and if they would need an analysis to go forward.

Thanks. I will keep that in mind, because, after the dust settles I would like to get the kind of gift I intended. Meanwhile, I don't know why I hit reply to one message and it gets posted attached to another. Well, another thing to learn.

hi lisa c - I replied, but to the wrong post. It's on page 2. (You'll probably see it anyway, so saying all that is not necessary... guess it's pretty clear I don't do bulletin boards much)

Oops - hit the wrong button. That was a reply to lisac. Yeah, I was a grade-A sucker. I would accept if it were just an honest price-gouging, but they deceived me - and gouged! Snakeheads.

It was a regular shop, first on the corner going towards the A gates after security. I don't remember the name. It wasn't the yellow "Sunrise Duty Free" shops that are all over the place, but a fancy-looking one that had lots of pearl sets and jewelry in flat display cases. On the Amex receipt...

Boy o boy, I'm getting a education, at least. I looked at the clasp with a magnifier. At best the metal looks silvery. Maybe it's steel. There is stamped on the clasp "PGP.M"

Hi - Thank you for replying. I am really embarrassed - a lifelong New Yorker and I get stuck like this, like buying from one of those guys with a briefcase full of watches. I lodged a dispute with American Express and will now look for an appraiser to get confirmation of the fraud (I only hope...

Thank you. I have lodged a dispute with American Express. I will now look for an appraiser to give written confirmation of the fraud and then will take the matter up with the Chinese embassy here in NY. They seem to be taking a severe stand against fraud and corruption these days. Would you know...

Hi Everyone I went to Shanghai for work two weeks ago and in an airport duty-free shop on a mad inspiration I bought my wife a string of pearls. The lady said they are salt-water natural pearls from Thailand. I don't know anything about pearls but they felt good in my hand. When my wife...