While waiting for our plane at Bangkok Airport to come home, Bryan saw his colleague whom happened to be waiting for the same flight too. (Yea, talk about bumping into friends/colleagues. Is it not enough that he always bump into a friend or colleague back in KL? Go Bangkok also can happen? Don't get me wrong. This post is not about him bumping into friends or colleagues.)

Anyways, this couple, arrived Bangkok the same day as we did. Like us, the got "conned" into some shops selling gems. But we are not as lucky as they were as the gem shop provided transportation for them during their entire stay. WOW!

They must have bought a lot from the gem shop.

So, Bryan exchanged our experience with them, telling them that we haggled a lot and finally got a ruby+diamond ring at almost 70% off @ less than RM 1000. Then they said the shop they went to did not have anything less than RM 1000. I'm sure!

Almost the next day, that colleague told Bryan the amount of their purchase and that he's sending those gems for evaluation at Habib Jewels. I was thinking " What for?". RM 6,000 is a big sum. But yet, it's not big enough for one to travel back to Bangkok. You get what I mean?.

After a week or two, the colleague got the evaluation from Habib Jewels and updated Bryan about it. Habib Jewels evaluated it at a few hundred ringgit. But then, they thought the colleague wanted to trade those gems in for something else. (So we were told by the colleague. I guess he's hoping that the real value, not the trade-in value of the gems would be much higher). But come on, how much higher can it be? Let's say it's double. Which makes, like RM 2000.

Haiyo. What for? Now even worse. He should have just appreciate his purchase.

I'm not in denial. But I bought the ring because I like the design and the colour of the stone. I sure will not send them anywhere for evaluations. But, ~ahem, "what you don't know, won't kill you." :p