PLATED JEWELRY-SELLS FAKE JEWELRY! I am leaving this everywhere I can find regarding this scam of a company!This company (Baby Gold, LLC aka ASHIKIAN JEWELRY GROUP and whatever other names they choose to go by lol) sells fake gold and labels it real gold. Of course no resolution or refund, just your typical run-of-the-mill responses that don't benefit the customer. They don't offer refunds at all (now I see why). Anyway, I purchased a few items from them and found out they weren't real 14k gold. My chain had hair stuck on it, and it's standard to run a lighter (Bic) across the item to burn the hair off. I ran the lighter across the chain for a few seconds and the chain immediately darkened, permanently discolored, and melted (broke). It revealed the metal underneath the plated gold. 14K gold does not do this.A bic lighter is unable to melt gold. It doesn't have enough heat to do so. If a Bic lighter is melting your "gold" jewelry, the gold item is fake and incredibly cheap in quality especially so for a plated item. Balls to charge for this cheap crap!I proceeded to do a few more tests to provide evidence, because by this time I'm going back and forth with their CS department which is trying to gaslight me about the items, whether intentional or not. It could be that they just do not know how real gold reacts to heat. Anyway, I created a video so it could be in real-time, but prior to the video, I provided pictures of a gold-filled bracelet and the junkware they were fraudulently selling as real gold. Both items were 99% identical in damage. All they offered was a replacement, HALF OFF lol. Incredible! So you want me to pay for more of your fake jewelry? I don't think so!Getting back to the gold test..Regarding the pictures I sent, the gold-filled bracelet and their junk..The difference is that the gold-filled bracelet didn't melt but Baby Gold's item certainly did; this speaks to using incredibly cheap metal EVEN WITH the fake gold they are passing off as real. How much of a scammer can you get with this? lolThey are charging a premium for cheap plated mess that MELTS lol, when one could easily purchase a cheap store-bought plated necklace that would not even melt! The plating would come off, but it wouldn't melt!For the video, I lit a gold-plated necklace and a personal item of mine that was real 14k gold which I provided to Baby Gold's CS team. The 14K item that was mine reacted the way gold reacts to a standard lighter, you get some soot and it wipes off and returns to its color. There is no permanent discoloration, no melting, no breaking off and no revealing of a different metal! The fire was held for 30 seconds. The soot came right off! That's how you know it's real gold.Many companies pass off non-genuine gold by using different metals that mimic real gold alloy characteristics. So it will be able to pass the magnet test, the float/sink test etc, but what it cannot pass is FIRE or the acid test kit which I didn't have.In the video, I also showed a comparison of a lit BG's necklace and bracelet compared to the cheap plated necklace I purchased (of the same thickness) and my 14k gold piece. Now the thickness of 14k gold or any metal has no bearing on the melting point, as the MP is a constant. So if you put fire to a thin copper wire it would require copper's melting point. Regardless, I wanted to show the chain similarity and the reaction to the metal.BG's necklace and bracelet had WORSE damage than the store-bought plated necklace that had stainless steel as its base. BG's piece MELTED within 5 SECONDS of being lit! It melted like TIN. Nothing but GARBAGE.This is a WARNING to anyone who comes across this company! RUN FAR AWAY! They are SCAMMERS! I will be reporting to BBB and FTC!!Oh and the reviews are FILTERED!!! They only allow 5 stars!! I am 95% sure this company gets fake jewelry from China and drop-ships it to the store in L.A.!If I could post photos I would!!! I saw the red flags but ignored them!!! Don't be like me!!!!
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