Cash Call BUY - SELL - TRADE | 161 Main St Peabody

Absolute crook. I was in Massachusetts to clean out my parents house in Salem. My mom passed in 2008 and my dad was moved to assisted living in Sept of 2023. My dad told me that in my mothers dresser was her wedding ring along with other jewelery items and to take them. My wife and I had no use for them and decided to bring them to the closest place to cash them in.We met Alex. He went through all the items and placed what he was going to keep in one pile and and put the rest back in the box that we brought in. What shocked us was he said the diamond was not real and completely worthless but yet he slid the ring into the pile he was going to keep. When he finished evaluating everything I asked him for the ring back seeing it was worthless. When we arrived back in Florida we went to Foshee Jewelers in Lakeland who has been around since 1953 and sat with Harry the gemologist with 36 years experience. He liked the ring and gave us a nice check. When I left I got into my car and called Alex from Buy Sell TRade in Peabody and told him what just happened. He said he never told me it was worthless and that he only said it was a lab created diamond. We hung up and I took the diamond back to the gemologist who put it on a machine. If it turns blue it is a natural diamond and if it turns red it is a lab created diamond. It turned blue. He then told me that Alex was a fraud and would have known this. That is why he tried to keep this worthless diamond. I called Alex back and told him I had pictures on the machine showing it was a natural diamond. He then replied that he didn’t have a machine and he couldn’t tell if a diamond was lab created or natural. I hope that nobody goes to this fraud. My phone # is 407-***-*** and I have pictures of what this crook tried to do.