Naghi’s

On April 13 stopped in to look at the estate jewelry and found just what we were looking for. Jeff (the owner?) was very helpful, cut us a good deal on a diamond ring, found a matching wedding band and sent photos and cut another deal, and we trusted him to have the rings resized and mailed up to us in Wisconsin. We received them just as promised and were very satisfied. Thanks Jeff!

BEWARE!!!
Right-​hand ring to celebrate my second retirement, from New Orleans so there would be even more joy and significance.
Purchased on Saturday, resized ring promised for Monday.
After FIVE visits and a laundry list of excuses (broken hip, out of silver, marcasites popped out when stretching [if stretched to size, why did they need silver?]), I made my FIFTH visit to inquire about the ring, which was supposed to be ready at 5 the evening before, then at 11 am was supposed to be ready in an hour, but wasn’t.
I was no longer confident of the ring’s quality after such a runaround (and popped out marcasites), so I asked for a refund: «We don’t do no refunds.»
I finally was able to pick up the ring the next hour. I wish I’d taken a picture of the ring before it went off for sizing, some of the marcasites are black, and there are more black ones on one side than the other.
Apologies? No, not really. Instead sob stories of how much resizing cost them.
It will be a long time before I forget this sleazy experience!

We walked by naghi’s but this gorgeous chess board in the window caught our eyes. We wandered in and although we were a) obviously tourists and b) presumably don’t have the financial resources to buy anything in the store, the clerk on duty hung up his phone, greeted us warmly, recommended things for us to do, pointed out that tourist dollars like ours were how NOLA was able to rebound after Katrina as quickly as it did. It was a pleasurable interaction and made me want to go back there if I’m ever in the market for some antiques. I don’t know whether he was an owner or not, but the time he took with us, even though we weren’t paying customers, showed that he cared about the store and about his patrons.