Pandora

The sales women was really helpful. Prices are reasonable. Big selection to chose from

I visited this store today, it was really sucks actually. The manager and the sales all are mean! Every pandora offer free cleaning services in U.S., but their machine is just off. Who knows what happened.
I will never return to this store again.

Love Pandora the girls are great. Leah is the best very helpful and knowledgeable about everything in there. She helped me put together and bracelet for a friend. My friend loved it. I was sad to hear that Leah no longer worked for the company. But all the girls seemed great in there so I can’t wait to go back and put together a bracelet for myself.

Awesome customer service! I came in to get a present for my mom for Mother’s Day and the girls working there were incredibly helpful! Shelby, in particular, was so sweet and stayed with me the entire time despite the clutter of people browsing the store! Definitely 5 stars!

500^th Unilocal REVIEW!
I haven’t been writing as many reviews as usual over the past few months, so I tried to think back over stores or restaurants I’d meant to review but put off. To mark this momentous occasion (well, as momentous an occasion as anything which brings with it no money or tangible reward), I decided to write a review of a store I love and visited on my first trip to the «new» Santa Monica Place.
The Santa Barbara Pandora in Paseo Nuevo closed a few months ago. The surprise isn’t that it closed, but that it hung on as long as it did in that enormous space with astronomical commercial rent. I was out of town when it happened, though, so it was a shock to go in for a polishing cloth and find the store vacant.
That I refer to the Santa Monica Place as «new» is only slightly less amusing than my recent reference to the Westfield Century City mall as «new.» But I’m 42 and and remember not only the old Santa Monica Place but the Santa Monica Mall pre-​Third Street Promenade, which was just a few blocks from my elementary school.
I’m not sure when Bloomingdale’s became the anchor of the Santa Monica Place, but it has to have been in the mid 2000s. I mostly shop secondhand, so I have no reason to go to a retail mall, even if it’s outdoor and upscale, unless there is a movie theater. I’m told a few screens are going in soon, which is nice because the beloved Laemmle is currently closed (formerly Monica 1 2 3), where I saw almost every foreign film and documentary as a teen and young adult.
This Pandora is tiny. It reminded me of the Westport, CT location, which is more like someone’s small living room in a one-​bedroom apartment than a store. The service is typically excellent. Women who work at Pandora love and wear the jewelry and if your only association with Pandora is charm bracelets, you need to go in and see all their new (and more expensive lines).
The yellow gold line is substantial and elegant, but the bracelet starts at 1500 and with charms at a couple hundred apiece, it is in no sense «costume.» Pandora introduced a a new bracelet line a year or so ago, which slightly less money than the original. It has smaller charms which are both delicate and different enough from the first line to justify starting a second charm collection.
My boyfriend has been buying me earrings and pendants from Pandora for four years. I love mixing Pandora with pieces from Diamond Nexus (simulants and synthetics in white gold which cannot be distinguished from mined diamonds except with goggles).
They have some new earring hooks as well. I went in for cloths and came out with a new pair of hooks with a tiny stone for just 15 dollars.
Next to the store is a big sign for Uni Glo, a line of clothing I’d never heard of until my friend’s 7-​year-​old model son did a shoot for them. I showed the ladies pictures and they positively gasped (he’s a beautiful boy who just finished his first big show: the Radio City Rockettes Christmas Spectacular).
The bracelet was filthy so I hung out for 20 or 30 minutes. The women were bright, articulate and professional. A pleasure to talk to, just like the gals working at Santa Barbara. But one had a British accent and a Cartier watch. My guess is that she won’t be there long.
As for the mall, I never bothered to look up pictures online and was stunned by how classy and tasteful it is. I’m not anti-​development when it comes to housing, and I’m certainly not one of those low-​growth freaks obsessed with height requirements and zoning regulations which put butterflies ahead of human beings (this describes the SB powers that be). But I also hate to see my childhood home destroyed by new development that annihilates all character.
I don’t know who built the Santa Monica Place but I wish they were in charge of the future destruction of Pacific Palisades, instead of the evil billionaire Rick Caruso. I don’t see why anything drastic must be done to the Palisades, but if something must change, it would be nice to have people with taste and judgment. Rick Caruso only has taste when it comes to his Brentwood mansion or when he thinks it profitable (Glendale’s Americana was a success but as I’ve written before, it was Glendale and could only improve.).
EDIT: I just realized that my Chucks review was an update and that this is my 499^th review! Stay tuned for 500.

Super busy when we came in on Saturday afternoon. They had probably around 6 or 7 employees, and I think there’s only one main register, so they had to pile against each other to get to the main register (which is also a terminal for them to get on the internet and let customers see other designs/​options).
Regardless, we walked in, was noticed fairly quickly, and the young lady helped us out. The bf bought for me one of the fairy tale carriage charms and the jewelry box. Typically, each charm is around $ 50 – 65, but, because the carriage had 14k gold and a pearl, it got hiked to $ 90, which we bawked for a little bit. I mean, it’s a pretty charm, and it will have sentimental meaning to us, but, yikes…$ 90? He also got me a nice jewelry Pandora-​ized box that has compartments for the bracelets and small charms, which was $ 50.
Overall, may be back, as it’s a store that is catering strictly to Pandora items. You can probably also find Ben Bridges that would sell the Pandora items, but it’s so much harder to grab their attention in those stores because Pandora charms seem like small money to them when they can sell Tag Heuer watches and Rolexes. This Pandora is a bit far from where we live, so it won’t be something that we’ll purposely drive to.