Holsted Jewelers review: Unordered merchandise ( 3 comments)

Pretty much the same things everyone else who complains about them says. Being snared by their web offering a free ring for the cost of shipping and handling. Once they had our c-card number, they continued to send us unordered, unwanted jewelry items and charging them to our c-card without authoriation. We sent the items back to them with notes saying to cancel us out of their program. The latest is: today (08/09) we rec'd our c-card bill and there they are again (listed under HOM*GEN this time). They charged our credit card for diamond earrings on 08/01 - well before we even received the product which hasn't arrived at our door yet. Another thing they do is, after they send the unwanted item and charge your c-card for the jewelry plus shipping and handling - when they credit the returned item on your bill, they do NOT credit the shipping and handling charges. My next step is to report them to the Illinois BBB, the Federal Consumer Fraud Division, and to send a letter to the editor of their local Wood Dale Illinois newspaper and to contact the North American Fisherman magazine requesting they investigate the offers they include in their publication in the future.