Not To Be Trusted With Knives

The saga of my Irish marble ring

December 28, 2015 by Beth

When I was in Ireland, I bought myself a Connemara marble ring, which I love and wear most days. One day back in August ((Holy cow, I can’t believe that was all the way back in August!)), I looked down at my ring and noticed that a chunk of the marble was missing:

I knew I’d bought it at the Connemara Marble store that we’d stopped at on our bus tour, so I Googled “Connemara Marble” and sent an email to the email address I’d found on connemaramarble.com. And then I received a terse email saying that it wasn’t one of their rings and I should contact the store where I bought the ring. Which confused me, because I was *sure* I’d bought the ring at a store called “Connemara Marble” and so I was trying to email the store where I’d bought it! Turns out that connemaramarble.com is actually a website for a company that’s not called Connemara Marble at all (but they sell some stuff made with Connemara marble).

After some detective work, including searching through the photos we’d all taken, my Mom was able to find the place I bought it, which is called the “Connemara Marble Visitor Centre” and has the URL http://connemaramarble.ie/. So I emailed those guys and they were super friendly and said “Mail it to us and we’ll fix it for free and send it right back to you!”  And they did:

Thanks Connemara Marble Visitor Centre!

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