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Article: DISAPPOINTED COUPLE WANT REFUND ON RING BOUGHT IN MEXICO
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 19, 1999
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At a stop in Cozumel on a Caribbean cruise last month, Michael and
Nancy Greco paid $2,400 for a tanzanite and diamond ring that their
Mexican jeweler appraised at $6,530.
It was a tremendous bargain, and normally the type of savings that
would make the couple from southeastern Massachusetts wonder whether
something was amiss. But the Grecos had been reassured by
representatives of their cruise line, Celebrity Cruises, a division
of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., that everything was on the up and
up.
In fact, the Grecos say cruise line representatives gave a lecture
before the ship docked at the island off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula,
telling guests that they would be able to buy jewelry for ...