Re: Jewelery in Karachi
My experience with the Chhotani's branch at the Forum wasn't exactly good. We bought my bhaabi's set from them last year and they tried to rip us off!
We basically reserved the set and initially we put a small deposit towards the balance so that they could keep it aside for us. This was just a few days before we were flying back to London. We specifically agreed that we would pay the remaining balance in 3 months when we returned to Pakistan. They said we could do this by sending 3 monthly installments to them or to pay one lump sum on collection.
Knowing gold prices fluctuate, we got them to agree the final price for the set at the time we placed the deposit. They said the remaining balance wouldn't change as long as we paid it off in those 3 months.
OK, so we get to pakistan 3 months later with the remaing sum and they go 'Oh, you'll need to pay 40,000 rps extra' for the set. They came up with some silly story that the set they had shown us was for someone else and that they had to make a replica set, for which they had to purchase more gold at a higher price. Well we went all guns blazin with some family who were locals and had to force them to hand it over and they did!