Sartor Hamann Jewelers — Local services in Lincoln

Don’t even consider looking here unless you’d like to feel the consequences for the rest of your life...

I know - a little dramatic. But I felt compelled to write this review after a few years of looking at the effect that simply shopping here had on my credit score. Let me explain...

I shopped at Sartor Hamann for an engagement ring 2+ years ago and thought nothing of it. A salesperson found me and did their job in trying to find me a ring that suited my needs. After a few rounds of telling them that I was “just browsing,” they asked me if I wanted to know how much I could be “pre-approved” for. Out of curiosity, I did want to know how much credit I might be able to afford, so I gave my consent to show me this number. They put the number in front of me, and I was thankful for the information — but told them I wasn’t interested in doing business at the time and I’d be back if I decided I’d like to buy.

Eventually, I chose to buy the engagement ring elsewhere and, soon after, became happily married! Hooray! But something kept coming up on my credit score as a young account with a $0 balance. For a while, I couldn’t figure out where it came from...

The “account” was with Wells Fargo, right around the time of the height of them opening accounts without the knowledge of their customers. I assumed I had unknowingly been involved with this scam and filled out the form to have my account wiped from the record — hoping my credit score would no longer be negatively affected by this young account that I didn’t choose to open.

Eventually, Wells Fargo got back to me. And, to my surprise, they claimed that they had legally opened this account for me at the request of Sartor Hamann and that there was nothing that could be done. They even included a PDF with my signature on the very simple “pre-approval” form that I had filled out — without ever making a purchase or asking them to open a credit account for me. I closed the account immediately and, at the time, I only scoffed at the shady business tactics of Sartor Hamann (assuming that Wells Fargo didn’t blatantly lie to me.)

More than two years later, I write this post because that $0, very young, account still brings down my credit score. It’s the only real blemish that I have on my score. And it’s all due to the shady business tactics of Sartor Hamann. I don’t assume they’ll want anything to do with making this right, but if they did, they’d be willing to reach out to Wells Fargo on my behalf to remove this never-opened account from my record. Until then, I would STRONGLY recommend that anyone looking for an engagement ring — or anything in general — shop elsewhere.

Hope this is helpful to someone — happy to answer...

I received a ring from my mom as a present. We don’t have a lot of money, so the ring was real special to me. I knew I was around a size 8 or 9, but the salesperson insisted I was a 7 1/4. Obviously when I got my ring, it was way too tight and it scarred my finger after a few days. The gentlemen sized me again and said I was a 8 1/2. When I got this back a second time, the band cracked after being stretched so thinly. (The band was originally very delicate.) I took it back and when they resized my finger, they told me I was actually a size 9. The same process occurred and I got my ring back. I only wore the ring once a week because of how fragile it seemed. When I got home, I realized it had looked like an entire section of the band had broken off. After I took it back to the store, a lady told me that I should size it at a 9 1/4, but she didn’t have anything I could fit on my finger to size it. She said it would cost $98 to resize and basically told me “We’ll just wing the size this time and see.” Not only that, but she suggested I buy another ring to make my original band thicker. Like I said, I don’t have much money to spend on jewelry anyways... This was supposed to be a...

My now-fiance and I visited the Southpointe Sartor Hamann location during the summer of 2015. This was our first time looking at engagement rings, and we didn't know much about jewelry in general. A sales associate named Nancy helped us during our visit. Nancy asked me questions about what type of bands I liked/didn't like. Even though I had a very clear idea of what I wanted, Nancy continued to try to get me to try on styles that I had stated that I didn't care for. Eventually we sat down in an office to discuss diamonds. Before I had expressed any type of preference for what carat or quality of diamond I was hoping for, Nancy made the statement, "Now you won't be able to get a carat for less than $6000." I took this statement to be incredibly rude and presumptuous, and this sentence was the reason that we both got in the car that day and decided to take our business to another...