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In March 2017, a May 2016 ConservativeTribune.com post about Kay Jewelers' purported propensity for surreptitiously swapping diamonds out with fakes began recirculating on social media: The article consisted mostly of information pulled from a May 2016 report from BuzzFeed about claims from some customers that jewelry sent for repair or cleaning at Kay Jewelers was returned without the original gems: In June 2016, Bloomberg published a statement issued by Kay Jewelers' parent company, Signet, objecting to the complaints: It does not appear that a larger number of customers ever stepped forward with subsequent similar claims. Conservative Tribune's report implied that anyone with a Kay Jewelers diamond was at risk of being fleeced, but we could not find any evidence that the claims go far beyond the original report. Although BuzzFeed identified at least eight customers who claimed that Kay Jewelers had switched out their gems for stones of inferior quality, we were unable to substantiate that the incidents transpired as described, nor could we track down any information suggesting that the incidents, if accurate, were widespread.
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