Comments on: Meet me at the corner of 57th and 5th… https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Isabelle https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-79365 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:19:34 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-79365 I have long wanted a Tiffany engagement ring. I finally got my wish recently :-) Thanks for your article which confirmed our decision that a Tiffany ring was the way to go despite the hefty price. Considering the service we got and the lifetime warranty, we think it was worth it. Thanks again MM!

]]> By: Pecorino https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77886 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:35:14 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77886 It’s amazing that Tiffany fixed your ring in just 2 days. Cartier on 5th Avenue was going to take 3 months to fix a simple broken lock on my bracelet. I didn’t even bother to ask how much it was going to cost.

I finally took my bracelet to Rustan’s Makati where it was then sent to Cartier Hongkong. It still took two months to fix. (At least I wasn’t charged anything. The lock problem was due to product defect.) DUH! This really made me wonder what one is paying through the nose for. I own several non-branded bracelets and never had this type of quality defect with those. Btw, after a few months of use, the new lock on my Cartier bracelet was broken again… So much for luxury brands…

]]> By: Pecorino https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77871 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:50:38 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77871 Amazing that Tiffany fixed your ring in just 2 days. Cartier on 5th Avenue was going to take 3 months to fix a simple broken lock on my bracelet. I didn’t even bother to ask how much it was going to cost.

I finally took my bracelet to Rustan’s Makati where it was then sent to Cartier Hongkong. It still took two months to fix. (At least I wasn’t charged anything. The lock problem was due to product defect.) DUH! This really made me wonder what one is paying through the nose for. I own several non-branded bracelets and never had this type of quality defect with those. Btw, after a few months of use, the new lock on my Cartier bracelet was broken again… So much for luxury brands…

]]> By: Ebba Myra https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77579 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:33:28 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77579 My sister gave me a LV bag which I thought “ugly” and I personally did not care much for designers anyway (and honestly at that time I did not know what the initials stands for). So I had it in my closet for almost 2 years till my teenage daughter asked me if I really have an LV bag and I said yes, and she jumped into my junk in the closet. Shrieking, she informed me that she will be using it for school – well, I still didn’t know then what the big hoopla was. F.Y.I. lst year, I ended up selling that bag in Ebay getting a pretty good sum of money considering its almost a 5 years old bag. (used only 3 times

]]> By: maddie https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77550 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:54:28 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77550 hmmmmm. maybe the retailers here should come up with some ads telling tourists about buying fakes and what can happen upon reaching their shores.

on a personal note…i envy you to the nth power! New York is just my fave city of all time. And I never miss going inside that Tiffany store every time I’m there. Not that I purchase anything when I’m there.

]]> By: Maria Clara https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77522 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:46:37 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77522 5th Avenue in New York is the trendiest place to shop or browse around – all the big name fashion designers and department stores are there like Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California but more selection and home of the real thing not knock off!

]]> By: Joanne https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77492 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:14:18 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77492 I have been surprised too at the sheer increase in the number of people toting real LV in Manila when I come home. I think the brand’s increasing popularity among folks who have the cash or the credit limit to buy their stuff increased with the opening of the luxury brand’s store in Manila. It makes it easy for many to gun for an LV na kasi its available locally already.

]]> By: carina https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77486 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:38:46 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77486 oh, i felt a tinge of sadness when i saw the rings…:(

]]> By: ej https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77475 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:10:09 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77475 whoa, 50%… i should get married now lest the price goes up and i can’t afford to have a tiffany’s ring. or if not i can just get the rings now even if i don’t know my future husband’s size (or who i’m gonna marry for that matter), hehe… but since they are resizeable… hrmmm…
i hope you had a great time in ny. it’s really cold now and i think we’re expecting some snow, glad you came back safely to sunny manila.
i can’t wait for your food posts!

]]> By: Marketman https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77472 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:53:11 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-57th-and-5th#comment-77472 lee, Luis Buttones…hahaha. I’m with you, I have two cacha marketmanila totes with me most of the time when shopping. And to those that are wondering, I have never purchased a LV bag… and for the more curious, the monogrammed line (the classic one) is made of laminated canvas, not leather, and it is only the trim that is made from leather… hence its durability and relative indestructibility… but folks have their own preferences for any myriad of reasons…so, to each their own…

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