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We Ran the “Is This Shop a Scam?” Checklist on Ourselves

You found us through an ad, and you have no reason to trust us yet. Here is the checklist people use to judge a shop like ours, scored honestly - including the two we fail.

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If you have just landed here from an ad, you are being asked to send $100–$400 to a company you had never heard of five minutes ago. That is a completely reasonable thing to be suspicious about, and the honest response is not to tell you we are trustworthy. Every shop says that, and it reads the same whether it is true or not.

So here is the checklist people actually use when they warn each other about jewellery ads, with our own score against it. Two of the five go against us. They stay in, because a page that only lists what it passes is not worth reading.

1. Is there a real, named, registered company behind it?

Yes — and you can check it rather than take our word. The business is Maison Noctaura LLC, registration number 42-4033580, and the person responsible for what is published here is named on the site: Lee Kung. The full registered details are on our legal notice. A shop that intends to disappear does not publish a registration number, because a registration number is exactly what you use to find someone afterwards.

2. Are the policies published, or buried?

Published, and one of them is unflattering. We do not take change-of-mind returns. If a piece arrives damaged, faulty, or is not what you ordered, you have seven days from delivery and we replace it or refund it at our cost. If you simply do not like it, we do not take it back. That is a worse policy than most of our competitors offer and we would rather you read it here than discover it after you order.

3. Does it say where the goods actually come from?

Yes, before you order. Pieces are made after you order and dispatched directly by our production partner, some of them from overseas. That is why delivery is 5–8 business days in the US rather than two, and the making time sits inside that window rather than being added to it. The full windows are on the shipping page.

4. How long has it been trading?

We fail this one. We are new. This store opened in 2026 and has been selling for a matter of weeks. There is no way to dress that up, and if “established” is what you need, we do not have it yet. What we can tell you is that being new is a reason for you to be careful, not a reason to think the company is not real — and the checks in points 1 and 2 are the ones that separate those two things.

5. What do other buyers say about it?

We fail this one too, because nobody has said anything yet. Not a curated selection — nothing at all. We have not had enough orders for anyone to.

We are not going to manufacture that, pay for it, or write it ourselves. If you find a jewellery shop that opened a few weeks ago and already carries a wall of glowing praise, that combination deserves more suspicion than an empty space does. Ours will fill in slowly, or not at all, and either way it will have been earned.

What we can prove instead

Since we have no one else to vouch for us yet, here is what is checkable today.

The measurements are published in millimetres on every product page, and the stone diameter is listed separately from the overall width, so a photograph cannot flatter the size. We wrote a whole page on how big a carat actually is because that is the most common disappointment in this category.

The materials are stated plainly and never upgraded. Solid 925 sterling silver with a platinum finish, set with lab-created moissanite. We do not call moissanite something it is not, and we do not call sterling something it is not. The finish is a plating, plating wears, and our care page says so rather than pretending otherwise.

What arrives is described before you buy it. A drawer box with a ribbon, a velvet pouch, a polishing cloth and a card with the care instructions. No invoice and no price goes inside the parcel. Moissanite over a tenth of a carat also carries a GRA certificate for the stone, and each product page says whether that piece is one of them.

And there is a page listing what we do not know. Our guarantee page carries a ledger of every material claim we make, marked as verified, as stated by our production partner, or as not established — including one we deliberately leave open because nobody has told us the answer. We would rather be checked than believed.

The honest summary

Three of five, and the two we fail are the two that only time fixes. If that is not enough yet, that is a fair conclusion to reach, and we would rather you reached it here than after paying us.

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