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Wanted to share my pandora bracelets with you guys since you all posts such lovely pictures of your collections.
Besides from the bracelets and charms I also have a thing for the pandora rings. Love the ringuponring idea and love to stack the rings in different ways. ImageUploadedByPurseForum1421758277.445026.jpgImageUploadedByPurseForum1421758292.516190.jpgImageUploadedByPurseForum1421758304.425753.jpgImageUploadedByPurseForum1421758337.587995.jpgImageUploadedByPurseForum1421758366.654285.jpg
 
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Tabitha14 said:
I have just had a look at the Spring 2015 preview on Charms Addict and I have to say that I think the charms so far are mediocre. They are all so bling and the themes are naff. I don't know about anyone else but I am sick of flowers, hearts and butterflies with pave. These are so unoriginal. There are some okay charms in the hobbies collections but none I would actually buy! I don't want to offend anyone and I can see the appeal of some of the charms in the Disney collection, but would many adults wear a lot of disney theme charms on their bracelets? The dangle dolls are particularly awful. Oh dear, where are the classic two tone elegant and original charms. Is Pandora running out of ideas and just making every charm with pave bling? What do others on here think?
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Well Tabitha, I am with you on the recycling theme issue with Pandora charms. They are becoming very boring to me. I have only bought two charms in the last eight months, the Galaxy charm with clear cz and one Abstract charm with gold cz. I haven't attended any promotions where I can get a free bracelet; there is no incentive for me to buy more charms. The themes are repetitive, the cz overuse is annoying and cloying and the age bracket for their target audience is becoming lower and lower.


That's what I worry about since I know how fickle I was about fashion and style when I was in my early teens. I have 17 bracelets and I don't enjoy them as much as I used to because I feel like Pandora's star is ready to fade and I am worried that I have invested so much money and time in them over the last 8 years and their value will decrease. I hope they have a change of heart soon. I liked a lot of the older styles, not because I'm older but because they were interpretive not so in-your-face specific plus many had real gems in them not those bl00dy cz's. You could have a charm that represented a special event or time without it saying so on the charm which is why I prefer charms like the Galaxy charm.


I am also starting to resent the frequency of retiring charms. Pandora is not letting their customers build their bracelets thoughtfully but more out of desperation that they might get retired. It seems like a cash grab to me. In the last year I have bought other brands of jewelry and am happy with them. I wear them in combination with Pandora.


Well, that's the end of my rant. I don't mean to offend anyone who is still star struck by Pandora or new converts to the brand.
 
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fuzzymummy said:
Well Tabitha, I am with you on the recycling theme issue with Pandora charms. They are becoming very boring to me. I have only bought two charms in the last eight months, the Galaxy charm with clear cz and one Abstract charm with gold cz. I haven't attended any promotions where I can get a free bracelet; there is no incentive for me to buy more charms. The themes are repetitive, the cz overuse is annoying and cloying and the age bracket for their target audience is becoming lower and lower.


That's what I worry about since I know how fickle I was about fashion and style when I was in my early teens. I have 17 bracelets and I don't enjoy them as much as I used to because I feel like Pandora's star is ready to fade and I am worried that I have invested so much money and time in them over the last 8 years and their value will decrease. I hope they have a change of heart soon. I liked a lot of the older styles, not because I'm older but because they were interpretive not so in-your-face specific plus many had real gems in them not those bl00dy cz's. You could have a charm that represented a special event or time without it saying so on the charm which is why I prefer charms like the Galaxy charm.


I am also starting to resent the frequency of retiring charms. Pandora is not letting their customers build their bracelets thoughtfully but more out of desperation that they might get retired. It seems like a cash grab to me. In the last year I have bought other brands of jewelry and am happy with them. I wear them in combination with Pandora.


Well, that's the end of my rant. I don't mean to offend anyone who is still star struck by Pandora or new converts to the brand.
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I do agree with everything you say. I like some bling but not a bracelet full of pave charms. That is just too blingy and not elegant. There are lots of costume bracelets that are blingy and if a Pandora bracelet is full of bling it would just be like another blingy bracelet. I prefer the two tone charms and some cz charms but not a huge fan of pave. Some are nice but not a lot.
 
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I too like the older collections better. For starters, I don't like dangling charms, and there are more and more of those. Am I the only one who prefers the first letters (in two-tone), over the more recent triangle-shaped letters, over the newest hanging letters?

I agree with what was said regarding CZ. Although having a few might be nice, I'd rather have pink saphires or real diamonds.
 
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Melora24 said:
I too like the older collections better. For starters, I don't like dangling charms, and there are more and more of those. Am I the only one who prefers the first letters (in two-tone), over the more recent triangle-shaped letters, over the newest hanging letters?

I agree with what was said regarding CZ. Although having a few might be nice, I'd rather have pink saphires or real diamonds.
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I love the two tone letters! I did find one with my initial. I do not like the other ones at all!
 
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Melora24 said:
I too like the older collections better. For starters, I don't like dangling charms, and there are more and more of those. Am I the only one who prefers the first letters (in two-tone), over the more recent triangle-shaped letters, over the newest hanging letters?

I agree with what was said regarding CZ. Although having a few might be nice, I'd rather have pink saphires or real diamonds.
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Amen, sister!
 
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I've been thinking about the heart clasp bracelet and I like it a lot. I want one but don't want to start another bracelet. I do have spare charms but I feel like if I get a new bracelet, I want new charms too for it! How bad is that?! I think I will buy it at some point but not right now. I would love some white muranos on it with a few clear cz charms (not the pave ones), and some two tones and dangles. Maybe if my numbers come up in the lotto this weekend I can buy it all!!!! Haha!!: )
 
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Tabitha14 said:
I've been thinking about the heart clasp bracelet and I like it a lot. I want one but don't want to start another bracelet. I do have spare charms but I feel like if I get a new bracelet, I want new charms too for it! How bad is that?! I think I will buy it at some point but not right now. I would love some white muranos on it with a few clear cz charms (not the pave ones), and some two tones and dangles. Maybe if my numbers come up in the lotto this weekend I can buy it all!!!! Haha!!: )
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I wouldn't mind getting a couple of white Muranos to complement my new white Coach watch. It is a great watch for summer and a bracelet with white Muranos and a dash of gold would look lovely imo.
 
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