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Limoges Jewelry is a personalized-jewelry retailer that sells name necklaces, initial pendants, birthstone and family rings, class rings, and engravable gifts, mostly in the $40-$320 range. It is not a new operation: the site is the online storefront of MBM Company, Inc., an Illinois business that describes itself as “the leading manufacturer of personalized jewelry” with more than 20 years of history, and business-directory records tied to its Chicago-area operations indicate roughly 27 years in operation. The company lists a headquarters address at 800 E Northwest Highway in Palatine, Illinois, a returns facility at 31 S. Mitchell Court in Addison, Illinois, and a phone number (847-375-1326). By the paperwork, this is a real, physical, long-established American company.
That is where the good news mostly ends, and it is why this review exists. A long operating history usually correlates with a decent reputation; Limoges Jewelry is the exception that shows the two can come apart. As of October 2026, its Trustpilot profile carries a 1.6 “Bad” TrustScore, its ResellerRatings page averages 1.68 stars across 73 reviews with 16.44% positive, and the Better Business Bureau assigns its Addison profile an F — partly because the company failed to respond to 3 of the 4 complaints on file. The complaints are not exotic: they describe orders that arrived very late or never shipped, plating that tarnished in weeks, and customer service that went quiet exactly when it was needed.
So the question this review answers is not “is Limoges Jewelry a scam?” — it is not, in the criminal sense. The question is whether a real company with published policies and a deep catalog is worth ordering from when the public record of how it treats customers skews this negative. Below is what it sells, what it charges as of October 2026, what the review platforms actually show, and how we score it.
Limoges is a personalization house, and the catalog is organized around occasions and relationships rather than materials.
Name and initial jewelry. This is the storefront’s core: cut-out name necklaces, bar and plaque necklaces, stacked-initial pendants, and trend-driven styles like balloon-letter and bubble-font pieces. The collection carried 928 name and initial necklace products as of October 2026, starting at a $44.99 stainless steel fancy script name necklace and a $49.99 vertical puzzle name necklace, with representative mid-range items including the Balloon Initial Necklace ($69.99), the Balloon Letters Name Necklace ($69.99), the Sterling Silver Stacked Initials Necklace ($119.99), and the Sterling Silver Engraved Modern Name Bar Necklace ($139.99). Matching categories cover name rings, initial bracelets, and anklets.
Birthstone and family jewelry. The largest single collection we counted was family birthstone rings — 164 products on the collection page as of October 2026 — spanning simple plated bands with simulated stones ($39.99-$79.99) up to sterling and gold-over-sterling rings holding two to seven birthstones with engraved family names ($119.99-$319.99). The same birthstone logic extends to necklaces, bracelets, and grandmother, sister, and dad lines, plus religious and memorial pieces.
Class rings. Limoges pitches itself as a budget alternative to the school-assembly class-ring giants, and its marketing still advertises more than 900 men’s and ladies’ designs from $99.99 to $2,199.99. The live catalog does not support that claim: the class-ring collection carried 208 products priced $169.99 to $649.99 as of October 2026, with all customization — school name, year, stone, engraving — included in the price. The production time is real either way: class rings are fully made to order and quoted at 7 to 10 weeks.
Bridal, men’s, and gifts. Wedding and promise rings anchor the bridal line, alongside men’s rings and chains and engravable gift items such as keychains.
Two catalog-wide observations matter more than any individual product. First, materials vary enormously and the price tells you the tier: solid sterling silver and gold-over-sterling at the top, silver-plated and platinum-plated base metal with simulated stones at the bottom. Second, nearly everything on the site is presented against a struck-through reference price with an automatic discount, but the percentage is not uniform — a $120.00 list price reduced to $69.99 is a 42% cut, not the flat 50% the older marketing implied. When a sale never ends, the sale price is simply the price, and it is fair to judge value on the $69.99 rather than the $120.00. We also noticed housekeeping lapses during research: the homepage carried unreplaced “Your product’s name” placeholder tiles as of October 2026, and some help pages were unreachable or returned 404 errors.
All prices below were taken from the Limoges Jewelry site in October 2026 and reflect the site’s automatic-discount (sale) prices, which in practice are the real prices.
| Product | Price (as of October 2026) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Stainless steel fancy script name necklace | $44.99 | Entry personalized name necklace tier |
| Vertical puzzle name necklace | $49.99 | Name-letter style |
| Balloon Initial Necklace | $69.99 (listed from $120.00) | Trend line; also a $69.99 Balloon Letters Name Necklace |
| Sterling Silver Stacked Initials Necklace | $119.99 (listed from $240.00) | Solid sterling tier |
| Sterling Silver Engraved Modern Name Bar Necklace | $139.99 (listed from $280.00) | Engraved bar style |
| Sisters Birthstone Heart Ring | $39.99 (listed from $80.00) | Bottom of the plated ring tier |
| Mother’s/Grandmother’s Birthstone Ring (plated styles) | $59.99-$69.99 | Simulated birthstones, plated base metal |
| Sterling Silver Square Birthstone Ring (2-5 stones) | $179.99 (listed from $360.00) | 14K gold over sterling versions $199.99 |
| Sterling Silver Family Marquise Birthstone Name Ring | $299.99 (listed from $600.00) | 18K gold over sterling version $319.99 |
| Class rings (208 products listed) | $169.99-$649.99 | Customization included; 7-10 week production |
| Clearance (50 items; 46 in stock) | $6.98-$79.98 | Engraved titanium, tungsten and stainless bands from $6.98 |
| Shipping (flat rate) | $4.99 under $50 / $6.99 $50-$74.99 / $7.99 over $75 | USPS first class, 4-12 business days after shipment |
| Express shipping | $9.99 USPS Priority / $17.99 UPS 2nd Day / $26.99 UPS Next Day | Speeds shipping only, not production |
Judged purely as stickers, these are aggressive prices for personalized jewelry — a fully customized class ring starting at $169.99, or a seven-stone sterling family ring under $300, undercuts most mall and school-vendor equivalents. Three qualifiers keep the value story honest. First, the permanent sale framing means the “original” prices are not meaningful reference points. Second, at the low end you are buying plated base metal with simulated stones, and the review record (below) suggests the plating is where quality complaints concentrate. Third, the true cost includes time: per-item production windows before shipment, a 4-12 business-day USPS leg, and no way to pay your way past manufacturing delays. There is no free-shipping tier at all as of October 2026 — every order pays at least $4.99 — and the company ships only within the US and Canada.
This is the section that decides the score, so we will be precise about sources. As of October 2026:
Netting that out is not difficult, because the platforms agree with each other to an unusual degree. The five major review venues where actual customers write reviews in their own words — Trustpilot, ResellerRatings, Birdeye, PissedConsumer, BBB — land between roughly 1 and 2.5 stars, and they describe the same three failure modes: slow or missing fulfillment, plated-jewelry durability problems, and customer service that does not answer. The complaints span years rather than clustering around one bad quarter, which points to how the business runs rather than a temporary stumble. What the record does not show is the signature of an outright fraud operation: many complaints end in a very late delivery or an eventual refund rather than outright theft, and the company has verifiable physical operations. This is the profile of a real company executing poorly, not a fake one.
Split the question in two, because the answers differ.
Is it a real business? Yes. Limoges Jewelry is the consumer brand of MBM Company, Inc., with directory records indicating roughly 27 years in operation, published Illinois addresses in Palatine (headquarters) and Addison (returns), a phone line, and long-running listings across Amazon, Groupon, and review platforms. Its policies are published: 30-day returns for refund or exchange (minus shipping charges, customer pays return postage), a stated 30-day lowest-price guarantee, and flat-rate shipping. Your payment goes through standard e-commerce processing, and nothing in our research suggested card-fraud or identity-theft risk. On the narrow question of “will my money go to a real company,” Limoges clears the bar.
Is it safe to actually order from? Here the record argues no, or at least not for anything that matters. The risk is not losing your card number — it is losing your occasion and your patience. The documented failure pattern runs: order placed against an optimistic-feeling checkout; a per-product manufacturing window (7-10 weeks on the class-ring product page and 8-10 weeks in the shipping policy, with reviewer accounts of month-plus waits); a USPS leg quoted at 4-12 business days; and, if anything goes wrong, a customer service function that the BBB record shows ignoring 3 of 4 formal complaints. The 30-day return policy reads fine on paper, but refunds are quoted at up to two billing statements for cards, exchanges take 3-4 more weeks to ship, and refund delays are themselves a recurring complaint. On product risk, be clear-eyed about materials: the sub-$80 pieces are plated base metal with simulated stones, and rapid plating wear is the single most common quality complaint. The sterling silver tier fares better in the record.
If you order despite all this, stack the deck: pay by credit card (never debit, so chargeback rights are strong), screenshot the product page and quoted production time at purchase, skip the plated tier in favor of sterling pieces, never order against a deadline, and calendar the 30-day return window and your card network’s dispute deadline so a stalled order does not silently run out the clock.
Limoges Jewelry earns a 2.4 out of 5 from LegitScout — a not-recommended score, and one the public record makes hard to argue with. The things the company gets right are real: it is a genuine, decades-old Illinois business rather than an anonymous drop-ship site, its personalized catalog is deep, and its sticker prices — $69.99 balloon-letter name necklaces, $44.99 entry name necklaces, family birthstone rings from $39.99, class rings from $169.99 with customization included as of October 2026 — undercut most of the category.
But a review site’s job is to weigh the evidence, and the evidence points one way. As of October 2026: an F from the Better Business Bureau with 3 of 4 complaints ignored, a 1.6 “Bad” score on Trustpilot, a 1.68 average across 73 ResellerRatings reviews with only 16.44% positive, a 2.2 on Birdeye across 50 reviews, and a 2.2 on PissedConsumer — all telling the same story of late or missing orders, fast-tarnishing plated jewelry, and customer service that goes quiet. Add the permanent sale pricing, the stale site content and broken help links, and made-to-order timelines that express shipping cannot shorten, and the low prices stop looking like a bargain and start looking like the discount you are paid to accept the risk.
If you want personalized jewelry with dependable fulfillment, this is a category with plenty of well-reviewed alternatives, and paying somewhat more for one is the rational trade. If you still choose the
Limoges Jewelry is a real company, not a fake storefront — it is the trade name of MBM Company, Inc., an Illinois personalized-jewelry business that says it has operated for over 20 years, with published addresses in Palatine and Addison, Illinois and a working phone number. But 'real' is not the same as 'recommended.' As of October 2026, its public reputation is broadly negative: an F rating from the Better Business Bureau (with the company failing to respond to 3 of 4 complaints on file), a 1.6 'Bad' TrustScore on Trustpilot, a 1.68-star average across 73 ResellerRatings reviews with 16.44% positive, a 2.2 on Birdeye across 50 reviews, and a 2.2 on PissedConsumer across 10 reviews, the most recent dated June 2023. Complaints center on late or missing orders, plating that tarnishes quickly, and unresponsive customer service. Your card details are not the main risk here — your time and your gift deadline are.
As of October 2026, the Better Business Bureau profile for Limoges Jewelry in Addison, Illinois shows an F rating and no BBB accreditation, with 4 complaints filed and a notation that the business failed to respond to 3 of them. Failure to answer complaints is one of the heaviest factors in BBB's grading, so the F reflects non-responsiveness as much as complaint volume. That matters because it matches what customer reviews on other platforms describe: slow or absent replies when orders are late, wrong, or broken. A company can carry a few complaints and still hold a decent grade if it engages with them — Limoges' grade indicates it largely has not.
As of October 2026, most of the catalog sits between $44.99 and $319.99 after the site's automatic discount. Examples from the Limoges catalog: a stainless steel fancy script name necklace at $44.99, a vertical puzzle name necklace at $49.99, the Balloon Initial Necklace and Balloon Letters Name Necklace at $69.99, the Sterling Silver Engraved Modern Name Bar Necklace at $139.99, the Sterling Silver Stacked Initials Necklace at $119.99, mother's and family birthstone rings from $39.99 (Sisters Birthstone Heart Ring) up to $319.99 (18K gold over sterling family marquise ring), and class rings from $169.99 to $649.99 across 208 products currently listed, with customization included. Note that prices are presented against a struck-through reference figure at varying percentages rather than a uniform half-off, so treat the sale price as the real price.
Longer than the checkout page feeling suggests. Per the company's own shipping page as of October 2026, standard non-personalized items get about 48 hours of processing, but personalized pieces each carry their own production timeframe before anything ships: balloon-letter name necklaces quote 4-6 weeks on the product page, and class rings are quoted at 7-10 weeks on the product page while the shipping policy still says 8-10 weeks. Once shipped, USPS first-class delivery is quoted at 4-12 business days. Express options ($9.99 USPS Priority, $17.99 UPS 2nd Day, $26.99 UPS Next Day) only speed the shipping leg — they do not accelerate manufacturing. Reviewers on Trustpilot and PissedConsumer frequently report orders taking a month or more, and some report tracking numbers that never progressed past 'label printed.' Do not order from Limoges for a fixed-date occasion.
On paper it is fairly standard: returns within 30 days of receipt for an exchange or a refund of the purchase total minus shipping charges, with the customer paying return shipping to the returns department at 31 S. Mitchell Court, Addison, IL 60101. Credit card refunds are quoted as appearing 'within 2 billing statements,' non-card refunds arrive by check within 30 days of the credit being issued, and replacement items on exchanges take 3-4 weeks to ship. The company also advertises a 30-day lowest-price guarantee. The caveat is execution: refund delays and unanswered service requests are among the most common complaints in the public review record as of October 2026, so budget patience — and use a credit card so you retain chargeback rights.
It depends on the piece, and the product name tells you. The catalog mixes solid sterling silver items, '14K gold over sterling' (gold-plated silver), '18K gold over sterling,' and lower-cost silver-plated, gold-plated, and platinum-plated base-metal pieces — the $39.99-$79.99 rings are generally in the plated tier. None of this is unusual for personalized jewelry at these prices, but calibrate expectations: plated finishes wear, and complaints about gold plating wearing off or stones clouding within weeks are a recurring theme in Limoges' Trustpilot reviews as of October 2026. If you buy anyway, the sterling silver pieces are the safer durability bet.