Trader Lou on August 29th, 2008

We recently announced our End of Month Giveaways and Clearance Sale. Unless you’re willing to cast your own silver molds and cut rough gemstones into brilliant facets, you won’t find a better deal on fine jewelry, gemstones and beads right now.

But did you catch that little bit of information that there’s no purchase necessary to enter the HUGE drawing?

Simply post a comment to the Trader Lou Community Blog for 5 drawing tickets. Even if you have never posted to a blog before…now is a great time for first timers. Take just a couple minutes and post a simple comment and you could get $500 in sterling silver jewelry!

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124 Responses to “FREE drawing for over $2,000 in Giveaways!”

  1. Love the deals! The pieces are beautiful. I buy them for presents and very often end up keeping them!!

    Janine

  2. Love your jewelry! Enter me in the drawing! Thanks…Renee

  3. I love to hear all about the latest trends from you. Thanks and please enter me in the drawing.

  4. The jewelry is beautiful and always a great deal! My friends and family are so happy I have found you. And I am too!

  5. Fantastic prices for superb sterling silver and gemstone jewellery. I am a many times return buyer.It is a pleasure just to look but nothing beats unpacking the parcels. Thank you.

  6. Great jewerly, tips and prices! Fast delivery as well as wonderful special offers and promotions!

  7. Find the articles on jewelry tips and trends very helpful. Also, love the “Smile” $1 promotions. Hope more will be forthcoming soon! Thanks.

  8. Excellent deals and nice merchandise! I love shopping here and hope to do more soon!!

  9. Love the uniqueness of the pieces you offer. Definitely fun to wear!

  10. I just wanted to let you guys know that I love your jewelry! I love the things I’ve bought from you and can’t hardly wait till I can buy more! I’m definately going to do some Christmas shopping here!

    Thanks!

  11. LOVE Trader Lou’s!!! The jewelry is high quality and beautiful.

  12. Am always getting great pieces, great prices and prompt delivery from you! Thank you. Enter me in your drawing, please.

  13. Beautiful Jewelry, amazing prices….what more could a girl ask???

  14. wonderful selection good pricing and excellent customer service
    Trader Lou is a threat to my budget—just adore all your jewelry

  15. adore your stuff

  16. CASSIMATIS DESPINA
    August 29th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    I love your jewelry and your prices are delightfull also !!!!Your Smile 1$ pack is really inbeatable. Please enter me in the drawing.

  17. I love Trader Lou’s vast variety of jewelry, something for everyone! Great gifts for friends and family and excellent prices, a perfect combination.

  18. I love your silver jewelry, they are unique,also love the jewelry tips,fast shipping,and promotions, you guys are the best !!!! I know I’ll be back for more.

  19. Trader Lou, pleased I found you. Everything is clear and neat, and the photos aren’t deceptive. What you see is what you get!

  20. dorothy commander
    August 29th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    Large selection of varied gemstones.
    Repeat customer.

  21. i love trader lou`s beautiful crafmanship,and the absolutely incredible prices.,i won`t be looking anywhere else for jewelry.and am so excited to have found you.

  22. I love your pieces – can’t wait to get some more for myself instead of just giving them as gifts. Thanks for letting me enter the drawing!

  23. I love the selection, the variety, the colors, I get so many ideas just looking at the stones-beads-gemstones and the prices are great!
    Thanks Trader Lou!

  24. What great selections and colors and not to mention the great prices!

  25. Always enjoy browsing your site, Trader Lou.
    Excited about the contest, too!
    *dreams of all the goodies I could buy with my winnings!*

  26. I am so glad I ordered from Gilbert and Frech and subscribed totheir newsletter. I just placed my second Trader Lou order and can’t wait to see it! I love gemstones and value and Trader Lou gives me both!

  27. The offers are awesome and the merchandise is tops! Please enter me in the contest!

  28. Living on Guam, shipping to and from is rough. HOWEVER, the times that I bought from you have not been filled with unwanted surprises, such as an item lost in shipping, or returned for unspecified reasons or some of the other excuses I have come accustomed to hearing from people, with you, it shipped, I got it, plain and simple.

  29. Hi-
    I’m new to Trader Lou’s but an so very impressed with the quality, selection and prices. Great job Y’all!

  30. Loving the life…Trader Lou’s makes it all possible. Affordable, on time and beautiful – what more could you want?
    Thanks a million.

  31. best prices on jewelry I want to wear everyday. can’t wait to tell my “snobish friends just how little I paid for the latest piece that they can’t find locally. keep going trader lou you rock !!!!!!!!!

  32. Great pieces at great prices. Love to look and to shop.

  33. I love your stuff and the prices are great! Love getting the e-mails to keep me up to date. Thanks.

  34. Really great prices on well made pieces of Jewelry.Keep on offering the great deals.

  35. It is very exciting to find beautiful jewelry at such affordable prices! Trader Lou is a must visit site. Cheryl

  36. Hi,

    This is my very first attempt to Blog. I know, I am way behind. I chose this venue because I am on Trader Lou’s email list. Listening in on the “Trader Lou Live!” webcast on Tuesdays I won two items! A Tiger Eye bracelet and a four strand 18″ Turquoise necklace. I love the Tiger Eye bracelet, and the four strand turquoise necklace is beautiful! I have been a Gilbert & Frech customer for a while, so I was interested in the new website.

    I think this website is great, beautiful jewelry and great prices! Their “Trader Lou Live!” webcast on Tuesdays is informative and a great way to learn more about the stones the Artisan’s use and about individual pieces of jewelry. In addition there is the opportunity to win a piece of jewelry! How great is that?

    If you haven’t tuned in to their webcast, mark it on your calendars, Trader Lou Live! Tuesdays 11am – 12pm EST. It is a worthwhile experience.

  37. I love the Trader Lou site and your shipping is so fast, I can’t believe it! My only complaint is that some of the photos are mis-matched with the type beads in the description, but I just send an email and let them know. Having been a Gilbert & Frech customer on EBay, I know the quality of the items is excellent. Good deal – too good for a bead addict!

  38. My jewelry from Trader Lou is so beautiful and original! My friends like it, too. I get lots of compliments.

  39. I love the findings and beads from Trader Lou. Most of them are beads I can’t find anywhere else and if i do find them somewhere else they cost a fortune. I have a peral ring that was a Trader lou/Gilbert & Frech item that my sister loved so much she borrowed it for her wedding. I love your products Trader Lou!

  40. I just Love all my jewelry from Trader Lou I have given some of my
    perious jewelry to my family members.i could’t wait till chrismas
    your prices our excellent great deals and with latest trends it is just beautiful jewelry plus your tips that you give us it is just brilliant thank you so much Trader Lou

  41. I have purchase several pieces and love all of them. I have even
    purchase Christmas gifts for my daughter. Evertime I wear a piece of
    the jewelry I receive compliments. I am so happy that I have found
    your website and will continue to purchase jewelry.

  42. I am a repeat buyer from Trader Lou and love the selection and variety. I have been pleasantly surprised at the attractiveness of the pieces and LOVE the low prices!

  43. Your deals are the best, Trader Lou!

  44. I love the green amethyst earrings I bought . . . the only problem is, they are HUGE. I finally took them off the ear wire and put them on silver chains. It gave me one pendant for me and one for my daughter.

    How cool is that?

  45. I love this website! Trader lou has so much good and helpful information! I am an amateur jewelry maker and the tips I learned about what German silver really is, has really opened my eyes. Now I know what kind of silver to buy and what to disregard. I also enjoy getting good tips on how to keep all of my jewelry clean.
    Not only do I get good information – all of the jewelry is beautiful. The craftsmanship is fantastic and the prices really beat the competition!

  46. I am a newbie, both to Trader Lou and posting to a blog. I think both may become habit forming.

  47. I started studying how this guy sold so much on Ebay and ended up buying from him — many times. Beautiful jewelry! Please enter me. I’d love to receive more.

  48. I read about the drawing, and would like to enter. But I have never written on any blog before. So, I am not sure if I am doing this right or not. But I am going to try and I hope it works. I sure would love some more lovely products by this company.

    Valerie

  49. Pick me as a winner please :)

  50. The Trader Lou site is so easy to navigate and has lovely items!
    Our favorite right now is the Mystic Topaz…
    Please include us in the free drawing!

  51. Recently found you through Twitter, and adore your things; can’t wait to place my first order! Nice giveaway (and wouldn’t THAT be fun!! *smile*) – thanks for the chance!

  52. Can’t get enough of that Trader Lou!! Keep coming back for more.

  53. I found you by accident looking to buy a ring on Ebay. I purchased and ring from Gilbert and Frech and when I received it I was so excited. Not only was beautiful it was very well made. I received an email from you and signed up for the Trader Lou Newsletter. I appreciate all your promotions and helpful tips. You jewelry is of very good quality and is very reasonably priced. It is so reasonably priced I tell everyone I meet about you and give them your email address. I even tell perfect strangers who are wearing similar jewelry about your sight. I just love natural stones and yours are beautiful. I always purchase jewelry like yours on my travels. Not any more. I come home and shop at your sight and get more for my money. It was my luck day when I found you. Your quality is excellent and I thank you.

  54. I found you by accident looking to buy a ring on Ebay. I purchased a ring from Gilbert and Frech and when I received it I was so excited. Not only was it beautiful it was very well made. I received an email from you and signed up for the Trader Lou Newsletter. I appreciate all your promotions and helpful tips. You jewelry is of very good quality and is very reasonably priced. It is so reasonably priced I tell everyone I meet about you and give them your email address. I even tell perfect strangers who are wearing similar jewelry about your sight. I just love natural stones and yours are beautiful. I always purchase jewelry like yours on my travels. Not any more. I come home and shop at your sight and get more for my money. It was my luck day when I found you. Your quality is excellent and I thank you.

  55. I found you by accident looking to buy a ring on Ebay. I purchased a ring from Gilbert and Frech and when I received it I was so excited. Not only was it beautiful it was very well made. I received an email from you and signed up for the Trader Lou Newsletter. I appreciate all your promotions and helpful tips. You jewelry is of very good quality and is very reasonably priced. It is so reasonably priced I tell everyone I meet about you and give them your email address. I even tell perfect strangers who are wearing similar jewelry about your sight. I just love natural stones and yours are beautiful. I always purchase jewelry like yours on my travels. Not any more. I come home and shop at your sight and get more for my money. It was my luck day when I found you. Your quality is excellent and I thank you.
    RoseMarie

  56. Hey, there! I was 1st time buyer last holidays, & now I am at it again, selecting pieces for gifts ! Will try 2 refrain from keeping them myself, until all gifts R purchased! Always have had a love for anything “craftsmen/women” made, & these show really nice crafting ! I love the unusual, natural stones, as well as the “glitters” ! Nice site for viewing…..dont forget 2 enter my in drawing. Judith Hall

  57. great pieces have ordered alot from both sites love it

  58. Alexandra Treadaway
    August 29th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    fairly new to unleashing my creativity, have found some wonderful pieces, am only now learning how to sell….after I have made 60 pieces-smile….I need the $500 to $2,000 give away for raw materials as I so enjoy what I find on your site!
    Thank you for keeping me in the loop and entering me in the drawing.
    Alexandra

  59. 8/29/30 My 78th birthday today or rather I am two 39s(=78)

    I will be selling the jewelry on my own website that I just discovered yesterday at Trader Lou’s site…. and I ordered a few pieces….. but those are not for sale! They are my birthday present to me!! I deserved them and i can’t wait to get them.

    Your jewelry is exciting, reasonable, and most of all RE-SALEABLE

    See you soon. Joy Cordes

  60. your sale items are very competative in my market and add great quality to my jewelry displays,keep the deals coming.

  61. I love the unique styles and great prices. Quality jewelry, with great prices and shipping!

  62. I found Trader Lou through ebay and made my first purchase. I did a little early Christmas shopping. I absolutely love jewelry & bargain prices and Trader Lou has both. I am totally hooked!

  63. I found Gilbert and Frech looking for quality, yet inexpensive jewelry on Ebay. I love their new site, Trader Lou’s where you can shop without the pressure of bidding wars. I am on a very limited fixed income, so I really appreciate knowing I have a source for high quality jewelry for myself or my loved ones that won’t break the bank.

  64. I’ve bought quite a lot of your good via Gilbert and Frech in ebay and then signed up for your newsletter. I enjoy collecting gemstone beads and making them into my own pieces, especially for other people. Great website and fantastic items!

  65. I have gone through the jewellery listings very carefully and I am most impressed with the range of stones offered and the quality of the silverwork. The free postage is a HUGE bonus as I live in Australia and the cost of postage on top of the item bought makes for a very expensive purchase. Thank you, Trader Lou, for taking the cost of postage out of the picture.

  66. Just let me roll naked in all your jewels!! I am in love!!!!!!!!!!!

  67. Let me roll naked in all your jewels!!! I am in love!!!

  68. I have bought a lot of pendants and beads because I make jewelry pieces to sell at “bare bones prices”; most of the time I give the pieces away because someone just doesn’t have the money to buy a piece they really like. And I believe that every one should have at least one beautiful piece of jewelry to wear and that is why Trader Lou and their parent company keeps getting my business, the pendants are stunning and the beads have been high quality for me to make beautful pieces to make someone a little happier when they wear my creations!

  69. I had been buying quite a bit of jewelry on Ebay through your other store and was so happy with the pricing and the quality that I would not hesitate to buy from you. I’ve had a pretty good response from re-selling a lot of it and I hope to be able to continue doing that.
    I’m very happy to have found your store and look forward to future business…thanks…Sandi

  70. So glad I found Gilbert & Frech on ebay & Trader Lou’s. My daughter and I have bought necklaces earrings and some gemstones and just love the pieces. We found one of a kind items at very affordable prices. I will continue to come back for ourselves as well as for gift giving. You have one happy customer here.

  71. Beautiful jewelry. I sell it to raise money for Crohn’s disease and everyone just loves it!

  72. I really love the original designs that Trader Lou has and I have introduced several people to this site. Keep making beautiful jewelry and keep up the great customer service!

  73. This is the best deal I have found on jewelry!! I have several pieces and they are great!!

  74. Hi All! LOVE TRADER LOU!!! Great deals and fabulous jewelry! Try them you won’t be disappointed! I have even gotten some of the ladies at work hooked on Trader Lou too! Can’t wait to find my next treasure! :D

  75. Beautiful jewelry, great prices, free shipping and great customer service. If you don’t like it just send it back and they will issue you a refund.

  76. Love the inexpensive prices on the sterling silver jewelry, I sell a quite a few pieces, and it is hard to let it go, because it is so beautiful. It’s sure is fun looking at the nice selection, thanks.

  77. I LOVE Trader Lou’s website and the deals are fantastic! I just wish I could afford to buy much more!
    Thank you Trader Lou!

  78. I recently recieved my first order and was amazed at the quality and size of the items! The mystic topaz’s are beautiful!!!!

  79. I love the pieces, they are great gifts but I usually end up keeping most of them. Too bad for my friends & my credit card but GREAT for Me!

  80. Trader Lou’s has finally offered my taste at prices I can afford. Thanks for the great continuing service! Look forward to future purchases!

  81. I am so thrilled at being able to offer my customers such quality pieces and excellent prices. It is a win win situation. Thank you so much for your excellent customer service and beautiful jewelry. I am hooked!!

  82. I’ve just recently found your website and LOVE the deals! My friends and I have had a very successful booth at a local Farmer’s Market this summer:)

  83. Some of the most beautifully crafted pieces I have seen. Just can’t stop shopping for more. Thank you for this wonderful website and the great customer service you provide.

  84. I have been purchasing your jewelry for awhile now. Wonderful craftmanship, gorgeous stones, so easy to sell. I feel good having a product that sells itself. All I have to do is wear your jewelry and I am selling it.

  85. I am waiting for sterling “OMEGA” chains! Can you get them? Do you have them?? We sooooooooooo want them! Please respond.

    I work at a flea market and my boss has a year round store there and wants quality jewelry. WE would buy from you in quantity. But we need quality chains. OMEGA and pendants. Your pendants and earring are superior. WE need OMEGA chains/necklaces. Please email me on this. The store is being remodeled and we need inventory.

    Thanks,
    Thanks and God Bless!

    Marcy Wood

  86. I just received three gifts from this website after purchasing a bunch of lovely gemstone pendants. Three gifts!! I was so enchanted and surprised. What a lovely thing to do. They are gorgeous – opal drop earrings, purple turquoise and gemstone pendant and a small antique-y silver and malachite pendant. I was just tickled pink. Thank you!

  87. I have received many pieces of jewelry and have to say I haven’t been disappointed yet. After looking at the rings that are being awarded as prizes…I think any of them would be a great prize to win. I think my favorite has to be the mystic topaz…can’t go wrong with that one.

  88. Sign me up! I have never shopped here but would love to find out what the quality is like.

  89. “Trader Lou” or your real name Gilbert & Frech, your items are usually poor quality. I can tell all these people here as I bought quite a lot at once. Now you’ve started buying and selling the items from SILVER_RUSH2000 don’t know if you’re all in one?

  90. i absolutly love your jewelry ,and it`s very affordable,i`m constantly looking for different and unique designes.you have both,thankyou so much.

  91. The quality is great, the variety is super and the prices can’t be beat. I will continue to be a Trader Lou customer indefinitely.

  92. Trader Lou has the best deals I’ve found on the internet for sterling silver and natural gemstone jewelry! Love the unique designs at affordable prices! Keep up the great work!

  93. I love this seller so much. Have received quite a lot of goods and i am always pleased with all items.

  94. Keep up the good work. Fun to get your e-mails, learn and save money.

  95. Your jewelry is nice quality and I like what I have seen!

  96. I love the qaulity of the jewery! I have bought a few pieces as an intended gift, but I have usually kept the items for myself. What can I say??? I love jewelry!!!

  97. I got my jewelry pieces last week and just love them. I got a compliment the 1st time I wore the mystic topaz pendant. It was my boss-a lawyer nd she asked where I got it and I gave heer the e-mail. She liked my ring also-mystic topaz. Please get more rutilated black quartz. I love those pieces in a size 9. Thanks,

  98. Thanks Trader Lou for a great site with lots of lovely pieces to choose from. The added bonus of free shipping is great.
    Just received my latest purchase a lovely pair of earrings and in the second package my free prize from your Sept. giveaway. Thanks so much, surprised and pleased to win.
    keep up the great deals
    Judy (Surrey BC. Canada)

  99. Hi,

    Just stumbled on your site and I was truly amazed at the reasonable prices! I purchased a ring, navy iolite, definitely a honker!!! You’ve
    made a new customer for life!

    Maria

  100. Since discovering TRADER LOU a few weeks ago, I have become completely obsessed with the site. Every week I receive anywhere from 4 to 6 new items, and every single one is better than the one before. I’m not sure how TRADER LOU does it, and frankly I don’t care, I’m just thrilled to pieces to be able to enjoy such fabulous pieces of jewelry and not pay an arm & a leg for them. And as if their prices were not low enough, in each package I receive I also get discount coupon codes for even more savings! I just purchased a sterling silver chain, the price was $5.85, used a $5.00 off coupon and got the chain for 85 cents! And if that wasn’t enough, they throw in free shipping and handling as well! I love that they offer rare gemstones, such as ‘bloodstone’ which I had never even heard of. Then they set these stones in beautiful, genuine .925 sterling silver. If you look carefully, you could tell that these pieces are hand-crafted around the gemstone, which gives the piece a lot of personality & authenticity. TRADER LOU has a customer for life in me. I have purchased so many items as christmas gifts, and I know that the people who will be receiving these pieces will appreciate the quality & superior craftsmanship as much as I do. Thank you TRADER LOU for coming into & becoming a part of my life. I’m saving a ton of money but I’m shopping more than ever! Oh, and don’t forget to enter me in the drawing!
    Sincerely,
    Margarita
    Yonkers, NY

  101. I love Trader Lou jewelry and wear it every day.

  102. Hi,
    Just recieved my order today WOW everything is beautiful. Far exceeded my expectations! I will be back again and again, and so will my friends!
    Joni

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  104. I love your product, but mostly I love your prices! The quality for the value is so great, and it really helps keep costs low for all of us retailers and jewelry maker who purchase from you.
    Keep up the good work!
    My favorite stones are those that shimmmer, like labradorite and moonstone.
    Kathy M.

  105. OK placed my first order with Handtrades.com, very next day I find Trader Lou. If the above had been in reverse, I would have saved myself approx. $24 on a $101 dollar order. Oh well, couldn’t help but place an additional order with Trader Lou! Think about all the money I’m saving ;)

  106. I just received my “smile” package and it was beautiful. I ordered two and got a pendant with matching earrings. I am very happy with my purchase. And you can’t beat the price!

  107. I love you guys! The quality is wonderful, website great and the prices you cannot beat! Love, love love the Smiley Packages ;~>

  108. I just received 3 pendants, a pair of earrings and a turquoise ring. For the price, I wasn’t expecting much. Boy, was I wrong, I love each and every piece. Gorgeous!

  109. Ivette Rivera From Puerto Rico

    The quality is wonderful, excelents prices and also the attention of the personal thats work for Trader Lou. I already gave the information to my friends. Thank you, my best wishes for you.
    And keep on with these good prices y pieces.

  110. Neldine Ludwigson
    May 28th, 2009 at 8:10 pm

    Wow, how does a person ever decide what they want to purchase? So many beautiful choices!

  111. just found this site and cannot believe the low prices and free shipping!! Wish I could win the lottery so I could but one of everything.

  112. Ivette Rivera of Puerto Rico

    I love Trader Lou. I have received a lots of goodies of Trader
    Lou and I am very pleased with all. Thanks Trader Lou for your
    good prices.

  113. I am very impressed with the beautiful selection of gems on this website. I am placing my first order and I can’t wait for my order to arrive. Thank you for the good prices Trader Lou.

  114. Ivette Rivera Of Puerto Rico

    Since a discovering Trader Lou a few weeks ago, I am in love with Trader Lou jewelry and web site and all course the prices. Good work Trader Lou people. Keep on.

  115. Trader Lou has a great, diverse inventory and excellent prices as well as fast shipping. I will always shop here first.

  116. I am greatly pleased with my Trader Lou purchase. The prices are great and the merchandise is awesome!!

  117. This is the first time I have ever used Blog. I think TRADERLOU is great – I am forever on the website and ordering.

    Thank you TraderLou!

  118. i LOve the Trader Lou website my thing is that when i got my ring it was ALOT smaller than what i saw in the pictures.. i wish they show 3 pics of the ring in its real size instead of exaggerating it

  119. Do rings that are on sale come in different sizes, and where can I specify the size wanted?
    Lola

  120. I just stumbled on to this fabulous site. I’m looking forward to receiving my first order. Cant Wait!!!!!!!

  121. This site is wonderful! I love sterling silver and the jewerly that is sold from Trader Lous is outstanding! Its well made and is exactly as discribed. I only have a couple of pieces but I will go back for alot more in the future! I just love the African Ruby ring my Husband got me for Christmas!

  122. I love the jewels baught from them. they’re are bold and beautiful. and the price is right. I wish they have more mystic topaz rings size 6 and bracelets size 6 and half.

    Marie

  123. I love everything I have ordered from Trader Lou! The things I gave for gifts were very good quality and great prices. Keep up the good work!

  124. I ordered my first piece of jewelry from traderlou.com
    I am so glad I found your site.
    I can not believe I found a hand made solid sterling
    silver ring with a huge aqua topaz for such a low
    price.
    I love love love the ring! It is so unique.
    Keep the offers coming :-)

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