Poor Quality... Extremely Disappointed!

My father is a Mets fan, so I thought that the Shea Stadium seat cufflinks would be a unique Christmas gift that he would really love. I ordered them rather last-minute as a Christmas...Read complete review

My father is a Mets fan, so I thought that the Shea Stadium seat cufflinks would be a unique Christmas gift that he would really love. I ordered them rather last-minute as a Christmas gift, but they arrived in time.

I was very nervous upon opening the cufflinks, because not all of the reviews I had read about this product were positive, but I took the chance because I thought that if they turned out to be well-made, he would really love them.

Unfortunately, I was not one of the lucky customers who received one of the more decent pairs of these cufflinks. They were absolutely horrible. When I opened them, I immediately noticed that there were a couple of markings on the silver setting- both cufflinks had what appeared to be a rust/brown-colored line on the side of the silver setting. On top of that, the square pieces of the stadium seat were not even set properly in the silver backing. On one of the cufflinks, the square of the seat was obviously protruding above the silver setting. Although I was embarrassed, I gave them to my father because they were the only gift I had bought for him- I promised him I was going to send them back and get them replaced with what I hoped would be a better pair.

I am very angry to report that the replacement pair was not all that much better than the first pair. There were no markings on the silver setting, but the pieces of seat were still not set in the silver backing very well. For the price of this item, I would expect a MUCH better quality of craftsmanship! On both cufflinks, the pieces of seat were not set properly in the silver backing (which, in my opinion, would mean that the corners of the piece of seat are not sticking up past the silver border, and all corners of the square should be flush with the silver setting). Instead, you could obviously tell that the piece of seat was set in the backing crookedly, so that some corners were below the top of the silver setting while others protruded.

I am too embarrassed to give this poorly-made gift to my father, so now I will have to figure out something different to give him instead. For the cost of this item, the craftsmanship should be of a MUCH higher quality. I highly recommend that UncommonGoods remove this item from their catalog so that no other customers need to have such a disappointing/embarrassing gift-giving experience as I did.