Just a beads store? What can we say? Sometimes customers ask the most pointed questions.

For some reason the words “bead store” conjure up something from the 60′s laced with incense and other mystical items. People think of crafts and hobby stores and kids parties with 20 screaming six year olds.

The Beadcage, Inc. sells beads, but we are nothing like the beads stores you may be thinking of. Also, we are not just a beads store. We cater to designers and artists. We carry Swarovski Crystal. We have been called the “Neiman Marcus of beads stores”. Our customers have included Miss Georgia for the design of her pageant jewelry as well as other pageant participants. We are recognized as “The Place” to get custom designed wedding jewlery. We regularly design for weddings proms and special occasions.

We are a center for education and bead design here in Columbus, GA. We are well known across the world as the store that sponsors “The Southern Bead Retreat“. This is the ultimate luxury beading retreat featuring the top artist in the beading community.

Once you enter the store, you will see we are not just beads. Half of our store is upscale unique gifts and jewelry. We are a shopping haven for those that want something unique and special. From the latest designs in fashionable shoes, to European Charms, to Lampe Berger, to fine Pashmina wools we provide a wide gamut of choices for everyone.

We cater to those customers that also shop at Talbot’s and Chicos located right next door. With accessories to fit these styles and a great line of shoes we are a perfect next stop when shopping at these places. Our jewelry design and repair expertise are often used to enhance jewelry or change earrings from posts to clips. Our designers can match anything with a custom designed piece for sometimes much less than you could buy a pre-made piece. We make it possible for you to buy any piece of clothing as we can always match it with our jewelry.

So to answer the question,”We are not just a beads store and our beads store is unlike anything you could ever imagine.”

Sometimes we must fight for a product. However, over time, The Beadcage has built a reputation with manufacturers that we are dedicated retailers. Manufacturers actually want us to carry their products as their sole retailer in the area.

When we commit to a product, we take it seriously. Before we bring a product into our store, we carefully research the product. We only want great products and products that will be successful. We may start off testing the water with a product buying into a small amount of their most popular items. If we find the product a match for the store, we will typically commit to the entire line. Manufacturers like this and customers like this. It is a win for everyone.

Just look at our core products. We have an amazing selection of Lampe Berger including lampes and fragrance. Our product representative from Lampe Berger said we have the greatest selection she has ever seen. When you come to buy Lampe Berger you are buying from the biggest and best retailer of the product. There are only a couple other retailers in the country that can match our selection and service. In addition we also carry most of the line of Lampe Avenue lampes and all of their fragrance. We are also licensed by the government to ship the Lampe Fuel within the US.

For jewelry, we carry the entire line of Trollbeads. We carry the entire line of Chamilia. We carry the entire line of Kameleon. We can get the entire line of John Medeiros, and have nearly all of his product on hand. We are usually fully stocked and our sales people understand buy and wear these lines.

We just obtained one of the most well known luxury lines of bath and body, The Thymes. Have only had the line for a little over a month and now carry their full line of products. We have committed to purchasing the Frazier Fur line for the upcoming Holiday Season. This is a tremendously popular product and as the sole retailer in our area we have committed to a sizable stock in order to not run out.

When a customer comes to our store, we want to have the best product lines and have the exact item they want.

Pandora vs. Chamilia. Chamilia wins hands down. The Beadcage at one time Pandora and we were the 6th retailer in the United States to carry this product. The product was nice, but there were several things that just were not as good as the Chamilia line. Also, the company was terrible to deal with. We often went weeks of months with back ordered product from the company. They micromanaged our store and really did not understand our market. It got to the point where we were unhappy and our customers were unhappy with the brand and we decided to drop it.

Our decision to drop Pandora was a great one. The brand continues a downward spiral. It is now found in discount mall jewelers and the few remaining original retailers still cannot get product to their customers.

Chamilia has a better design in our opinion as far as the bracelets are concerned. The absence of two screws in the middle of the bracelet makes Chamilia the best choice in bracelets. Many of the the silver beads are similar, but Chamilia is an American company and has so many more silver beads that are relevant to our way of life. The are the only company of this kind licensed to sell Walt Disney charms. Overall, we feel Chamilia has a better selection of beads. Also, Chamilia’s glass beads are head over heels superior to Pandora’s glass in our opinion. The glass beads are made in Atlanta Georgia using glass purchased from Murano, Italy. Our customers prefer the Chamilia beads and glass beads to Pandora too.

We have converted most of our old Pandora customers to Chamilia and or Trollbeads and our customer base and sales have more than doubled since switching to Chamilia. Chamilia appears to be a more coveted or more preferred line by more of our upscale customers.. Customers also prefer to buy from us. Because we sell Chamilia, they know we carry the best and usually choose the lines we carry. We have more years experience in selling this type of jewelery than just about anyone else in the country. We understand quality and which lines are the best.

To sum things up, Chamilia wins in status, design, quality, beauty, customer service and it is an American company. Pandora has better commercials and can be found, if in stock, at mall discount jewelers.