Hey guys, just wanted to leave a quick review of my in-person experience with Heavy-Nebula / Shib. 

TL;DR: very positive experience, met him in person and got a cool piece adjusted to my wrist size. Gold tested on the spot for 18k.

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Full review. 

Just to make it easier to follow, I'm dividing it into a few topics.

**1. Meeting-up in person**  
I'm based in Dubai and I wanted to meet the seller in person to try on a few pieces and do the gold testing in person. We met in Dubai "Gold Souk", which is a district here in Dubai full of gold / jewelry shops as the name suggests. He brought maybe 8-10 different pieces (JUC, Love, VCA, Tiffany Hardwear) based on what I had asked and I ended up choosing the VCA in Onyx as my first piece.

**2. Bracelet adjusment**  
My wrist is large so I needed 2 extra links for my size (\~20 cm). Shib doesn't have an open to the public shop (for obvious reasons) but he has an office nearby. His team did the modification in \~1.5h and brought it back. This was quite nice because I had an appointment later on the day and I couldn't stay for long.

**3. Gold testing**  
As all of you, I'm fairly skeptical when buying gold and I wanted to test the piece before buying it of course. Even though living in the same city gives me some peace of mind, I still wanted to test the gold since this was my first time doing business with him. We went to a shop nearby which had an XRF machine and we did the testing, which turned out 18k gold as promised. Funny enough, I was wearing a gold plated chain that I got as a gift some years back and I had always been curious to test it to know if it was real gold. The shop staff was kind enough to let me test it and turns it out it was it did have some gold, but very few amounts as I was expecting.

**4. Payment**  
Shib had a few VCAs already in stock (from the black friday promo) but I needed an adjustment as I said. I paid a small amount upfront (\~150 USD) so he could start working on the piece. After I got it back and tested it, I paid the remaining amount (\~850 USD), totalling \~1000 USD for the piece (black friday promo + adjustment).

**5. Overall experience**  
Purchase was positive, seller was attentive and friendly and was able to quickly execute the adjusment I needed. I'm happy with the piece I got and we are still in contact as I might get another piece from him (Tiffany Hardwear).

**6. Disclaimer**  
Obviously use this anedoctally as I cannot vouch for anything he sells, I'm just describing my own experience. As always, do your due dilligence and check whatever detailes needed before any purchases (with him and all other sellers for that matter).

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That's it guys, I'm not getting anything in return from this, just wanted to share my experience as I was able to meet the seller in person. I still haven't decided if I will buy the Tiffany Hardwear from him, but I will post another review if I do.

I will try to answer a few comments / DMs if possible. Hope it helps!

VCA Gold / Onyx Revivew | In-person pick-up in DXB (Heavy-Nebula / Shib)