"If you want to know the best way to get the local jewelry community angry at the mere mention of your name and business, you should try hiring and inexplicably firing more than a dozen of its members within a 12-month span – then skipping town without paying customers for contracted consignments. That's the plan allegedly enacted by Charles Hart Bengyak, a nomadic jeweler who hightailed it out of Austin earlier this year, after reportedly falling into a significant amount of debt and failing to pay at least one woman, South Austin resident Karen Kreps, $6,500 for a ruby-and-diamond ring he sold on consignment from his Heirloom Jewelry and Coins business on Burnet Road." -- "Heirloom Wisdom: Go on, take the money and run" BY Chase Hoffberger. The Austin Chronicle, August 29, 2014 here: http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2014-08-29/heirloom-wisdom/