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When building an online course, one of the most important decisions is what learning management system (LMS) you will use.
Your LMS directly impacts the learning experience of your students, which means you need to choose wisely. For example, you need to make sure that your LMS integrates with your website and any other platforms you use. And, of course, you have to weigh the costs of the LMS against the features provided.
When researching what LMS you should choose, there's a good chance you've come across Kajabi, which is a very popular online course platform.
In this article, we will dive deep into Kajabi. You'll get a look at Kajabi's updated features, pricing, pros and cons, and learn how to create a course on this platform.
Let's begin!
What is Kajabi?
Kajabi is an LMS for hosting online courses. It features an all-in-one platform where you can host your website, run analytics, and engage your students for a powerful learning experience.
Since Kajabi is built around hosting online courses, its higher price point makes it a strong candidate for businesses that need an all-in-one platform to teach online.
Today Kajabi serves over 50,000 entrepreneurs in over 120 different countries. Through their courses, they have helped these entrepreneurs teach their classes to over 60 million students, generating over 3.5 billion in revenue.
Kajabi Pricing
When it comes to pricing, Kajabi is one of the more expensive options out there. While these price points might be jarring, Kajabi's value lies in its all-in-one platform.
To build an online course, you will likely need to invest in a website, email marketing software, the LMS, payment processors, and many other automations. Kajabi aims to simplify the process of building an online course by creating a centralized location to facilitate each component.
Billed Monthly Billed Annually (20% off)
Basic Plan $149/month $119/month
Growth Plan $199/month $159/month
Pro Plan $399/month $319/month
Depending on the needs of your business, Kajabi offers three different subscription plans. Each plan, if billed annually, provides a 20% discount on your subscription.
Each pricing tier offers you support through Kajabi University and a customer success activation call. Kajabi University will provide you with tutorial videos to navigate through different challenges. Your customer success activation call will be a strategy call with an on-staff customer success manager.
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The higher-tier plans offer greater levels of support. In addition to 24/7 chat support, you gain the ability to remove the Kajabi branding from the website and access their affiliate program. You have the option to set up additional admin user accounts, and you can serve more active students.
At the highest tier, you can manage up to 3 websites and access your source code. Changing your website code is especially valuable to technical users who want to make specific changes to their site via the code editor.
If your business requires a custom plan to allow for more students or products, you also have the option to speak with the Kajabi sales team.
Kajabi also offers a 14-day free trial. However, a credit card is required to sign up, so be sure to cancel your subscription if you choose not to use Kajabi. Otherwise, you will be automatically billed according to the selected subscription rate.
Now that you have an idea of what you would get for each price point let's dive into the meat and potatoes of the Kajabi platform itself.
Review of Kajabi Features
Online Course Builder
As we mentioned, Kajabi is known for being an LMS. The rest of the features are there to support the online course. So naturally, the first feature we need to look at is their LMS.
Depending on your subscription plan, you have a limit to the number of online courses you can host and the number of active students you can take on. Each online course you create counts as a product.
Max Number of Products Max Active Students
Basic Plan 3 1000
Growth Plan 15 10,000
Pro Plan 100 20,000
When you build an online course, you can teach through various mediums. Kajabi allows you to train your students through text, downloadable documents, audio, and video. Videos are restricted to 4GB per lesson as Wistia hosts them. Therefore, it is best to split the video into segments if you have a long video. Then you can turn each piece into another lesson in your online course.
Your online course content can be released to your students in several ways. You can drip content based on a set schedule or make each lesson or module locked until previous modules are completed. Or, if you prefer, you can release all your content at once to allow your students to choose which lessons they want to go through first.
You can include live video conferencing through webinars and prerecorded events. With Kajabi's automation tools, you can sell tickets to access your online events. If the event is a part of your online course, you can take the recordings and connect them.
If your online course has assignments, you have several options available. You can create quizzes and tasks that your students can complete online, or you can have them upload their work. Students can upload Word Docs, PDFs, videos, or MP3s, depending on the requirements of the course.
When it comes to creating quizzes and surveys, you can make these easily. Surveys allow you to get clarification from your students on a particular course-related issue, while quizzes help assess their learning. You can determine whether these assessments are graded. There are four types of questions that you can ask your students in your assessments.
Multiple Choice
Multiple Selection (Choose all that apply)
Paragraph (Type in your answer)
Upload a document
Multiple choice and multiple selection questions are graded automatically by Kajabi. However, paragraph questions and uploaded documents will require the teacher to grade them.
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As a teacher, you can track your students' progress and grades. Students can win badges for completing milestones and a certificate for completing the course.
Communities are often a bonus for students who purchase an online course. Traditionally, platforms such as Facebook are an easy go-to for creating a community. As an alternative, Kajabi has released its own community feature. A community counts as a product, and you can offer it to your students as a bonus or as a separate item.
The community feature allows you to post announcements, and students can also create posts. This central online venue can help your students keep everything related to their online learning together. You also are helping them minimize distractions by not hosting your community on a social media platform.
The community feed allows users to post videos, images, and links, as well as the ability to like and comment. All posts appear on the community feed, which you can scroll through like any other social media platform.
Website Builder
Another popular feature of Kajabi is its website builder. Constructing a website can be intimidating, especially if you are not technically savvy. With Kajabi's website builder, you can build your website with different blocks. These various blocks stack on top of each other just like legos to create your website.
To make things even easier, Kajabi has a variety of templates available that you can incorporate into your web pages. All you would need to do is change the text, photos, and colors to match your brand, and voila, you have a new web page.
In addition to building your site for desktops, Kajabi allows you to optimize your website for phones and tablets. Students can download the Kajabi app to use their different devices to complete your course.
Sales Pages
To get some students, you will need to build a sales funnel to attract them to your online course. Here's where your sales page comes in.
Kajabi offers multiple templates for sales pages, opt-in forms, and lead magnets. With these templates, you can easily create a compelling offer.
To create a sales page, go into pipelines and then select one of the many templates. Then update the branding and the copy to fit your business.
Email Marketing
Depending on your plan, you can grow an email list through Kajabi. You can use Kajabi's in-house email marketing platform or integrate with email service providers like MailChimp, Drip, ConvertKit, Segment, ActiveCampaign, ClickFunnels, and Aweber.
Max Email List
Basic Plan 10,000
Growth Plan 25,000
Pro Plan 100,000
Kajabi also offers a variety of templates to set up your email sequences. Once again, you will find these templates under pipelines. Kajabi makes it easy for you to implement these templates into a cohesive email marketing strategy. You can track key metrics such as open rates, bounce rates, and click-through rates.
Kajabi allows you to integrate your website with Google Analytics. Analytics is an excellent way to track how many people visit your website and measure their activity. It also helps you to learn new insights about your target audience.
Furthermore, you can use this data to optimize your website to raise your incoming traffic.
One thing to note is that as of July 1st, 2023, Google no longer supports Universal Analytics. Google has encouraged businesses to migrate their analytics to the newer Google Analytics 4 (GA4) as the metrics will be more accurate than Universal Analytics.
Kajabi has kept on top on this change and now allows users to integrate their sites to GA4.
Simplified Payment Processes
Kajabi's integrations with Paypal and Stripe make it easy to collect payments for your hard work. In addition, you can install third-party apps like Zapier to manage more complex automations relating to compensation.
You can also create different payment structures based on your offers. You have the option to create subscription plans, payment plans, or accept one-time payments for products. If you are hosting a sale, you can offer coupons, bundle pricing, or create limited-time offers with seasonal discounts.
Additional Support
Kajabi offers several forms of support in the event you get stuck. One of the first resources available to you is Kajabi University. Kajabi University is a series of Kajabi courses built to help you create the best possible online course. Kajabi University offers insight into every element of Kajabi – from website building to online course building, to email marketing, to Google Analytics.
Another great tool that Kajabi offers is its Facebook group Official Kajabi Hero Community. With over 33,500 members, you can ask questions within the community and get support quickly. You can also use this group as a means of getting inspiration for your online course as well.
Kajabi also has a chat support service where you can request help with technical and billing issues.
Now that you know what Kajabi offers, let's dive into its strengths and weaknesses.
What are the Pros and Cons of Kajabi?
Kajabi's all-in-one platform makes it much easier to manage your online course business. This saves you the trouble of searching for the right integrations for email marketing, analytics, website building, etc. All the tools are compatible and work with third-party platforms.
Course creators can easily craft professional-looking pages using page builders. In addition, their templates make it easy to get started, even if you are not technically savvy. This is a huge benefit for course creators who can't afford to hire a third party to create a complex website or marketing funnel.
Kajabi's online course builder allows you to create state-of-the-art courses for your students. You can easily upload a video and an audio recording of your lessons. Your students can access these lessons anywhere and anytime with their phones or tablets. With the graded assessments, you can cut down time grading and focus more of your time on helping your students succeed.
Kajabi is a premium course-building product without a free plan. Therefore, it may not be the best option for entrepreneurs who are just starting and have little capital. The basic plan costs $119/month if you pay annually. That totals out to $1428 per year.
You cannot customize your pages as much unless you have some technical knowledge. This requires you to understand a bit of HTML, CSS, and the code Liquid (the coding language used by Kajabi). You can still use the website builder without requiring any knowledge of coding. However, if you want a specific adjustment, such as moving a box several pixels to the right, you need to know how to code that change. If you do not have this specific knowledge, you may need to hire a third-party Kajabi expert to help you with these detailed customizations.
Compared to other third-party email marketing platforms, Kajabi seems to be lacking in functionality and deliverability. Kajabi does not deliver all your emails to people on your list as effectively, resulting in lower open rates. When it comes to email marketing, having your emails land in spam can dramatically hurt your deliverability. Most people do not check their spam box. As a result, your emails don't even reach your audience, costing you time and money.
Kajabi has no integration to Google Analytics 4, so businesses that don't use the Universal Analytics will find little value in it. In addition, the analytics provided are somewhat limited. Some metrics that Google can measure are not tracked in Kajabi. One example would be the number of unique views of a particular post. This means you cannot see which blog post is performing the best.
How to Get Started With Kajabi
Now that you're familiar with Kajabi's pricing, features, and pros and cons, let's take a look at how to get started on the platform.
Set Up Your Kajabi Account
To get started with Kajabi, you will need to set up an account first. To begin, choose a subscription plan appropriate to your business needs, and then register. Once you have created your account and verified your email address, Kajabi will ask you to answer a quick questionnaire. These questions help Kajabi direct you to the resources that would likely be most valuable to you.
Once you have completed the questionnaire, you should see your dashboard.
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Now that you can see your dashboard, there are several sections to note. You can view your website, products, sales, marketing, students, and analytics on the left sidebar.
Towards the bottom of the sidebar are your account and profile settings.
If you click on the settings tab, you can personalize your account and website.
In the center of your dashboard will be a box of tasks that Kajabi recommends you complete first. This is a quick and easy way to start creating your first online course, syncing your payment details with Kajabi, deciding on your prices, and setting up your brand.
Below the suggestions box will be another box where you can set up your 1-on-1 Customer Success call. Additional calls would require you to activate your subscription if you signed up using the 14-day free trial.
Set Up Your Website
If you have an existing website, you can link your Kajabi courses to your website. However, starting from scratch, you can use Kajabi's template websites to get yourself going.
Begin by clicking on the website tab on the left sidebar.
Under the subtab 'Designs,' you can pick from a wide selection of templates. Go ahead and choose the best theme for your business.
Once you have selected your theme, you can begin customizing by changing the text, pictures, and color schemes. If you have previously changed your brand settings, some elements should already appear on your web design.
In the customization tab, you will also be able to change the URLs for the subdomain of your webpage. You can add pages for your blog, sales letters, and link to your courses.
How to Create an Online Course
To create an online course, start by clicking on the products tab on the left sidebar. There are four types of courses that you can choose. Or, you can select the blank option if you prefer to create your course entirely from scratch. If you have a small course, then choose the mini-course box. For longer courses, you can select the online course option. If you prefer your students to work on your course material over a specific schedule for several weeks, then a drip course would be your best option.
Once you pick your course template, fill in the basic information for your course.
Once you create your course, you can start to add your lessons. You will find that the course material is separated by categories and posts. Categories represent a whole module of your course, while posts are individual lessons.
To add more content, click on the blue button that says, "Add Content." This button will allow you to add more categories, subcategories, and posts. In addition, you can upload multiple videos at once to help you save time.
To manage your course, click on the three dots next to the blue button. These three dots will allow you to make announcements and manage comments. You will be able to view the progress of your students.
If you have to release a similar course, you can clone your course to save you time and effort. Cloning is beneficial for separating your main online course from products tailored to specific companies or audiences.
Now that you have created your course, you can change the theme under the customize tab.
Once you have chosen your theme, you can start to customize your student's learning experience.
After these steps, you will have your first course and a website.
But let's say you also want to set up a coaching program. Let's take a look at how this is done.
How to Create a Coaching Program
Creating a coaching program is similar to creating an online course. On your main dashboard, click on products, then click coaching.
There are three things Kajabi will ask you to get your coaching program started. First, they will ask you whether you are selling a single coaching session or a package.
Next, you will need to fill out some basic information about your coaching program. You will also need to upload a thumbnail.
Lastly, you will need to link your coaching program to your preferred mode of scheduling your sessions. Kajabi does integrate with Calendly, or you can use another calendar-booking app.
Once you set up your coaching program, you are ready to release and start bringing in students!
Check Out Kajabi University
If you are stuck or have a challenge in Kajabi, then make sure you leverage their biggest learning tool, Kajabi University. To use Kajabi University, click on your profile on the left sidebar. This button will open a box with one tab being Kajabi University.
Select Kajabi University, and you should be brought to a page that looks like this.
Here, you will be able to view different courses about how to build and grow a successful online course business using Kajabi.
What Are Some Kajabi Alternatives?
Choosing an LMS is not an easy decision and Kajabi is only one option among many. If you are unsure about whether Kajabi is right for you, then it may be beneficial to look at other LMS alternatives to make a more informed decision.
Here are some Kajabi alternatives to consider:
Kajabi FAQs
Is there a Free Trial?
Yes, there is a 14-day free trial. However, you will have to enter your credit card information in order to make an account. At the end of the 14 days, your account will be billed unless you cancel it.
Is There a Money-Back Guarantee?
Yes. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee. Simply email the billing department within 30 days, and they will refund you.
Is Kajabi Right For Me?
Now you might be wondering, is Kajabi worth it?
Well, it comes down to what your business needs are. Kajabi's pricing may make it an unrealistic option if your business does not have much capital. However, if you can afford the monthly subscription, you may benefit significantly from their all-in-one platform.
You will need some technical knowledge to make the most of your Kajabi account, but you can easily outsource this to a Kajabi expert.
Overall, Kajabi is a premium platform that can help you build quality online courses. In addition, you can create a community and coaching programs. These different products allow you to sell them as a bundle.
If you are still unsure if Kajabi suits you, sign up for their 14-day free trial. Play around with the features and see if the LMS is right for you. And if you find Kajabi to be LMS your business needs, start creating your premium courses!
To learn more about the process of creating online courses, you may want to join us on our Hybrid Courses Bootcamp. It's completely free to join and teaches you how to create a successful and profitable online course.


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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a funeral?
A funeral is a ceremony for a deceased person prior to burial or cremation. A funeral gives the opportunity for family and friends of the deceased to gather and mourn the passing of their loved one, to share cherished memories and celebrate their life. A funeral is a vital first step to help the bereaved heal after the loss of someone special.
What type of service should I have?
If no pre-arrangements have been made, the type of service is entirely up to you. Services are usually held at a funeral home or a place of worship. There is a wealth of different services, ranging from a traditional religious or military service to something a little more non-traditional. Our funeral directors are more than happy to work with you to figure out what would be the most appropriate.
Can I personalize a funeral?
Of course you can, in fact more and more people are opting for a more non-traditional personalized service. There is no right or wrong way to celebrate somebody's life. There are many unique ways to celebrate life, let the funeral director know exactly what your desires are and they will honor your wishes.
Do we need to have an obituary notice and what is included in one?
It is highly recommended to have an obituary notice that's either placed in a local newspaper, or placed online. An obituary lets the public know that a death has occurred, and gives them information about the service. Obituaries generally include the deceased's full name, age, city and date of birth and the city they were living in when they died. It also includes the name of the deceased's spouse, along with the names of anyone else significant in their lives, such as parents, children or grandchildren. Space may be limited in a newspaper obituary, but you may include a little blurb on the life and legacy of the deceased. An online obituary or memorial website offers you the chance to add a lot more about the deceased.
Who are funeral directors and what do they do?
Funeral directors are in charge of all the logistics following a death. They complete all the necessary paperwork, make arrangements for the transportation of the body, and put into action the choices made by the family in regards to the funeral service and the final resting place of the body. Beyond the logistics, funeral directors are there to provide moral support and guidance for someone coping with death.
What happens if the death occurs in the middle of the night or on the weekend?
We are here to help, funeral directors are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.
What if a death occurs away from my home town?
We are here to help, we can arrange to have the remains transported home from anywhere in the world. We will assume responsibility and make the proper arrangements to have the remains return to the community.
What is embalming and what purpose does it serve?
Embalming sanitizes and preserves the body; it also slows down the decomposition process and enhances the appearance of the body damaged by traumatic death or illness. Embalming gives time to the family of the deceased to arrange a service, and allows the family the option of having an open-casket viewing.
Do I need to have an embalming?
No. In fact some religions forbid embalming. However, some countries require embalming by law in order for remains to leave or enter the country. If it is not against your religious custom, embalming is recommended, especially if there is an extended gap between death and burial or cremation.
How much does a funeral cost?
The cost of the funeral varies depending on the wishes you have. The average cost of a funeral is between $5,000-$7,000, however, the most basic of services can cost as little as $1000. The cost includes all professional services including transportation, embalming and other preparations, the use of a facility for the ceremony, and the purchase of a casket or urn.
Why are funerals so expensive?
Funerals are labor intensive and require a lot of work from a lot of people. The cost of a funeral goes beyond merchandise such as caskets, it includes the services of a funeral director in making the necessary arrangements, filling out forms, and dealing with all the other people involved in the death (doctors, lawyers, insurance companies). Funeral directors work an average of 40 hours per funeral. The cost of operating a funeral home is factored into the cost as well. Funeral homes are a 24 hour operation, with extensive facilities that need to be maintained and secured.
What do I do if I am not satisfied with the way a funeral was handled?
Funeral Services in the United States is regulated by the Federal Trade Commission, they can be reached by telephone at 1-877-FTC-HELP (382-4357) or you can fill out a form online at www.ftc.gov.


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Starfire Diamond Jewellery has a myriad of styles in a range of finger sizes in stock, with M being the most popular ladies ring size and U being the most popular men's ring size. With this in mind, even if your choice doesn't fit your partner's ring finger, it will more than likely fit another at that truly special moment.
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It provides shipping on all orders to Customers in Australia and New Zealand at standard Australia Post rates. Goods will be shipped using Express post with signature required. These orders are also fully insured by the Company up to a particular dollar value amount.
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The Company's returns, refunds and exchange policies are as follows:
Jewellery Guarantee
(i) The Company stands by the quality and craftsmanship of its Jewellery. All the Company's Jewellery is manufactured with the highest quality materials, using the latest in innovative technology and created by highly skilled designers and jewelers.
(ii) All jewellery is thoroughly inspected before it is shipped., Customers are provided with a lifetime guarantee against manufacturing faults on all Starfire Diamonds manufactured items. If for any reason a Customer finds a manufacturing fault with their jewellery item, they should bring it in to the Company's store or ship it to the Company to be assessed by the Company's jewellers. Repairs for manufacturing faults are free of charge to the Customer.
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Claims and Returns
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(iii) No return of Goods that are allegedly defective or faulty will be accepted by the Company unless either:
The Customer is a Consumer in relation to those Goods and is entitled to return them because a Consumer Guarantee applies; or
The Company has given prior written authorization for the return of the Goods.
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The Company may, in its discretion, refuse to accept a return of the Goods that:
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(c) are the subject of a claim that is more than 14 days from the date of purchase or repair of the Goods.
Any dispute as to what is reasonable "general wear and tear damage' or any other dispute under these provisions shall be referred to the President of the Jewellery Association of Australia in accordance with the dispute resolution procedures set out in paragraphs 16 of the Trading Terms.
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(e) Refunds for returned items will be issued in the same form they were originally paid.
(f) Jewellery items received outside of the refund period will not be accepted.
(g) No refunds on sale or clearance items.
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Loose Diamonds Claims, Returns and Exchange Policy
The following money back guarantee ("MBG") exchange and refund policies and procedures shall apply to:
Diamonds purchased from the Company's In Store Selection:
Stock diamonds can be viewed in store at any time,
These diamonds can be returned and refunded in full within 14 days of purchase or can be exchanged and refund if the order fits the 30-day moneyback arrangements set out herein
The Company will not accept any returns of loose or set diamonds without the original GIA certificate (as GIA no longer makes replacement certificates)
The MBG is valid for 14 days from the date the order is collected by the customer. Goods received outside of this 14-day period will not be accepted.
The 14-day MBG will only be valid if the Customer pays for the Goods at the time of placing the order
If a customer decides to pay by instalments via the Company's layby policy, the 14-day MBG will not be applicable
Items that are deemed special orders or custom-made Goods, will be eligible for the 14-day MBG for the diamond ONLY. Customers cannot return or exchange the setting.
Sale and/or discounted items will not be valid for the MBG.
Diamonds purchased from the Company's Online Selection:
These diamonds can be returned and refunded within 14 days of purchase or can be exchanged and refund if the order fits the 14-day MBG arrangements herein described.
The Company will not accept any returns of loose or set diamonds without an ORIGINAL GIA certificate (as GIA no longer makes replacement certificates)
The MBG is valid for 14 days from the date the order is shipped. Diamonds received outside of this 14-day period will not be accepted
The Customer has 14 days from the date that the order is shipped to return their order – the order can arrive outside of the 14 days if the return shipment has been postmarked with a date inside of the 14-day MBG period.
The 14-day MBG policy is valid for Australian Customers only
No MBG is offered to international Customers (excluding New Zealand)
Items that are deemed special orders or custom-made Goods, will be eligible for the 14-day MBG for the diamond ONLY. Customers cannot return or exchange the setting.
Sale items will not be valid for the MBG
Note- MBG may not apply in some situations:
For both in store and online purchases if a customer:
Makes two different purchases of stones and the second purchase is made under a different name.
Purchases two or more diamonds within a period of 12 months from the date of the first purchase; then in each such case the MBG shall, in the Company's absolute discretion, apply only to the first purchase.
MBG will not apply to any goods if the customer has claimed GST through the TRS scheme
In some other cases, the MBG may in the Company's absolute discretion, not apply at all. These include situations where:
The Customer has purchased a diamond for a ring/pendant/earring or other piece of jewellery and likes the diamond but has decided not to proceed with the purchase because they do not like the design of the item after the Company has changed the setting at the Customer's request.
If a customer decides to proceed with a diamond purchase after they have been advised by the Company not to.
If the Goods have been damaged or has been worn.
If the diamond is not returned to the Company in its original packing.
If a third party has repaired or resized the diamond; and
If the Customer has not paid the full value of the diamonds and/or the ring.
Diamonds sourced from Affiliated International Suppliers- applies to online purchases only
The following return and refund policies and procedures apply to these diamonds:
(a) These diamonds can be brought in from overseas, (no viewing).
(b) These diamonds can be returned and refunded within 14 days of purchase provided always that the MGB policies and procedures outlined in points C (i) and (ii) above shall apply.
(c) Diamonds received outside of the 14-day period will not be accepted.
(d) Diamonds returned without their original Diamond Certificate will not be accepted as GIA no longer makes replacement certificates.
(e) The Customer must contact the Company first before returning an item.
Further returns and refunds policies and procedures
In addition to the returns and refund policies set out above, the following additional policies and procedures also apply to the return of Goods to the Company and must be complied with by the Customer:
(i) Where a customer wishes to return a diamond, seek a refund or exchange or repair a diamond that they have purchased they must first contact the Company before proceeding to obtain the Company's consent for such return. If return is agreed to, the Customer will then be given the necessary instructions on how to proceed with the return.
(ii) When returning Goods, a customer must include all the original packaging, the original certificate(s) and a copy of the invoice.
(iii) For security purposes, a customer should not write the words "Starfire Diamonds", or the word "jewellery" or any other words indicating jewellery (diamonds or gold) on the outside of the box or package.
(iv) If the Customer is advised to return any Goods to the Company, they should ship the item to the Brisbane showroom.
(v) When returning Goods, a customer should send the package by registered mail as this is a safe way to ship valuable items.
(vi) Customers should ensure any package they send to the Company for the entire amount of the invoice including shipping/handling costs. For returns in excess of $5000, the Customer should contact a third-party insurance company for their protection coverage. The Customer shall bear the costs of any third-party insurance and return shipping
(vii) Loss, damage or theft of return shipments are the sole responsibility of the Customer, and the Company shall have no liability for any loss or damage that the Customer may suffer during return shipping. For the avoidance of doubt, no refund will be granted if the Company does not receive the package from the Customer for any reason including without limitation by reason of theft or any act or omission by the Customer or a third party.
(viii) If the Customer is advised to come into the Company's store in person, the Company's address, 158 0xford St, Bulimba, Brisbane, Queensland, 4171 Australia.
(ix) Once a return is accepted by the Company, a representative of the Company will contact the Customer to handle the conditions of the return, exchange, or repair.
(x) Any refund will cover only the price of the item, excluding shipping/handling and insurance costs.
(xi) Any returns, refunds, exchanges, and repairs that do not comply with the Company's policies and procedures set out in this Schedule will not be accepted.
Customers are entitled to one complimentary resize with a month of purchase.
The Customer has the option of resizing by sending their item via insured courier (at their cost) the Company must be notified in writing that a resizing has been requested or bringing their item into the company's Brisbane showroom.
Resizing takes approximately 3-5 days for completion.
The free resize applies to resizing up or down two sizes. Any resizes greater than two sizes will incur a charge.
The Company cannot resize eternity rings or any diamond band rings with diamonds covering more than half of the band.
At the discretion of the Company's Owner, the Company may agree to polish and plate non-Starfire Diamond jewellery provided always that the Company will not be liable for any stones falling out, chipped diamonds, warranties being void due to our handling of non-Starfire Diamond jewellery.
Customers are entitled to one complimentary resize a year for the lifetime of their purchase.
Resizing takes 3-7days for completion.
The Company is unable to resize more than three sizes up or down. If customer agrees to more than that then it would be at their discretion.
The Company cannot resize eternity rings or any diamond band rings with diamonds covering more than half of the band.
The following Inspection Policy applies to all purchases made online or instore:
Every diamond purchase from the Company undergoes careful inspection to ensure its suitability
If the Company deems that a particular diamond is unsuitable for any reason based on its expertise, the Customer will be advised of this fact via email or telephone. (Note; if the Customer still wishes to proceed with the order, the MBG will not apply):
Customers may bring their own diamonds into the Company's store to set in one of the Company's settings or a custom setting made by Diamond Story.
The Company will not be liable if the Customer's stone is treated, and loss or damage occurs during this process.
The Company will only accept a customer's stone if the customer consents to be liable for any loss or damage to it if no certification and paperwork is provided.
Customers must bring a copy of the relevant invoice relating to their purchase of the Goods when collecting their order.
If they do not bring their invoice, they must verify their identity with 100 points of ID (including photo id).
The Company will not be liable to the Customer for any loss or damage that they may suffer arising from any act or omission by any staff, employee
Starfire Diamonds reserves the right to cancel a sale if we believe one of the following has happened
Human error or computer program error displaying incorrect pricing.
If we believe the sale is not genuine, we will cancel the sale and either refund all monies to the customer or forward to relevant authorities.
Starfire Diamond's will do our best to ensure pricing reflected on the website is accurate but please note that errors do occur from time to time, and we apologise in advance if this affects you.
If there is a discrepancy in what the website states and what is said in-store, the invoice given at point of purchase and the retail replacement valuation will supersede any such confusion.
14 Day return policy
For your peace of mind Starfire Diamonds offers a 14-day return policy subject to the following conditions
The item is returned in its original condition to the store within 14 days of the item being picked up from our showroom or being dispatched to you.
14-day return policy applies to ready stock items only in store.
custom made jewellery will not be included in this return policy.
Special orders will not be included in this return policy.
The diamond or gemstone (if applicable) is not damaged or altered in any way.
The Company's current shipping policy with respect to orders placed by Customers with the Company is as follows:
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JOE McDONALD and YOUKYUNG LEE
AP Business Writers
| Monday, December 3, 2012, 10:05 a.m.
SEOUL, South Korea — Shin Cheol-soo no longer sees his future in the United States.
The South Korean businessman supplied components to American automakers for a decade. But this year, he uprooted his family from Detroit and moved home to focus on selling to the new economic superpower: China.
In just five years, China has surpassed the United States as a trading partner for much of the world, including U.S. allies such as South Korea and Australia, according to an Associated Press analysis of trade data. As recently as 2006, the U.S. was the larger trading partner for 127 countries, versus just 70 for China. By last year the two had clearly traded places: 124 countries for China, 76 for the U.S.
EDITOR'S NOTE — This is the first installment in "China's Reach," a project that will analyze China's influence with its trading partners over three decades, and explore how that is changing business, politics and daily life.
In the most abrupt global shift of its kind since World War II, the trend is changing the way people live and do business from Africa to Arizona, as farmers plant more soybeans to sell to China and students sign up to learn Mandarin.
The findings show how fast China has ascended to challenge America's century-old status as the globe's dominant trader, a change that is gradually translating into political influence. They highlight how pervasive China's impact has been, spreading from neighboring Asia to Africa and now emerging in Latin America, the traditional U.S. backyard.
Despite China's now-slowing economy, its share of world output and trade is expected to keep rising, with growth forecast at up to 8 percent a year over the next decade, far above U.S. and European levels. This growth could strengthen the hand of a new generation of just-named Chinese leaders, even as it fuels strain with other nations.
Last year, Shin's Ena Industry Co. made half his sales of rubber and plastic parts to U.S. factories. But his plans call for China, which overtook the United States as the biggest auto market in 2009, to rise fivefold to 30 percent of his total by 2015. He and his children are studying Mandarin.
"The United States is a tiger with no power," Shin said in his office, where three walls are lined with books, many about China. "Nobody can deny that China is the one now rising."
Trade is a bit like football — the balance of exports and imports, like the game score, is a neat snapshot of a jumble of moves that make up the economy, and both sides are apt to accuse each other of cheating from time to time. Also, the U.S. and China are both rivals and partners who can't have a match without each other, and a strong performance from both is good for the entire league.
Trade may get less publicity than military affairs or diplomacy, yet it is commerce that generates jobs and raises living standards. Trade can also translate into political power. As shopkeepers say, the customer is always right: Governments listen to countries that buy their goods, and the threat to stop buying is one of the most potent diplomatic weapons.
China has been slow to flex its political muscle on a large scale but is starting to push back in disputes over trade, exchange rates and climate change.
"When a German chancellor or French president goes to China, right at the top of the list, he's trying to sell Airbuses and other products and is being sensitive to China's political concerns, like on human rights," said C. Fred Bergsten, a former U.S. Treasury Department official who heads the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.
The United States is still the world's biggest importer, but China is gaining. It was a bigger market than the United States for 77 countries in 2011, up from 20 in 2000, according to the AP analysis.
The AP is using International Monetary Fund data to measure the importance of trade with China for some 180 countries and track how it changes over time. The analysis divides a nation's trade with China by its gross domestic product.
The story that emerges is of China's breakneck rise, rather than of a U.S. decline. In 2002, trade with China was 3 percent of a country's GDP on average, compared with 8.7 percent with the U.S. But China caught up, and surged ahead in 2008. Last year, trade with China averaged 12.4 percent of GDP for other countries, higher than that with America at any time in the last 30 years.
Of course, not all trade is equal. China's trade is mostly low-end goods and commodities, while the U.S. competes at the upper end of the market.
Also, even though Chinese companies invest abroad and employ thousands of foreign workers, they lag behind American industry in building global alliances and in innovation, which is still rewarded in the marketplace. China's competitive edge remains low labor and other costs, while the U.S. is the world's center for innovation in autos, aerospace, computers, medicine, munitions, finance and pharmaceuticals. The Chinese have yet to build a car that will pass U.S. or European emission standards.
And the United States still does more trade overall — but just barely. If the trend continues, China will push past the U.S. this year, a remarkable feat for a country so poor 30 years ago that the average person had never talked on a telephone.
"The center of gravity of the world economy has moved to the east," said Mauricio Cardenas, the finance minister in Colombia. Like most of Latin America, his country is still more closely tied to the U.S., but its trade with China has risen from virtually nothing to 2.5 percent of GDP, a more than tenfold increase since 2001. "I would say that there is nothing comparable in the last 50 years."
In one sense, China's growing presence in trade is just restoring the Middle Kingdom to its historic dominance. China was the biggest economy for centuries until about 1800, when the industrial revolution propelled first Europe and then the U.S. into the lead.
China began its return to the global stage in the 1990s as a manufacturer of low-priced goods, from T-shirts to toys. Factories in other countries slashed costs to meet the "China price" or were pushed out of the market.
As the new millennium dawned, the U.S. remained by far the world's dominant trader, rivaled collectively by Europe but no single nation. However, from 2000 to 2008, China's imports grew 403 percent and exports 474 percent, driven in part by its entrance into the World Trade Organization and its move to higher-value production.
China's imports of oil and raw materials for its factories propelled resource booms in parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. China's demand for steel for manufacturing and construction grew so fast that its mills now consume half the world's output of iron ore.
Zambia, a major copper producer, switched to the China column in 2000. Australia, a coal and iron ore exporter, followed in 2005. Chile, another copper supplier, moved in 2009.
Meanwhile, exports surged as Apple, Samsung, Nokia and other electronics giants shifted final assembly to China. Shipments of mobile phones, flat-screen TVs and personal computers have jumped sevenfold over the past decade to nearly $500 billion. That made China a major customer for high-tech components supplied by countries such as South Korea, which swung into China's column in 2003, followed by Malaysia in 2007.
In the U.S., Vermont-based manufacturer SBE Inc. started exporting capacitors — energy-storage devices used in computers, hybrid cars and wind turbines — in 2006. The company now gets 15 to 20 percent of its revenue from China, and has hired 10 employees there.
As China grew richer, its people spent more.
Chinese ate more pork, fried chicken and hamburgers, rapidly sending up the demand for soybeans to make cooking oil and feed for pigs and cows. Some cattle ranchers in Latin America turned grazing land into fields of soy, a crop few in their region consume. Soybean exports helped push Brazil into the China column in 2010, and put China neck and neck with the U.S. as Argentina's top trading partner.
In the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, some 10,000 miles (17,000 kilometers) from Beijing, farmer Agenor Vicente Pelissa and his family raise cattle and soy on 54,300 acres, a farm twice the size of Manhattan. Half their 21,000-ton annual soybean harvest goes to China.
"We've invested more in technology and in better machines and equipment to meet this rising demand," Pelissa said. "If it hadn't been for China, we would not have not modernized our operations, at least not as quickly as we did."
Even in the U.S., better known for manufacturing, farmers are rushing to sell to China. The United States is the largest exporter of soybeans to China, followed by Brazil and Argentina. China's purchases of American soybeans have risen from almost nothing 20 years ago to a quarter of the crop: 24 million tons worth $12.1 billion, America's largest export to China.
The boom is having a profound effect on farming communities, said Grant Kimberley, whose family farm near Des Moines, Iowa, now grows 4,000 acres of soybeans, up from 3,500 eight years ago.
"It's provided more revenue for these farmers than they've ever seen in their lives," said Kimberley, who is also director of market development at the Iowa Soybean Association. He said he sees more young people returning to the farm. "People can see there's an opportunity to make nice livings for their families."
It was the 2008 global crisis that showed the resilience of China's exporters.
The recession set everyone back, but China less so than the U.S. or other major traders such as Germany. China does a bigger share of its trade with developing countries that suffered less and rebounded faster, while the United States sells to rich economies that are struggling. Chinese companies have boosted exports by 7 percent this year despite anemic global demand.
During the recession, Shin, the South Korean auto parts manufacturer, saw his sales fall 50 percent. He shut one of three production lines, and banks stopped lending him money.
But China's auto market was powering ahead. So Shin hired an employee in China, and is now making plans for his first factory there. On a business trip to Germany, clients told him their Chinese factories would be larger than those at home.
Parents like Shin, who work at companies doing business with China, in turn fed enrollment growth at schools such as Teacher Ching, a Chinese-language kindergarten in Seoul.
Nancy Ching, the daughter of immigrants from Taiwan, opened the school with 15 students in 2004, the year after South Korea first moved from the U.S. column to the China column. Today she has 60.
"Mothers who send their kids here believe our children's generation is the China generation," she said in Chinese-accented Korean. "In the future, without learning Chinese, one won't be able to get a job."
China resumed its upward trajectory in the last two years. Even with key Western markets in a slump, exports are up 58 percent since 2009. Imports are up an even sharper 73 percent.
Rising incomes have driven demand for wine and other luxury goods, making China a lifeline for European and American vineyards when the global crisis battered traditional markets.
The Chinese have "helped Bordeaux a lot these past three years," said Florence Cathiard, owner of Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte in the Pessac-Leognan area of France's southwest, home of high-end Bordeaux wine.
France's wine exports to China first surged in 2009, and by last year, China had surpassed the U.S. as a customer by volume. Americans still spend more, because they buy more expensive wines. But China is developing a taste for grand cru wine, the "great growths" that are considered exceptional and command higher prices.
Cathiard acknowledged that she was initially wary of China as a reliable market for her high-end wines. But the turning point for her came around 2008, when she was blown away by the number of people showing up for a master class by her chateau at a wine expo in Hong Kong.
China now accounts for 25 percent of Cathiard's sales, making it her largest market.
The owners of Chateau Haut-Bailly, also in Pessac-Leognan, first traveled to China to test the waters in 2000, and it was too early.
"At the time, they didn't know what a cork or a corkscrew was," said Veronique Sanders, the chateau's general manager.
Chinese sophistication has since advanced rapidly, she said.
"The difference with other emerging markets we've gone into in the past is the size of the country, which means it has an absolutely incredible potential."
The next step in China's trade evolution is to move beyond exporting TVs and lawn furniture to selling services and investing abroad.
The investment trend started with state-owned companies that bought stakes in foreign mines and oil fields. Smaller and private Chinese companies followed, acquiring foreign enterprises to gain a bigger foothold in overseas markets, more access to resources and better technology for their own development.
China is now pushing into construction and engineering, where U.S. and European companies have long dominated.
In Algeria, Chinese state-owned companies pushed aside established French and German rivals to win contracts to build a $12 billion cross-country highway and the $1.3 billion Great Mosque of Algeria. The Chinese have also built highways, dams and other projects in developing countries and are starting to win contracts in the U.S. and Europe.
On a new 50-kilometer (30-mile) highway leading north of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, dark asphalt stretches across six to eight lanes.
The $300 million road was built by three Chinese companies and financed by the African Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China. It has cut a trip that took several hours 18 months ago to 10 minutes, said Joseph Makori, a professional driver.
"When we see the people from America, they say, 'We want to assist Kenya'," said Makori as he looked for work at an interchange about 10 kilometers from downtown. "But I don't see it. China comes and I see one thing: the road."
Chinese companies are starting to win government contracts in Kenya, which has ports that offer access to landlocked Uganda, South Sudan and Rwanda. Governments in Africa are keen to work with China because it does not tie development to human rights or democracy, said Stephen Mutoro, secretary general of the Consumer Federation of Kenya.
"China appears to have a long-term plan based on increasing its commercial interests where governance issues are given a back burner," Mutoro said. The experience of Congo might foreshadow a more complex approach that Beijing envisages for other African nations. In 2008, the two governments signed a $9 billion deal for Chinese companies to build 177 hospitals and health centers, two hydroelectric dams and thousands of miles of railways and roads. In exchange, Congo was to provide 10.6 million tons of copper and 600,000 tons of cobalt.
The deal has since been scaled back to $6 billion under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, which felt Congo was taking on too much debt.
China's outbound investment totaled $67.6 billion last year — just one-sixth of America's nearly $400 billion — but it could reach $2 trillion by 2020, according to a forecast by Rhodium Group, a research firm in New York City.
As a result, Chinese companies are using a new export — jobs.
Employees at Volvo Cars worried after Chinese automaker Geely Holdings bought the money-losing Swedish brand from Ford Motor Co. in 2010. But two years later, instead of moving jobs to China, Geely has expanded Volvo's European workforce of 19,500 to about 21,500.
Majority-owned U.S. affiliates of Chinese companies support about 27,000 American jobs, up from fewer than 10,000 five years ago, according to Rhodium.
In Goodyear, Arizona, Stacey Rassas was laid off in May 2010 after a 16-year career in quality control for aerospace and aluminum manufacturers. By late autumn, she and her husband were worried they might lose their house.
She finally landed a job that December at a new factory that makes solar panels for one of the world's biggest solar manufacturers.
"It was the best day ever," she said.
Her new employer? Suntech Power Holdings Co., a Chinese company.
McDonald reported from Beijing. AP Business Writers Sarah DiLorenzo in Paris and Jonathan Fahey and Scott Mayerowitz in New York and AP writers Michelle Faul in Johannesburg; Louise Nordstrom in Stockholm; Luis Andres Henao in Santiago, Chile; Cesar Garcia in Bogota, Colombia; Paul Schemm in Algiers, Algeria; Stan Lehman in Sao Paulo; Troy Thibodeaux in New Orleans; and Jason Straziuso and Tom Odula in Nairobi, Kenya; and AP interactive producer Pailin Wedel in Bangkok contributed.
EDITOR'S NOTE — This is the first installment in "China's Reach," a project that will analyze China's influence with its trading partners over three decades, and explore how that is changing business, politics and daily life.


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01/11/2011 Pakistan (CDN)-Christian leaders in Punjab Province's Nankana Sahib district said they were apprehensive after a police inspector's warning on Friday (Jan. 7) that "they would be responsible for anything that went wrong in the villages" if they continued preaching over a public address system.
Eight pastors leading a delegation of more than 100 Christians from Martinpur and Youngsenabad villages had persuaded police to drop the charge of preaching over the church loudspeakers – a practice routinely allowed by Muslims in mosques. They complained of inspector Muhammad Rana Ishaq's veiled threat to the police chief, but they fear Ishaq will file other false cases against them in retaliation for the withdrawal of the charge.
The Christian delegation registered a strong protest with the Nankana police chief for restricting their worship. After two hours of talks, the police chief conceded that his staff had discriminated against the Christians and ordered withdrawal of the case. Police had filed a case against the eight pastors for "misusing loudspeakers" on Dec. 25, 2010. The pastors said police should have taken into account that it was Christmas Day, and that residents of the two villages were worshipping in their churches.
Pastor Mubarak Victor of Cavalry Gospel Church in Martinpur village told Compass that he and seven other pastors – Chandan Lal, William Kayani, Shahzad Fakhardin, Amoon Samuel, Shamaoon Khokhar, Amir Sohail and Hanooq Daniel – had been named in the case. Victor said the charge was ridiculous, as they have been preaching and worshipping on public address systems for decades.
"Our villages are inhabited by Christians, and we have been worshipping freely for years," Pastor Victor said. "A ban on using loudspeakers was imposed on Muslim clerics because they often indulge in fanning sectarianism. This action of the administration is nothing but religious bigotry."
He added that filing a case against the pastors on Christmas Day was a step towards restricting the Christians' right to worship. The two villages have a combined Christian population of around 10,000.
"Muslims from our neighboring villages are behind this move," Pastor Victor said. "Over the last couple of years, Muslims, mostly youth and women, have started coming to us for prayers. Almost all the Muslims who have visited my church said they were impressed by our sermons and worship and asked me to pray for them. Some have even denounced their faith but are keeping it a secret from their families."
He said the pastors were not forcing the Muslims to come to them.
"It is the sincerity in our prayers and the testimonies we share that bring a change of heart in them," he said.
Pastors Chandan Lal and Amir Sohail voiced similar concerns.
"Martinpur and Youngsenabad are Christian villages. Our public address systems have only been used for God's Word and to give glory to His name," Pastor Lal said. "They [police] registered a case against us only to intimidate us into restricting our worship. We won't accept this at any cost."
He said that Muslim prayer leaders used public address systems with impunity even though they were the ones who had actually been restricted from using it, other than regular calls to prayer (azaans).
"We have never said a word against any religion, let alone Islam," Pastor Lal said. "When the villagers don't have an issue with praise and worship on PA systems, who are the police to interfere?"
Malik Aftab, a village elder from Youngsenabad, told Compass that the villagers would not let police arrest any of the pastors.
"They [the police] are provoking us unnecessarily by registering a case against the pastors on Christmas day," Aftab said. "Has anyone arrested any mullah [Muslim prayer leader] when they are addressing Eid sermons on loudspeakers? Why the discrimination?"
Chaudhry Habil Qaiser, 90, who is one of the oldest residents in Martinpur village, said he and his 86-year-old wife cannot go to church for praise and worship due to their old age.
"We join the congregation in praise and worship while listening to the church loudspeakers," he said. "The government should not impose such restrictions in our village."
Nankana District Police Officer Shahzad Waheed said the pastors had been booked for violating the Amplifier Act, but he had no explanation for why Muslim clerics were not booked for misusing loudspeakers when delivering hours-long sermons on the Muslim festival of Eid and for Friday prayers, especially as these acts led directly to introduction of the Amplifier Act.
Nankana district is the same one that Asia Noreen, the first Christian woman sentenced to death on blasphemy charges, lived in before her conviction. Her village of Ittanwali is about 15 kilometers (nine miles) from Martinpur and Youngsenabad.


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