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03-02-2005, 02:58 PM
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Re: Engagement Rings
 Some of you may think this is crazy, but I bought my wife's ring on Ebay. I found out what her size was by ordering one of those ring-sizing sets off the net (about $1, I think) and measuring one of the rings she already has. I got a great price on the ring. I waited until I had the ring, then "popped the question" while sliding the ring halfway onto her finger. She was stunned and very pleased, to say the least. She said I was the only one who "did it right." I later had the ring appraised at a local jewelry store and the value is 4.7X what I paid. 
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03-02-2005, 03:02 PM
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Re: Engagement Rings
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It slays me when I hear the recommended "x months salary for her ring". *I can't even remember what x is supposed to equal.
How 'bout I recommend they market to some other schmoe who will eat that hook, line, and sinker...
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The X is supposed to be 6 months salary. 
I love the current marketing plans: The Past, Present, and Future Ring (3 solitaires on one ring); and the I Forever Do Ring (for when you marry the same woman again). You gotta admit, the diamond marketers are brilliant.
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03-02-2005, 03:09 PM
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Re: Engagement Rings
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The X is supposed to be 6 months salary. *
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They must have been upping those numbers again cause I can remember when the reccomendation shifted from 2 to 3.
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03-02-2005, 04:58 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Re: Engagement Rings
Amazingly good marketeers. I love the current campaign for successful single women to show their success off by buying their own diamond for their right hand. : 
You have to see some of the smuggled videos of debeers warehouses where they literally have bulldozers pushing mounds of uncut diamonds from one area to another...
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03-02-2005, 08:31 PM
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