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who is paying attention to womens diamond wedding rings
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:19 pm
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:19 pm
Lately on the radio I am hearing all the jewelry shops talking about 5k, 10k, 20k diamond wedding rings.
Biggest scam in global history. You young bucks save your money for a house instead of this bullshite.
who is even looking at these rings on womens finger except for some of those OT stalkers.
Biggest scam in global history. You young bucks save your money for a house instead of this bullshite.
who is even looking at these rings on womens finger except for some of those OT stalkers.
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:20 pm to t00f
Women compare this shite with each other and want to have the best ring possible out of all their friends and coworkers.
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:20 pm to t00f
Unless her ring finger is in front of her tits I’m not looking
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:22 pm to t00f
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who is even looking at these rings on womens finger except for some of those OT stalkers.
Fun fact: single women in the public eye often wear prominent engagement rings for that very reason.
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:23 pm to t00f
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who is even looking at these rings on womens finger
I judge wedding rings irl
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those OT stalkers
Notwithstanding
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:25 pm to t00f
quote:I got both.
Biggest scam in global history. You young bucks save your money for a house instead of this bullshite.
Why begrudge someone wanting to do this for their wife to-be if they’re not a poor?
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:26 pm to t00f
quote:covid
Biggest scam in global history.
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:26 pm to t00f
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Biggest scam in global history.
Reddit down again?
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:28 pm to t00f
You know how much more fun that would be to spend on a horse?
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:29 pm to t00f
Just had my wife's ring appraise for over 100% of purchase price. Thats 20yrs, now I have to up the insurance. She's not taking it to the grave, lol.
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:31 pm to t00f
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Biggest scam in global history. You young bucks save your money for a house instead of this bullshite.
Try explaining this to a woman
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:34 pm to t00f
The diamond rarity racket is the greatest grift in the history of mankind.
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:36 pm to t00f
5k just out of college, 10k 10 yrs into the workforce, 20k full on successful professional....doesn’t seem that crazy.
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:36 pm to t00f
How an Ad Campaign Invented the Diamond Engagement Ring
In the 1930s, few Americans proposed with the precious stone. Then everything changed.
In the 1930s, few Americans proposed with the precious stone. Then everything changed.
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That invention is surprisingly recent: Epstein traces its origins to the discovery of massive diamond mines in South Africa in the late 19th century, which for the first time flooded world markets with diamonds. The British businessmen operating the South African mines recognized that only by maintaining the fiction that diamonds were scarce and inherently valuable could they protect their investments and buoy diamond prices. They did so by launching a South Africa–based cartel, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. (now De Beers), in 1888, and meticulously extending the company's control over all facets of the diamond trade in the ensuing decades.
Most remarkably, De Beers manipulated not just supply but demand. In 1938, amid the ravages of the Depression and the rumblings of war, Harry Oppenheimer, the De Beers founder's son, recruited the New York–based ad agency N.W. Ayer to burnish the image of diamonds in the United States, where the practice of giving diamond engagement rings had been unevenly gaining traction for years, but where the diamonds sold were increasingly small and low-quality.
Meanwhile, the price of diamonds was falling around the world. The folks at Ayer set out to persuade young men that diamonds (and only diamonds) were synonymous with romance, and that the measure of a man's love (and even his personal and professional success) was directly proportional to the size and quality of the diamond he purchased. Young women, in turn, had to be convinced that courtship concluded, invariably, in a diamond.
Ayer insinuated these messages into the nooks and crannies of popular culture. It marketed an idea, not a diamond or brand:
quote:In its 1947 strategy plan, the advertising agency ... outlined a subtle program that included arranging for lecturers to visit high schools across the country. "All of these lectures revolve around the diamond engagement ring, and are reaching thousands of girls in their assemblies, classes and informal meetings in our leading educational institutions," the agency explained in a memorandum to De Beers. The agency had organized, in 1946, a weekly service called "Hollywood Personalities," which provided 125 leading newspapers with descriptions of the diamonds worn by movie stars. ... In 1947, the agency commissioned a series of portraits of "engaged socialites." The idea was to create prestigious "role models" for the poorer middle-class wage-earners. The advertising agency explained, in its 1948 strategy paper, "We spread the word of diamonds worn by stars of screen and stage, by wives and daughters of political leaders, by any woman who can make the grocer's wife and the mechanic's sweetheart say 'I wish I had what she has.'"
Movie idols, the paragons of romance for the mass audience, would be given diamonds to use as their symbols of indestructible love. In addition, the agency suggested offering stories and society photographs to selected magazines and newspapers which would reinforce the link between diamonds and romance. Stories would stress the size of diamonds that celebrities presented to their loved ones, and photographs would conspicuously show the glittering stone on the hand of a well-known woman. Fashion designers would talk on radio programs about the "trend towards diamonds" that Ayer planned to start. ...
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:38 pm to t00f
1.5ct moissanite engagement ring with vvs1 diamonds around it.
Band was an estate sale order. 1.3ct total old school european cut diamonds in platinum band.
Both look amazing. And not going with a diamond on the stone and instead going with the more fiery moissanite saved me 11k.
Having seen both side by side, a diamond does not compare.
Band was an estate sale order. 1.3ct total old school european cut diamonds in platinum band.
Both look amazing. And not going with a diamond on the stone and instead going with the more fiery moissanite saved me 11k.
Having seen both side by side, a diamond does not compare.
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:42 pm to t00f
Diamonds are the female equivalent to truck nuts.
Posted on 3/8/21 at 9:42 pm to t00f
I gave my wife a family ring. I didn't have to buy shite.
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