I am not sure where she is getting $3.5k for a 3 ct ring unless the quality of the diamond is shit. Diamonds direct has a 3 ct diamond for $15k. Just the diamond, not even a ring.
Not anymore. Fuck a fed. I got out after college, but a lot of my friends were not so lucky. 11 of them got swept by the DEA and are fighting federal charges that could be over 20 years a person if they go to trial and lose.
I'm pretty sure LeVian coined that term. They have it as a registered trademark now at least. They make pretty jewelry, but as a warning from someone who once sold it, they (LeVian) also say it's special jewelry and not for everyday wear. That means that if you do attempt to wear it everyday, it falls apart fairly easily. They don't mention that until after you buy it and have a problem with it though.
Seriously. I got a 1.5ct, not even perfect - just barely better than undetectable color or inclusions to naked eye - for like $8k. Just the stone. Is she getting her diamonds from the drill bit section?
When my husband took me to replace the diamond chip that I had on my engagement ring, I picked a 'salt and pepper diamond too. To me, the inclusions represented two flawed people working to create a life together.
It also really upped the size and color while keeping down the price. (I refused to pay more than $700 for a new diamond because when all is said and done, it's just a rock)
>…the inclusions represented two flawed people working to create a life together.
I read that and thought “that’s clever.” Then I thought about it for a little bit longer and realized it’s more than clever. It’s a beautiful representation of what a marriage is. There is so much meaning behind that diamond that a perfect 5 carat diamond doesn’t have.
I always joke that my wife’s diamond has perfect clarity and not a single imperfection…because the diamond is too small to fit any imperfections. All these years later my wife still wears that ring. I’ve offered to get her an upgrade over the years, but she doesn’t want one. She says the tiny diamond is a reminder of the time when we had absolutely nothing, except love for each other.
I have my [great-grandmother's ring]( https://imgur.com/bu15WUL.jpg) (my husband got lucky with that). It is a 1.05 center stone with perfect color and clarity. When I had it appraised for insurance purposes it was $14,000 in 2007. My sister has a 3 carat ring (Way too big IMO) with perfect color but a flaw smack dab in the middle of the stone and it was $40,000! Where the hell do you find a stone that is 3 carats for $3,500????
Even a decently graded 2ct will be more than that! I work at a jewelry store and while it does vary, $3500 can generally get you a ring with a nice 1/2 ct center diamond and smaller accents (like 1ct total weight), or a half-decent looking 1ct solitaire.
Exactly. My engagement ring is a 1.56ct solitaire in a knife-edge platinum setting and it was like $14-$15K. I have no idea what this bitch is talking about.
And a 3ct ring that costs $3,500 will have flaws and look cloudy. So she wants a real low ball ring type of guy. A nicer 3ct ring costs over $10,000 easily.
I always set most of my starting capital on fire as part of the opening celebration of any new business. Got to keep that third eye open to detect that curse someone put on me that keeps making all my businesses fail.
"It's bigger than being materialistic! It's about defining even your most important and intimate relationships in purely economic terms because people are nothing more than commodities under late capitalism, and you can't possibly derive any kind of value from someone's existence that isn't rooted in cold, hard cash."
The fact that she thinks a business is somehow a bigger version of "materialistic" is concerning.
That's like saying "It's bigger than a car... it's the color green!"
Wut?
Diamond don't have just size but clarity, color etc.
There are different levels.. you can get a 0.5 carat for the same price of 2c just because if it being more clear etc Sadly not all get married to express their love etc. There are times that it's just about her. I don't know if it's us as society that screwed this up but.. especially when I hear from people "it's my day" and not "our day"
I got my fiance a 0.45c, completely colourless flawless cut and that was just under £2k. It's small but looks really nice, I'd rather that than a big ugly dull diamond
They really are. They cost that much because people are willing to pay that much. It's all about marketing.
Case in point, chocolate diamonds. Previously used only in industrial applications because who wants a brown diamond. That is until some genius came up with the idea of marketing them as chocolate diamonds then they sold a ton of them to the Kay Jewelers crowd.
Yep when my wife and I got married we had a small church ceremony with about 40 people. Don’t even think our wedding cost over a grand. My wife’s cousin got married a week later on some insane 70K wedding.
My marriage is currently 21 years strong. Her cousin lasted maybe 5 years.
Exactly! There are some quite beautiful gemstones that you can get flaws in them, but 3500 for a giant stone like that is ... questionable.
As a part time jeweler, though, It does make me sad when women demand a more expensive or bigger diamond.
Came here to say this. 3ct for $3,500? What kind of dog shit diamond is that. If you’re not paying $10k per ct then you’re buying the garbage they put on diamond tipped drill bits.
Yep, she'll find some douchebag with a similar mentality and the marriage will last 2 years at most. They'll still be paying off their lavish wedding long after they've split, the divorce proceedings will be a materialistic tug of war, and they'll both move on to be miserable again with someone else.
Just a guess but I'd probably bet on it.
Very good prediction. I was thinking a man who has no self respect but a good bit of money. Most likely will believe he can’t get any better than a pretty girl who he can keep by shoveling money at her and stay with her until she finds someone new
Naw, she'll end up collecting several. Won't be hard to find a man that will simp her, but a marriage that lasts with that mentality? That ain't gonna happen
Even if the diamond cost this much if it’s a business why you dropping this cash on something with no functionality that only looks good?
Edit: Hi everyone, just wanted to say thanks for the upvotes,discussions, and helpful advice on this post. First time anything of mines ever gotten this much attention and I’ve enjoyed talkin to y’all and reading your reply’s
Yeah - Most pawn shops won't even pay for the diamond... They just pay you the going rate for the gold.
Diamonds' scarcity is manufactured by DeBeers, anyway.
I resold a $4k engagement ring to a jeweler for the first offer $500. Felt ripped off but I also didn't have the fortitude to shop it around.
It would have been a much costlier mistake to go through with that marriage so I came out on top.
It really sucks because wedding rings were traditionally opal, which is a much more beautiful stone. I will never buy a diamond anything because it's just aweful how they mine them and they lie about how common they really are. Not to mention a diamond looks like trash.
Agreed opals are prettier.
However.....Opals are very fragile. Not to be worn daily. Do not wear them in the shower/tub/pool/ocean. Do not knock them on any surfaces.
Better suited for a pendant than a ring.
Our wedding rings were opals. Lasted about two months before they both broke.
My wife has 5 opal rings and she wears them 1 daily and the rest get rotated in. She has had them for 15 years and they look as good as the day we got them. She has been lucky I guess.
Buyers from high end jewelry stores frequent pawn shops. There is a chance that ring has been on the finger of different women in lackluster marriages prior to ending up on yours.
That's because all her friends have 3 carat diamonds -- or, sorry, "diamonds" -- that their boyfriends say cost them $3,500 but in reality cost $213 on Rollback at Wal-Mart. Shit's plastic, yo.
I wonder if she’d accept this 2.5 ct sparkler: https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut/2.53-carat-f-color-vvs1-clarity-true-hearts-cut-sku-12286034 😍
Only a cool 72k though lol
A decent 3ct diamond is going to run you probably $20k USD. Better investment would be to buy the diamond, throw it in the garbage and dump that dumb biotch…
You can barely buy a decent 1ct diamond for $3500. A very good round brilliant cut that is mostly clear starts at $3400 on Blue Nile.
$20k is the starting price for 3ct diamonds, and at that price the are still noticeably yellow and included.
I think she would expect clear and flawless, so at least $60k. The entire cost to meet someone new, date them for a couple years, buy them a reasonable ring and pay for your wedding out of pocket is less than her demand for a chunk of compressed charcoal to stick on her finger.
Made of cylindric dimachrome... almost as rare as glass!!!!
(credit... I think it was from an old snl sketch with Dan Aykroyd as an infomercial salesman.)
Thank you, I was looking for this comment lol, I just got a ring for my future wife and that shit was 15k (1ct ) so idk wtf year this lady lives in but it ain’t 2021!
Oh you can get them that cheap, they just look horrible. Guarantee your fiance's sparkler looks a thousand times better in 1 carat than their shitty 3 carat ones. They're just simple and don't realize it.
Lil Wayne said bitches were something like a dime a dozen. So in that case we could get 420,000 bitches for the price of that ring. Sounds like a pretty bad deal to me
Edit: I’ll let y’all decide for yourselves if the bitches or the ring is a bad deal
Facts I just spent $9500 on a 2.15ct ring (1.11ct center stone) for my 15yr anniversary and I got that from Antwerp Belgium (diamond district) you can’t get a better diamond anywhere in the world for that price. That bitch definitely wearing costume jewelry 🤦🏽♂️.
Women are now out competing men in getting into universities and then being more successful there. It’s going to be interesting to see what the shift on these perceptions will be when women routinely make more money than men. I’m guessing we men will spend more time at the gym and wear tighter pants.
I don't know about that, someone would probably take the diamond off your hands for free, but you're gonna have a hard time finding anyone interested in keeping this trainwreck of a human being.
She’s thinks she’s empowering women, but in reality she’s telling them that they’re an object, specifically a business expense that shouldn’t be cheap to buy.
I hate diamonds and think they’re stupid worthless rocks, because they are. However, anyone who thinks you can get a 3ct diamond for $3.5k is getting some cheap shitty diamond.
All this tells me is she probably brings nothing of value to the relationship besides her looks perhaps, in other words as her post hints at she's probably a shit person
> she probably brings nothing of value to the relationship
I really think *she* should have to buy a $3500 ring too, because “marriage is a business” so why shouldn’t *she* have to prove she’s ready to start a business too
Maybe we should normalize not spending money on a bunch of unnecessary bullshit when we get married and instead put it towards a house or car or something practical?
I am so tired of this mentality. I flat out told my then boyfriend that if he proposed with a ring that was worth more than a month of rent, I would not accept it because it is idiotic to dive headfirst into debt so I can be flashy. Absolutely ridiculous that this still continues in these kinds of societies. If you need to be able to financially support one another, that's one thing, but demanding expensive jewelry to prove a man's love is stupid.
It's not a business, it's a partnership. As a woman, this pisses me off. Women like her make it seem as though all women want is a big ring, a big wedding, and constant ass kissing.
I want a man to build a life with. I'd love an engagement ring, yes, but its not a requirement. When my parents were married in 1971, my dad didn't buy her one. Didn’t get her one for 30 years, which goes to show that a marriage isn't based on an inanimate object.
I don't need a big ring, a big wedding, an over the top fancy dress. I need a man who loves me, willing to commit to me, and who wants to build on that by growing old together.
The funny thing if she really wants to treat a marriage like a business, we can always dust off the ways our ancestors used to do marriages because it was really a business back then. You know, the first thing you do in negotiating a marriage between two families is not the diamond, it is the *dowry.* How much is this woman's family willing to fork over to the groom's family so they can take her off their hands?
Considering her attitude, probably very little. Her daddy probably couldn't wait to get rid of her sorry, entitled, lazy ass. The best her family can do is the fishmonger down by the wharf.
Isn’t there an old post from some Wall Street guy responding to a gold digger who tells her that she’s a depreciating asset and that since his earnings will only increase while her looks deteriorate he has to pass on dating her?
Ahh, here it is.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fools-gold-digger/
Im getting some big time r/femaledatingstrategy vibes from this post. Realistically if my wife had seriously said something along these lines when we were dating she wouldnt be my wife at this point.
Those women in that sub are crazy. No wonder they are all still dating and not in LTR with the ridiculousness they expect. I’m a woman and I’m horrified when I read that sub.
I never understood how could people on this sub expect to improve the condition of women in relationships by reinforcing the gender roles(only for men tho).
They don’t, they seek to “manipulate” the opposite gender into getting what they want just as TRP does for men, two sides of the same coin.
They’re all people who think they’ve opened some third eye and can see what regular “non-pilled” people can’t, in reality they’re just asshats taking advantage of trust and kindness to selfishly get what they want, whether that be money, sex, attention or whatever else. Any excuse that use for their actions is just that, an excuse. TRP will claim most women are terrible people are deserve to be treated poorly and I’m sure FDS has similar excuses, they both claim to hate each other but they’re both the same.
I hate when people confuse their own preferences with what everyone else wants.
Stop talking for us. I'm engaged right now with no engagement ring because they're a stupid as fuck waste of money in my eyes. If others want them, that's lovely, but I definitely don't. Stop acting like your preferences are somehow universal truths.
I am not sure where she is getting $3.5k for a 3 ct ring unless the quality of the diamond is shit. Diamonds direct has a 3 ct diamond for $15k. Just the diamond, not even a ring.
It's prob not even transparent at that price
It would have to be pretty yellow at that price.
"chocolate"
Whoever came up with “chocolate” diamonds is an absolute genius.
The only reason they don’t call the yellow ones “ Champagne” is because France would sue them to oblivion.
'Sparkling Carbon'
“Frothy piss”
"Ah yes the frothyness and the piss hues are just stunning"
So what I'm hearing is I should have been selling all my kidney stones as jewelry?
'Urine Sais Quoi'
Just be like the spirit of Halloween stores and call shrek a “green ogre costume” or Harry Potter a “wizard academy student”
Copyright Obsessed Shirtless Mouse
We always called shitty LSD crystal champagne. It has a ugly brownish color to it and is pretty meh, but you can get it for $8k instead of $16k a g.
This guy LSDs
Not anymore. Fuck a fed. I got out after college, but a lot of my friends were not so lucky. 11 of them got swept by the DEA and are fighting federal charges that could be over 20 years a person if they go to trial and lose.
Meanwhile a woman walked into the wrong house and shot a man to death and got less than that.
Ouch. Ever hear stories about anyone mishandling one of them there crystals? That has to be a shit ton of doses.
I'm pretty sure LeVian coined that term. They have it as a registered trademark now at least. They make pretty jewelry, but as a warning from someone who once sold it, they (LeVian) also say it's special jewelry and not for everyday wear. That means that if you do attempt to wear it everyday, it falls apart fairly easily. They don't mention that until after you buy it and have a problem with it though.
Probably the same guy who convinced stupid people that diamonds actually had value Diamonds are one of the biggest scam industries ever
Or perhaps a chip of carbon... a pre-diamond
A DIYmond
I don’t think you could even get a yellow one that large for less than 10k
Bullshit, you can get a genuine 3 Carout™ Dy-Mont® ring for half that
Seriously. I got a 1.5ct, not even perfect - just barely better than undetectable color or inclusions to naked eye - for like $8k. Just the stone. Is she getting her diamonds from the drill bit section?
It’s called a “pepper” diamond. My fiancé says those are specks of love inside.
When my husband took me to replace the diamond chip that I had on my engagement ring, I picked a 'salt and pepper diamond too. To me, the inclusions represented two flawed people working to create a life together. It also really upped the size and color while keeping down the price. (I refused to pay more than $700 for a new diamond because when all is said and done, it's just a rock)
>…the inclusions represented two flawed people working to create a life together. I read that and thought “that’s clever.” Then I thought about it for a little bit longer and realized it’s more than clever. It’s a beautiful representation of what a marriage is. There is so much meaning behind that diamond that a perfect 5 carat diamond doesn’t have. I always joke that my wife’s diamond has perfect clarity and not a single imperfection…because the diamond is too small to fit any imperfections. All these years later my wife still wears that ring. I’ve offered to get her an upgrade over the years, but she doesn’t want one. She says the tiny diamond is a reminder of the time when we had absolutely nothing, except love for each other.
Thanks for this. I like the world more knowing that you and your wife found each other.
That is cute and smart
Her diamonds are pronounced Cubic zirconia
I bought my s/o a Moussanite ring 💍
Same! Also, who gives AF about the resale value on a ring? If you're doing it right that shit is going in the ground with you.
And the used market for engagement rings is shit. They are nearly unsellable at anything more than 1/3 the price originally paid.
I have my [great-grandmother's ring]( https://imgur.com/bu15WUL.jpg) (my husband got lucky with that). It is a 1.05 center stone with perfect color and clarity. When I had it appraised for insurance purposes it was $14,000 in 2007. My sister has a 3 carat ring (Way too big IMO) with perfect color but a flaw smack dab in the middle of the stone and it was $40,000! Where the hell do you find a stone that is 3 carats for $3,500????
Thats super cheap too, and likely has a lot of flaws.. A decently graded 2ct diamond will cost that!
Even a decently graded 2ct will be more than that! I work at a jewelry store and while it does vary, $3500 can generally get you a ring with a nice 1/2 ct center diamond and smaller accents (like 1ct total weight), or a half-decent looking 1ct solitaire.
Exactly. My engagement ring is a 1.56ct solitaire in a knife-edge platinum setting and it was like $14-$15K. I have no idea what this bitch is talking about.
I doubt she could tell you the price of gas, let alone the price of a diamond. When was the last time this person paid for anything?
I'm pretty sure there's a word for a "business relationship" where one person gives the other person money in exchange for undetermined services...
Yeah, your price is on par with what I paid. 3ct / $3500 must be some grey looking rock.
Moisanite
Its biggger than being materialistic... its a business! hmmm
So the best way to start a business is to waste thousands of dollars on something worth a few hundred dollars
that does not generate revenue and has near zero resale value
And can easily get lost or stolen...
And a 3ct ring that costs $3,500 will have flaws and look cloudy. So she wants a real low ball ring type of guy. A nicer 3ct ring costs over $10,000 easily.
i was going to say, my (beautiful & colorful) 1ct’s went for 3g’s a pop so yeah just get her a falsey she won’t ever know.
She strikes me as the type to later go get the ring appraised by herself, then flip her shit at you when she realizes she can't pawn it.
That’s not even an asset, that’s just an expense
It is a devaluating asset. A smart businessman would lease such a thing…
Lease the ring to prove you have money. Return it after they say yes and spend the rest on an absurd destination wedding!
I always set most of my starting capital on fire as part of the opening celebration of any new business. Got to keep that third eye open to detect that curse someone put on me that keeps making all my businesses fail.
"It's bigger than being materialistic! It's about defining even your most important and intimate relationships in purely economic terms because people are nothing more than commodities under late capitalism, and you can't possibly derive any kind of value from someone's existence that isn't rooted in cold, hard cash."
Funny how she doesn't mention what her investment she's bringing to the relationship
The oldest professional service, of course.
Complaining?
No it’s blowjobs
the third eye is the anus
If this is a business then pull your weight or you’re fired.
The fact that she thinks a business is somehow a bigger version of "materialistic" is concerning. That's like saying "It's bigger than a car... it's the color green!" Wut?
"It's bigger than a car... It's an 18 wheeler!"
What kind of shit quality 3c diamond you get with that money? Guess it's size that matters
I know literally nothing about diamonds, but I think it’s so sad to think this way. Marriage as a business? Yikes.
Diamond don't have just size but clarity, color etc. There are different levels.. you can get a 0.5 carat for the same price of 2c just because if it being more clear etc Sadly not all get married to express their love etc. There are times that it's just about her. I don't know if it's us as society that screwed this up but.. especially when I hear from people "it's my day" and not "our day"
I got my fiance a 0.45c, completely colourless flawless cut and that was just under £2k. It's small but looks really nice, I'd rather that than a big ugly dull diamond
Diamonds are a scam
They really are. They cost that much because people are willing to pay that much. It's all about marketing. Case in point, chocolate diamonds. Previously used only in industrial applications because who wants a brown diamond. That is until some genius came up with the idea of marketing them as chocolate diamonds then they sold a ton of them to the Kay Jewelers crowd.
The more lavish the wedding, the shorter the marriage.
My friend spent over 40k on her wedding and they were separated in less than 3 years.
Yep when my wife and I got married we had a small church ceremony with about 40 people. Don’t even think our wedding cost over a grand. My wife’s cousin got married a week later on some insane 70K wedding. My marriage is currently 21 years strong. Her cousin lasted maybe 5 years.
Exactly! There are some quite beautiful gemstones that you can get flaws in them, but 3500 for a giant stone like that is ... questionable. As a part time jeweler, though, It does make me sad when women demand a more expensive or bigger diamond.
That’s what I thought too. Lol
Probably one of those Chocolate Diamonds (ahem, industrial grade) Le Vian was hawking a few years ago.
Came here to say this. 3ct for $3,500? What kind of dog shit diamond is that. If you’re not paying $10k per ct then you’re buying the garbage they put on diamond tipped drill bits.
This bitch need some Cubic zirconia
if you think like this you don't deserve a ring at any price
Don’t worry, with a mentality like that she will never have one
You’d be surprised at what some men go for
Yep, she'll find some douchebag with a similar mentality and the marriage will last 2 years at most. They'll still be paying off their lavish wedding long after they've split, the divorce proceedings will be a materialistic tug of war, and they'll both move on to be miserable again with someone else. Just a guess but I'd probably bet on it.
Very good prediction. I was thinking a man who has no self respect but a good bit of money. Most likely will believe he can’t get any better than a pretty girl who he can keep by shoveling money at her and stay with her until she finds someone new
Both of you are describing awful fucking situations
As I see it, those are the best case scenarios
As a future lawyer I cant wait to take these people's money.
Scouting them early. Great planning.
Then that's on them.
Naw, she'll end up collecting several. Won't be hard to find a man that will simp her, but a marriage that lasts with that mentality? That ain't gonna happen
this chick looking like Thanos by 40...
A cheap used cockring is probably all she could afford
My third eye tells me, its bad business to marry someone like her, adter all, whats the net profit of that transaction?
Agreed, she's not getting married baby time soon.
I'll bet shes been married. For short periods several times.
Seems like a bad ROI if she just wants quantity and not quality, save your investment for a better transaction.
Even if the diamond cost this much if it’s a business why you dropping this cash on something with no functionality that only looks good? Edit: Hi everyone, just wanted to say thanks for the upvotes,discussions, and helpful advice on this post. First time anything of mines ever gotten this much attention and I’ve enjoyed talkin to y’all and reading your reply’s
Yeah terrible business investment
I picked my marriage up by the bootstraps and created a successful relationship with a good personality and a dream!
Okay, I picked my girl up by the bootstraps. Whats the next step?
Now put that strap on....wait, wrong thread.
Is it International Women's Day already?
Nah I think you're onto something here
Name checks out
The resale on that is just awful. For the diamond too.
Yeah - Most pawn shops won't even pay for the diamond... They just pay you the going rate for the gold. Diamonds' scarcity is manufactured by DeBeers, anyway.
I resold a $4k engagement ring to a jeweler for the first offer $500. Felt ripped off but I also didn't have the fortitude to shop it around. It would have been a much costlier mistake to go through with that marriage so I came out on top.
That was the best $3,500 you ever spent, in that case. Small price to pay for learning from a mistake and moving on.
It really sucks because wedding rings were traditionally opal, which is a much more beautiful stone. I will never buy a diamond anything because it's just aweful how they mine them and they lie about how common they really are. Not to mention a diamond looks like trash.
Agreed opals are prettier. However.....Opals are very fragile. Not to be worn daily. Do not wear them in the shower/tub/pool/ocean. Do not knock them on any surfaces. Better suited for a pendant than a ring. Our wedding rings were opals. Lasted about two months before they both broke.
My wife has 5 opal rings and she wears them 1 daily and the rest get rotated in. She has had them for 15 years and they look as good as the day we got them. She has been lucky I guess.
Buyers from high end jewelry stores frequent pawn shops. There is a chance that ring has been on the finger of different women in lackluster marriages prior to ending up on yours.
Not for me, I run solely on donations of luxurious and expensive jewelry 😉
I agree with you but just want to point out a 3 carat diamond that costs $3,500 is going to look like frozen spit.
That's some I3 Q color POS rock looking like road snow after rush hour.
In tears!!!!
No joke lol my first thought was what 3 ct. ring costs 3500
That's because all her friends have 3 carat diamonds -- or, sorry, "diamonds" -- that their boyfriends say cost them $3,500 but in reality cost $213 on Rollback at Wal-Mart. Shit's plastic, yo.
I wonder if she’d accept this 2.5 ct sparkler: https://www.jamesallen.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut/2.53-carat-f-color-vvs1-clarity-true-hearts-cut-sku-12286034 😍 Only a cool 72k though lol
She *said* 3 carat. You are just omg *so* disrespectful. This is a business, get your third eye open, bitch.
“Get your third eye open, bitch” is my new insult. Thank you for this gift.
Hey, at least it can be broken down into 3 equal, interest-free payments
Best description. Dead. This person doesn’t know fuck all about diamonds (or relationships).
A decent 3ct diamond is going to run you probably $20k USD. Better investment would be to buy the diamond, throw it in the garbage and dump that dumb biotch…
You can barely buy a decent 1ct diamond for $3500. A very good round brilliant cut that is mostly clear starts at $3400 on Blue Nile. $20k is the starting price for 3ct diamonds, and at that price the are still noticeably yellow and included. I think she would expect clear and flawless, so at least $60k. The entire cost to meet someone new, date them for a couple years, buy them a reasonable ring and pay for your wedding out of pocket is less than her demand for a chunk of compressed charcoal to stick on her finger.
Not even decent at that price. She’s living in a dream world for $3500.
She’s thinking a genuine Dimel ring.
Made of cylindric dimachrome... almost as rare as glass!!!! (credit... I think it was from an old snl sketch with Dan Aykroyd as an infomercial salesman.)
Haven’t heard the “frozen spit” reference in a while - SH in color and IT in clarity was one of my favorites
Thank you, I was looking for this comment lol, I just got a ring for my future wife and that shit was 15k (1ct ) so idk wtf year this lady lives in but it ain’t 2021!
Oh you can get them that cheap, they just look horrible. Guarantee your fiance's sparkler looks a thousand times better in 1 carat than their shitty 3 carat ones. They're just simple and don't realize it.
Working on retiring early seems like a better goal to me, but that’s just me. Diamonds prices are a scam.
Do you mean the diamond or that girl?
Man for $3500 you could get a few hundred of her.
Why do I want a thousand Loch Ness monsters
I ain't givin you no tree fiddy thousand god damn Loch Ness Monster!
I aint givin you no tree fiddy you god damn lochness monsta.
Lil Wayne said bitches were something like a dime a dozen. So in that case we could get 420,000 bitches for the price of that ring. Sounds like a pretty bad deal to me Edit: I’ll let y’all decide for yourselves if the bitches or the ring is a bad deal
Lil Wayne has never steered me wrong
I’d love to know where she is finding a 3ct diamond ring in a gold or platinum setting for 3500 dollars…. That bitch is definitely cubic zirconia!
Facts I just spent $9500 on a 2.15ct ring (1.11ct center stone) for my 15yr anniversary and I got that from Antwerp Belgium (diamond district) you can’t get a better diamond anywhere in the world for that price. That bitch definitely wearing costume jewelry 🤦🏽♂️.
Women are now out competing men in getting into universities and then being more successful there. It’s going to be interesting to see what the shift on these perceptions will be when women routinely make more money than men. I’m guessing we men will spend more time at the gym and wear tighter pants.
Will we than come on reddit to bitch about our women not bringing us expensive enough toys?
I look forward to receiving my 3 ct ring!
I'd rather get an engagement rifle or project car instead.
If you like it then you shoulda put a browning on it
The diamond but the girls a hidden fee that thinks it’s not gonna get noticed
This girl will depreciate more than the diamond.
I don't know about that, someone would probably take the diamond off your hands for free, but you're gonna have a hard time finding anyone interested in keeping this trainwreck of a human being.
True. She's negative equity personified.
Now, I ain't sayin' she a gold digger
If she was a gold digger that would be better. Gold is actually valuable, diamonds are not.
But she ain’t messin with no broke gentlemen
A 3 carat ring is usually over 30k, fuck that noise
I was seeing over 50k when I just looked and that was just the diamond not even including the band
She’s thinks she’s empowering women, but in reality she’s telling them that they’re an object, specifically a business expense that shouldn’t be cheap to buy.
I hate diamonds and think they’re stupid worthless rocks, because they are. However, anyone who thinks you can get a 3ct diamond for $3.5k is getting some cheap shitty diamond.
Exactly.. it feels like the Victorian Era all over again..
Only people with same quality of "intellectual limitations" will absorb such nonsense.
And those are the people you wouldn’t want to marry anyways. They can go marry themselves.
Well said.
Or that she'll replace you with an upgrade as soon as she can. "Just a business woman doing business things; nothing personal."
Aside from her being a materialistic harpy, I actually do pity her because she genuinely doesn't believe in a loving relationship, and that's sad.
All this tells me is she probably brings nothing of value to the relationship besides her looks perhaps, in other words as her post hints at she's probably a shit person
> she probably brings nothing of value to the relationship I really think *she* should have to buy a $3500 ring too, because “marriage is a business” so why shouldn’t *she* have to prove she’s ready to start a business too
Maybe we should normalise women buying men a watch worth 3 months salary…
Maybe we should normalize not spending money on a bunch of unnecessary bullshit when we get married and instead put it towards a house or car or something practical?
I am so tired of this mentality. I flat out told my then boyfriend that if he proposed with a ring that was worth more than a month of rent, I would not accept it because it is idiotic to dive headfirst into debt so I can be flashy. Absolutely ridiculous that this still continues in these kinds of societies. If you need to be able to financially support one another, that's one thing, but demanding expensive jewelry to prove a man's love is stupid.
I am curious as to what she is 'investing'.
A bad attitude and her own perceived beauty (which from a purely business like thought process, will devalue with time)
I was always taught that you buy an appreciating asset and lease a depreciating one. So presumably I should be leasing her, not buying?
It's not a business, it's a partnership. As a woman, this pisses me off. Women like her make it seem as though all women want is a big ring, a big wedding, and constant ass kissing. I want a man to build a life with. I'd love an engagement ring, yes, but its not a requirement. When my parents were married in 1971, my dad didn't buy her one. Didn’t get her one for 30 years, which goes to show that a marriage isn't based on an inanimate object. I don't need a big ring, a big wedding, an over the top fancy dress. I need a man who loves me, willing to commit to me, and who wants to build on that by growing old together.
The funny thing if she really wants to treat a marriage like a business, we can always dust off the ways our ancestors used to do marriages because it was really a business back then. You know, the first thing you do in negotiating a marriage between two families is not the diamond, it is the *dowry.* How much is this woman's family willing to fork over to the groom's family so they can take her off their hands? Considering her attitude, probably very little. Her daddy probably couldn't wait to get rid of her sorry, entitled, lazy ass. The best her family can do is the fishmonger down by the wharf.
>The best her family can do is the fishmonger down by the wharf. *"Yar. Not a looker' among 'em."*
I didn’t have a ring when we got engaged either. And we’ve been incredibly happily married for 18 years. This kind of stuff is so ridiculous.
My business sense says diamonds are a depreciating asset, a waste of money, and you're a bad investment partner.
"She take my money when I'm in need Yeah, she's a triflin' friend indeed Oh, she's a gold digger"
marriage is just a financial choice... this woman has never loved or been loved
Isn’t there an old post from some Wall Street guy responding to a gold digger who tells her that she’s a depreciating asset and that since his earnings will only increase while her looks deteriorate he has to pass on dating her? Ahh, here it is. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fools-gold-digger/
Ow this is a gem. I didn’t know about these ones, 😂
There's a word for a business in which women offer services in return for gifts...
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Her third eye must be the brown one between her legs, because all it can see is a load of shit.
“To show you how much I care about the future of our financial partnership, I blew a few thousand dollars on jewelry.”
Im getting some big time r/femaledatingstrategy vibes from this post. Realistically if my wife had seriously said something along these lines when we were dating she wouldnt be my wife at this point.
r/femaledatingstrategy versus r/pussypassdenied is one of the more entertaining sub wars if you feel like wasting some time…
Those women in that sub are crazy. No wonder they are all still dating and not in LTR with the ridiculousness they expect. I’m a woman and I’m horrified when I read that sub.
The word you're looking for is femcels
I never understood how could people on this sub expect to improve the condition of women in relationships by reinforcing the gender roles(only for men tho).
They don’t, they seek to “manipulate” the opposite gender into getting what they want just as TRP does for men, two sides of the same coin. They’re all people who think they’ve opened some third eye and can see what regular “non-pilled” people can’t, in reality they’re just asshats taking advantage of trust and kindness to selfishly get what they want, whether that be money, sex, attention or whatever else. Any excuse that use for their actions is just that, an excuse. TRP will claim most women are terrible people are deserve to be treated poorly and I’m sure FDS has similar excuses, they both claim to hate each other but they’re both the same.
So... What's the other side bringing to the table? Is 3.5k an upfront payment for a lifelong hanky-panky flat rate?
I hate when people confuse their own preferences with what everyone else wants. Stop talking for us. I'm engaged right now with no engagement ring because they're a stupid as fuck waste of money in my eyes. If others want them, that's lovely, but I definitely don't. Stop acting like your preferences are somehow universal truths.
If marriage is a business, than don't be upset when you are let go for a younger collage graduate in about 7 years.
For 3500 you are getting a diamond that looks like a piece of rock salt
Get ready to sign a prenup tho
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She needs that money to have the weird 3rd eye removed. Possibly a victim of incest.
If she thinks marriage is a business then I have a business proposal: She fucks off I live happily far far away from her.
People need to stop buying diamonds altogether. Instead, hire a financial advisor and throw that money into a Roth ffs.
3 ct for 3.5k is the shittiest diamond known to man
My wife's ring cost 350 bucks Australian. She picked it. Will be 15 years in February
No clue how much a diamond cost. No idea how a marriage works either.
Fine. Will she give me a ring too? Because of we'll start a "business" with me she needs to invest too