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"Please return your fiance to her original upright position."

Who thinks of this ####? :lmao:
I despise the commercial where it seems acceptable for women to drag their boyfriends around to go engagement ring browsing even though he hasn't proposed yet. How whipped does a guy have to be to put up with that?
one of my cousins through marriage was dating a girl who constantly posted pictures of engagement rings to her Facebook profile to try and put the pressure on. Anyone want to guess how that turned out for her?
One of my wife's friends found an antique engagement ring in a dead relative's estate, and decided to just put it on. They'd been dating for years, and she said, I'm going to wear this around. If you want to explain to people that it's not really an engagement ring, that's fine.
 
"Please return your fiance to her original upright position."

Who thinks of this ####? :lmao:
I despise the commercial where it seems acceptable for women to drag their boyfriends around to go engagement ring browsing even though he hasn't proposed yet. How whipped does a guy have to be to put up with that?
one of my cousins through marriage was dating a girl who constantly posted pictures of engagement rings to her Facebook profile to try and put the pressure on. Anyone want to guess how that turned out for her?
One of my wife's friends found an antique engagement ring in a dead relative's estate, and decided to just put it on. They'd been dating for years, and she said, I'm going to wear this around. If you want to explain to people that it's not really an engagement ring, that's fine.
"I'm going to go have sex with lots of women we know, and if you want to then explain to people that it's really an engagement ring, that's fine, too."

 
"Please return your fiance to her original upright position."

Who thinks of this ####? :lmao:
I despise the commercial where it seems acceptable for women to drag their boyfriends around to go engagement ring browsing even though he hasn't proposed yet. How whipped does a guy have to be to put up with that?
one of my cousins through marriage was dating a girl who constantly posted pictures of engagement rings to her Facebook profile to try and put the pressure on. Anyone want to guess how that turned out for her?
:hey: He went to Jared?

 
"Please return your fiance to her original upright position."

Who thinks of this ####? :lmao:
The pitch starts with a goal. They're trying to associate something with their brand, but they have to position their product in a way that the association is obvious and assumed, because people will believe what they infer more than what they're told.In this case, the product is a gift, so there are two markets - the giver and the receiver. The gift receiver, usually female, wants to believe that the gift is something she wants. The gift giver, usually male, wants to believe that his gift will lead to something he wants.

The gift receiver is led to believe that she's no longer in an upright position because she's been swept off her feet. A sympathetic female flight attendant emphasizes the romantic gesture and announces it for the whole plane to hear.

The gift giver is led to believe that she is no longer in an upright decision for a different reason. Why did she go down? Was she fully prone? She doesn't seem to be upset that they're in public, and that the attractive female flight attendant is watching.

So while the commercial is ridiculous, the message is clear - women, you have to wait for a man to give you expensive jewelry to be swept off your feet, and men, giving that jewelry will lead to sex. It's the same pitch that they've been using forever.
They better not check into the iDating thread, because tons of dudes over there are bagging chicks left and right without so much as buying these chicks a pack of chewing gum let alone a diamond.

 
"Please return your fiance to her original upright position."

Who thinks of this ####? :lmao:
I despise the commercial where it seems acceptable for women to drag their boyfriends around to go engagement ring browsing even though he hasn't proposed yet. How whipped does a guy have to be to put up with that?
one of my cousins through marriage was dating a girl who constantly posted pictures of engagement rings to her Facebook profile to try and put the pressure on. Anyone want to guess how that turned out for her?
One of my wife's friends found an antique engagement ring in a dead relative's estate, and decided to just put it on. They'd been dating for years, and she said, I'm going to wear this around. If you want to explain to people that it's not really an engagement ring, that's fine.
:lmao:

 
Just saw a Kay commercial on ESPN, following a Russel Stover's chocolate commercial where the guys in the commercial made it seem like they were going home to face off with a PO'ed Andre the Giant if they didn't bring chocolate. But I digress, the Kay commercial was what it was, but ended with their foray into the Twitter-verse with #EKBWK at the end :X

Anyone who uses that hashtag in a picture tomorrow should be sterilized.

 
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I'm guessing Jared/Kay/mall are no place to buy an engagement ring. Where do you go to spend 3 months salary on a lifetime symbol of your love and commitment? Amazon? Pawn shop? Girlfriend's family business? What is the FBG move here?

 
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I'm guessing Jared/Kay/mall are no place to buy an engagement ring. Where do you go to spend 3 months salary on a lifetime symbol of your love and commitment? Amazon? Pawn shop? Girlfriend's family business? What is the FBG move here?
Learn the 4 C's, buy the rock online at Blue Nile or similar, get it set at a good local jeweler.
 
I'm guessing Jared/Kay/mall are no place to buy an engagement ring. Where do you go to spend 3 months salary on a lifetime symbol of your love and commitment? Amazon? Pawn shop? Girlfriend's family business? What is the FBG move here?
Learn the 4 C's, buy the rock online at Blue Nile or similar, get it set at a good local jeweler.
Negotiate down 30%. Then offer to pay cash and try to get another 10%

Do not go to a Jared/Kay/Mall as they don't have the flexibility to negotiate as much. A small business or local jeweler who makes their own rules can do a lot better.

 
I'm guessing Jared/Kay/mall are no place to buy an engagement ring. Where do you go to spend 3 months salary on a lifetime symbol of your love and commitment? Amazon? Pawn shop? Girlfriend's family business? What is the FBG move here?
Learn the 4 C's, buy the rock online at Blue Nile or similar, get it set at a good local jeweler.
Negotiate down 30%. Then offer to pay cash and try to get another 10%

Do not go to a Jared/Kay/Mall as they don't have the flexibility to negotiate as much. A small business or local jeweler who makes their own rules can do a lot better.
My wife wanted a Sapphire engagement ring. Being a woman, it's obviously not as simple as that. It had to be "unheated and untreated" which is some ridiculously small number of sapphires, and she wanted GIA certified to make sure this was the case... and VERY few sapphires are that.

ANYHOO... I found a number of loose gem wholesalers (probably many more who do diamonds) in NYC - they will mail rocks to you (obviously they need to have some security in this) but I was able to go on in. Some of the places are very nice, some are like back office holes in the walls filled with gajillions of dollars in gems.

I'll try to find the name of the place we ended up getting it from as they were great, but more a hole in the wall aesthetically (like taking a freight elevator up in some building across from 30 Rock).

FWIW, the cost of the ring was probably half, maybe even less than half of pure retail. We had them set it because they happened to have a perfect band, but had planned on doing that locally.

 
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"Please return your fiance to her original upright position."

Who thinks of this ####? :lmao:
I despise the commercial where it seems acceptable for women to drag their boyfriends around to go engagement ring browsing even though he hasn't proposed yet. How whipped does a guy have to be to put up with that?
one of my cousins through marriage was dating a girl who constantly posted pictures of engagement rings to her Facebook profile to try and put the pressure on. Anyone want to guess how that turned out for her?
One of my wife's friends found an antique engagement ring in a dead relative's estate, and decided to just put it on. They'd been dating for years, and she said, I'm going to wear this around. If you want to explain to people that it's not really an engagement ring, that's fine.
HOly hell.. this is ridiculous. Both those women would be on the damn curb.

Buddy has had this one chick HOUNDING him over a ring for about 5 years now. She's just looking to mooch, been following him around the country (He's military Intel) for half a decade. Keeps setting deadlines for him to propose.

Last year he left for a 6mo deployment overseas and said he wasn't paying rent in VA as well...was going to save some cash. She was furious he wasn't going to pay her rent while he was gone (She's a "part time masseuse"). Had to move home with mom and dad for 6 months.

He got back and took her to puerto rico or something... she immediately changes facebook profile to ENGAGED.

Turns out he's never proposed... there is no ring. He just finally said "You can put it on facebook if you want" :lol:

 
I'm guessing Jared/Kay/mall are no place to buy an engagement ring. Where do you go to spend 3 months salary on a lifetime symbol of your love and commitment? Amazon? Pawn shop? Girlfriend's family business? What is the FBG move here?
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I'm guessing Jared/Kay/mall are no place to buy an engagement ring. Where do you go to spend 3 months salary on a lifetime symbol of your love and commitment? Amazon? Pawn shop? Girlfriend's family business? What is the FBG move here?
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Marry a gal who realizes it is in neither of your interest to spend that much on a ring when, usually, you need to save for the honey moon, starting a life together, a house...

Then do your research and go to a wholesaler, get a ring for one months salary that would be three months salary full retail.

 
Or just don't tell them where the ring came from. I think of all the people that get married every day. And all the people that get divorced. And all the people that die. Where do all those rings go? I hear of some rings being handed down through the generations but for the most part...I think they get sold.

Thinking there must be a glut of rings in pawn shops, on ebay, etc

 
And didn't buy a thing. Man, are they expensive! I've always thought (known?) jewelry had a heck of a mark-up... Anyone have luck negotiating these things, they seemed pretty stubborn. In fact, they let me walk. So I did.

 
Go to Yelp and find a good local mom & pop shop. Never, ever shop at Jared's or Kay or anything like it.

 
I dont buy my wife jewelry. It's ridiculous. For Christmas, I bought my wife a monthly sausage and pork subscription from a local salumeria.

 

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