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[croemer]

On 1/2/2014 RedHeadedWench said:

First let me say that the prices today are outrageous. I know everything has gone up..but really.

Most of the items I have seen today are just buttugly. Sorry but that's how I feel. I am a stone person..I like a setting that shows off the stone(s)...not all this surrounded by cheap black or white zircon, they add nothing.

Yep...

[Preds]

I love colored stones, but haven't seen anything worth having in a very long time. Most of what I have are set in gold and I have gotten a few set in sterling so that I could "match" certain pieces. I miss the large stone varities that they use to offer. Don't really need anything, but would love to look. Most of my jewelry comes from DH now and I'm not complaining because he sometimes has better taste than I do. LOL DD gave me a Pandoras bracelet last year, so she gives me charms for it.

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I asked this in the other forum. Does anyone know what their ""Premier"" line is and why it's different from their other jewelry? It looks just like their other stuff but more expensive.

[chickenbutt]

I only buy fine jewelry. I go as low as 14k gold but prefer 18k and have some 22k and 24k from over the years. No costume/silver for me.

I also love certain gemstones like GOOD quality Burmese rubies and good quality sapphires (no black sapphires or opaque ones). I love love love good Australian opal and have several great pieces and lots of loose stones.

I don't care for the color green, but I do have some old emeralds from back when emeralds actually used to be emerald green.

But my biggest favs are several of my pairs of gold hoop earrings, my huge opal necklace set in 18k gold, and my 2 pairs of Burmese ruby earrings, also set in 18k gold.

Color me a jewelry snob. That's ok. We all have our preferences, no?

[chrystaltree]

I don't think any adult woman who loves jewelry "settles" for something just because it's on easy pay. We get it, some of you can't afford the things you would love to own because jewelry prices aren't what they were back in the good old days. That's no reason to insult other women or to question the choices they make. Jewelry is jewelry, regardless of the price. A $50 ring can be just as precious and valuable to one woman as a $10,000 ring is to another woman. It can be just as beautiful too! I don't buy jewelry as an investment, I don't buy jewelry expecting that it will appreciate in value, I don't buy it to hand down to my heirs. I buy pieces that I love. I have very expensive pieces in my jewelry wardrobe and I have affordable pieces. I have precious gemstones and I have costume jewelry. I have platinum, gold, silver, bronze, mystery metal. I'll wear a $40 freshwater pearl ring with the $3000 pearl necklace that I inherited from my mom. I'll wear my Diamonique studs with my ultra expensive eternity band that my husband gave me on our 25th. They are all my treasures. I'm not buying much gold jewelry these days, I can afford it. I just choose not to pay current prices for gold baubles. At 53, I have all the "good" pieces any woman could ever want. The jewelry I buy today, and I buy a lot of it, are things I want. When I'm dead and gone, my girls can chuck it all in the town dump, for all I care. It made me happy while I was alive, so it's served it's purpose.

[Shorty2U]

I don't buy myself jewelry except for the occasional earrings. I wear my wedding set on my left hand, my right hand has my anniversary ring and a small sapphire band under it. I also wear my charm bracelet & charms from my children and my Italian coin on a chain my DH got me in remembrance of my dad. I only take these pieces off when I have to. I rotate earrings and add to the other pieces depending where I am going. But those pieces I mentioned above have become a ritual with me and mean a lot to me. So I don't need any more jewelry.

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On 1/2/2014 chrystaltree said:

I don't think any adult woman who loves jewelry "settles" for something just because it's on easy pay. We get it, some of you can't afford the things you would love to own because jewelry prices aren't what they were back in the good old days. That's no reason to insult other women or to question the choices they make. Jewelry is jewelry, regardless of the price. A $50 ring can be just as precious and valuable to one woman as a $10,000 ring is to another woman. It can be just as beautiful too! I don't buy jewelry as an investment, I don't buy jewelry expecting that it will appreciate in value, I don't buy it to hand down to my heirs. I buy pieces that I love. I have very expensive pieces in my jewelry wardrobe and I have affordable pieces. I have precious gemstones and I have costume jewelry. I have platinum, gold, silver, bronze, mystery metal. I'll wear a $40 freshwater pearl ring with the $3000 pearl necklace that I inherited from my mom. I'll wear my Diamonique studs with my ultra expensive eternity band that my husband gave me on our 25th. They are all my treasures. I'm not buying much gold jewelry these days, I can afford it. I just choose not to pay current prices for gold baubles. At 53, I have all the "good" pieces any woman could ever want. The jewelry I buy today, and I buy a lot of it, are things I want. When I'm dead and gone, my girls can chuck it all in the town dump, for all I care. It made me happy while I was alive, so it's served it's purpose.

Clarify. Where do you see anyone insulting?

[chickenbutt]

On 1/2/2014 croemer said:

Notice they never give the gram weight.

That bothers me. I want to know WHAT I'd be paying for and the gram weight is pretty much the crux of that.

I just did a review on a pair of gold earrings I recently got and the first thing I did was to weigh them so I could tell others how much gold is in the piece. Seems like the most rudimentary of information to me.

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Did they stop stating gram weights when they started selling silicone-filled jewelry?

[chickenbutt]

On 1/2/2014 ------ said:

Did they stop stating gram weights when they started selling silicone-filled jewelry?

There probably would be no way to provide a gram weight with that stuff because the weight would include the silicone weight which is, no doubt, much heavier than the super-mega-thin bit of gold that surrounds it.

But it seems like they backed off from gram weights even before that, to a degree. I have seen some weights given - like with their dental floss necklace chains. I've gone to look at a gold chain here and there only to see the weight given at like 1.4 grams. YIKES! 1.4 grams for a whole 18" of length? Hate to say it, but - whatever