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[caroln242]

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@wagirl wrote:

I had a limit on my ring set of $200 in 1975--got one that was $199---not much of one but am/was not a diamond girl anyway---sold it a few years ago and for the gold--got nothing for the stone---which is fine---

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Same here.  It appears diamonds have no resale value.  For my first marriage I got a marquis diamond engagement ring (on our first anniversary, BTW.  He said before he bought a diamond ring, he wanted to "make sure the marriage was going to last".  Guess what...it didn't)  Anyway, after the divorce I went back to the jewelery store where we bought the ring to sell it back to them.  The salesman just took a quick look at it and said he wasn't interested, that it was "scrap".  It certainly wasn't scrap when we bought it!  I took it to a pawn shop after that and got a decent price.

[Harpa]

I definitely got the ring I wanted! I did not want an engagement ring, but only a band with diamonds. The center diamond is princess cut in a raised gallery. White & yellow gold. Absolutely stunning! Clean, but very elegant.

[CritterKeeper]

I have kind of a neat story:

While my (now husband) and I were in college, we saved our loose change and put it in a big glass jug every day. When we graduated we took the money (around $500, I think) to make a down payment on our rings. 

Then we put our rings on 'layaway' and slowly paid them off. 

[faeriemoon]

I've had my rings reset several times.  I'm not particularly sentimental about "things" so when I tire of something, I change it.

I totally understand people who are sentimental about their rings though.