It''s kind of rude when..........

[Veronika]

Sometimes, when I wear some of my nice REAL jewelry......diamonds, gemstones ect........people comment on it. They usually say oh that''s really nice is it real? Does anyone else find this rude?

Post your thoughts!

 

[sumi]

It certainly tells you a lot about the person asking the question, doesn't it? Perhaps many of their pieces are fakes?

 

[tawn]

If someone asked that about my wedding ring...I think I'd be upset!

But, I know I asked my girlfriend if her right hand ring was real...(2ct ~ Her hubby was playing Professional Baseball at the time!) Her ring was real, but she then pointed out to me that her gorgeous earrings were fake!

Of course, they might just be asking if they are real because they are thinking about robbing you of your sparklies!

 

[Nicrez]

This just happened to me yesterday!

I had on the diamond earrings the Boy got me, and when meeting up with a (slighly competitive) old friend, she smiled with this little knowing smile, and said, "hey nice diamond earrings..." expecting me to say, "yeah, they are fake..."

I just sort of blushed, looked down and thanked her and said, "Oh they were a gift from the Boy..." She looked none too pleased, as I think she got a bit jealous, not hearing how fake they should have been...

I loved showing her my engagement ring...

I don't think much that I wear is big enough to be considered "fake"...LOL

 

[diamonddelux]

Well I don't know, I have a 1.5ct diamond...hahahaha
And people often mention how beautiful it really is.
Many people actually fawn over it. It is really beautiful....to bad it is a fake CZ. Anyway some people even ask me what it must have cost. Knowing full well my sister in law wears a real full ct in platinum, round cut, extremely gorgeous, I tell peopl mine cost about $40,000 cause I know hers cost around $60,000. I've even had people wanting to try it on, so I have let them. I don't make a big deal about it. The only real diamong I own is my engagement ring and wedding band and those diamonds are the cheapest things I've ever seen. Tiny little 5pts. No big deal, I never got married for money the first time. But, for the second, if there ever is one I will make sure I warez a rock (princess cut) accentuated with Emeralds and Rubies. But the dream is still to find a rare red diamond. I've actually seen one in person too. Amazing, simple breath taking..

 

[pyramid]

If your sister-in-law has a 1 carat diamond which cost $60,000 she was definitely taken by the jeweller. Even a 1 carat, D, Flawless would not cost that - would it?

Oh, diamonddelux nice to meet you

 

[MichelleCarmen]

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On 5/9/2004 6:47:15 PM pyramid wrote:

If your sister-in-law has a 1 carat diamond which cost $60,000 she was definitely taken by the jeweller. Even a 1 carat, D, Flawless would not cost that - would it?----------------

These are Canadian prices it appears, but still I would agree that this amount seems A BIT steep for a one carat even based on the Canadian dollar (lol)! (and personally if someone told me they spent 40K on a 1.5 carat, I'd wonder if the stone was real as this price does seem highly unbelievable and it'd seem something was fishy with this story

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Michelle

 

[Shay37]

Okay, two stories. Long before I upgraded, I was visiting the parents back in my hometown. A girl who had been a friend of my younger sister's saw me in the store and asked to see my ring. I was proud to show it off (always was, always will be). She took one look at it, dropped my hand as if it burned her, and said "mine's bigger." My mouth was still on the floor when she said that it was also fake and that's why she never wore it. To this day, I don't know what I should have said to her.

Second story concerns friend who was with me the night we met our husbands. She's always been overly concerned with material possessions. (demanding they be acquired no matter what the cost) You note the foible and go on. I have my faults too. Last year, she came up to visit. She was full of digs and petty garbage that friend or not, I didn't appreciate. We were in the kitchen making snackies, and she grabs my hand and says that she can't believe that I got a bigger diamond than she did. Now there are a lot of ways that you can take a remark like that, none of them is very nice. I didn't say much at the time, hmmm...haven't said much since, either. Threw away the address, phone number, and blocked sender on my e-mail. Had that been the only crack, I could have just dismissed it. It wasn't even the first that weekend in a long line of them.

Oh, well, live and learn I guess.

Shay

 

[verticalhorizon]

Those are terrible stories.

I wonder how my GF will react if people give her grief over her e-ring. It was smaller than I had intended/budgeted, but I couldn't say no to the cut (Jubilee).

Personally, I would just shrug off the odd comments and be like, "Whatever." But I worry about the GF. She's not materialistic, doesn't wear any jewelry now, but I still worry.

 

[foundnemo]

Yes - rude, tacky, however you call it. Some people are like that, unfortunately, just don't mind them. I'd say "what do you think?" and torture them with their curiosity.