Simple platinum wedding band -- am I missing something?

[mrhand]

So the soon to be and I went out looking for a wedding band for me, the man of the house.

We stopped by a few of the brick and mortar rip off places just to see some stuff. I quickly decided that I just want a simple 5mm platinum comfort fit ring. So after searching around I noticed that some places charge more for larger ring sizes which makes sense to me because there is more metal. Others like Blue Nile have a fixed fee.

Can someone explain this discrepancy?

And also, while I expected the B&M stores to be priceier than BN and Whiteflash, I was look at eWeddingRings and thier prices are about 1/3 of BN and WhiteFlash.

Both of these rings look identical. Why the almost 3X price difference???

http://www.e-weddingbands.com/store/product43259.html $314

http://www.bluenile.com/wedding-ring-platinum_349 $980



Thanks

 

[stone-cold11]

That is a Pd band from e-wedding, not a Pt band.

 

[mrhand]

Ah, thanks for spotting that.

http://www.e-weddingbands.com/store/platinumlight.html $752

Comapred to BN and Whiteflash that is about 20% less. I''m assuming that is what BN and Whiteflash probably markup the rings by.

 

[Hest88]

Personally, for a standard platinum band I''d just go with the cheapest price for a comparable ring.

 

[stone-cold11]

Price depends on the alloy and manufacturing process used too.

 

[emeraldlover1]

We ordered our platinum bands from weddingringhotline.com both are 950 PT. I''m not sure why they are so much cheaper but we are very happy with them.

 

[Dreamer_D]

If you are a regular customer of WF they will price match if you request it. I think e-weddingbands.com is great and used them myself. They liekly have a volume discount with the manufacturer.