$220,000 Diamond Ring Gets Rave Reviews On Amazon, Sort Of
We're no fans of fake customer reviews here at Consumerist, it's true, but obviously goofy reviews are one of my very favorite things. (The reviews for this gallon of milk are an Internet classic.)
Reader Rob sent us a link to a $220,000 diamond ring for sale on Amazon...marked down from only $338,800. Bargain!
Item tags include: "awesome," "diamonds," "rock-on," and "grocery store rendevous." Wait, what?
This is my favorite of the reviews:
When my girlfriend subtly added this to her wishlist, I have to admit I had my doubts. Not about the marriage — no, I love this woman and WILL make her my wife now that I know she wants me "that way". No, I had doubts about buying a ring online. I don't know a lot about diamonds, but it looked a little more "blingy" than the pieces at Sears, which I had been regularly browsing on my breaks since meeting her at Hot Topic. Sure I buy car repair manuals, action figures, knives, and prescription drugs on-line — but never something as precious as jewelry for the finger of my soul-mate. What if it didn't fit? Would I send her finger to Jeff Bezos? He wouldn't want that....
Without a credit card of my own, I knew I would have to do things differently and "think outside this box" if I wanted to win her heart and give her the ring of her dreams. Was I sure, really sure, I wanted to do what was necessary to secure $338,800.00 in cash to send to Jeff Bezos in exchange for this ring?
Friends, my doubts were eliminated completely when I saw that the ring of the dreams of the girl of MY dreams was so dramatically discounted thanks to Amazon's low-low prices! I knew Amazon offered the best prices in town on authentic reproduction movie-set quality knives from films such as Predator II and TV's Heroes, but when I saw that this ring was normally $338,800.00 and that it was bargain basemented to the rediculously low-low price of $118,800.00 I knew immediately that this was roughly 40%. Plus free shipping!? Watch your mail Jeff Bezos, what a bargain!
I'm not impressed with the free Super Saver shipping—for that much, I want someone to personally drive it out to me from Seattle, nestled on a silk pillow in the backseat of a Town Car.
Platinum Radiant Cut 3-Stone Diamond Ring w/ Trapezoid Sidestones [Amazon]
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@jonthomasdesigns: Ditto, I was laughing my ass off by the time someone complained it wouldn't hold a charge and he had trouble accessing his E-mail with it.
T@SpaceBatCowboy_GitEmSteveDave: They also sell sex toys! So after you buy her the ring, buy some sex toys cause you know that you're going to get some freaky monkey sex! I mean, she has to! You just spent $220,000.00 on a ring for her, the least she can do is give it up right? Amiright or amiright?
@jonthomasdesigns:
and when go to the above linked page, it says "1 new or used available from $2500 + shipping."
@SpaceBatCowboy_GitEmSteveDave: Yes, there are knives on heroes. At first you think they're cool, but they tend to be over used, and never how they're prescribed. Then, when you think the knife has been lost or discarded, it mysteriously pops back up, this time for the good of the cast, but shifting allegiances more often than the cast switches wardrobes.
I don't know if any of you guys have seen this one - it is some dudes review of the book 'The Secret'. Brilliant!
@Xkeeper:
Oh that is funny. I emailed that link to myself. I'll play with it when I get home tonight.
@alarmpro: Comes in a pocket sized non-shielded "tin" can, so it can keep my privates warm!
I absolutely love this first comment from it:
Picked this up for use in one of my kid's 'diversity' projects in school (Great Success!), and stuck the leftovers in the cabinet next to the baking soda.
Ran out of toothpaste, and remembered how you're supposed to be able to use baking soda to clean your teeth, so of course, I accidentally used this instead, and Wow! all I can say is, my teeth have never been cleaner! They sparkle, they tingle, and for some reason, they STAY clean now, no matter what. Highly recommended!
However, when I ran out of that fire-ant killer powder stuff, I figured I would try some for that too.
Big mistake!........-----cut----
@Skankingmike: Could have bought the plastic and glass version of that ring at HOT TOPIX!
$200,000 ring? You just gave her a way to have an affair with the pool-boy.... Juan. Run away with him, financing her romp on the wild side with that one ring. But hey, you will never know, not working those 4 jobs for the next 12 years to pay off the ring.
I "Juan" to thank you!
I work in luxury transportation. It is incredibly depressing to know that a hideously expensive piece of jewelry on a silk pillow from Seattle to new york is neither the weirdest (though it might be close) nor the most expensive trip I've personally seen. (Even more depressing: Probably 75% of the people we book rides for are finance execs. And yes, they do things as bad as this in the current economy.)
@RandomZero: Well now I want to know what the weirdest and most expensive trip you've ever seen is..
@korybing: Bingo... that is what my wife said... Ring... screw the ring get me a Harley, at least I can ride it too.
Weirdest? well, a massively expensive piece of jewelry I can sort of understand getting the white glove treatment. Phones, glasses, and newspapers, all of which I've booked rides to courier? Not so much. especially not at about $100/hr, with a minimum of more than an hour.
Most expensive would probably be the guy who wanted to go across Europe and back. This would've been a two-day trip before accounting for rest stops, the meter running the entire time, plus lodgings and a very generous meal allotment for the chauffeur. (And our european affiliates are rather commonly $150+/hr.)
@SpaceBatCowboy_GitEmSteveDave: Yes, i get the reference, but it's worth noting I HAVE had passengers get rather upset when they find out after the fact that they have to pay to detail the car after smoking up in it.
I'll remind you that most of our clients are financial executives on business trips. Maybe you can see why I'm not so surprised at the current state of America's economy.
@alarmpro:
"Customers who bought this item also bought:
Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
Forbidden Lego: Build the Models Your Parent Warned You Against!"
*whimper*
@mizmoose: Mine isn't showing the Lego book, but I looked that one up and now totally want it. And the library has it so I can examine it from there first for free. Yay! So glad you mentioned it.
I swear to only use it for peaceful purposes. ;)
We already own all the Futurama DVDs, and I bet my husband has the computer programming book on his shelf. But I have no desire to buy uranium!
@SpaceBatCowboy_GitEmSteveDave: I think you're right!
I was actually drinking a glass of milk (sadly, not Tuscan) when I started reading the amazon reviews. The milk poem in the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" had me in tears!
Off topic but I am a jeweler and that ring is overpriced and mis-described. GIA stones have reports not certificates. That ring could probably be bought from a brick and mortar store for $60,000.00 less than what they are asking for it. A similar stone is on Blue Nile for $140,000.00. Amazon isn't always a good deal.





















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