You mean to tell me they sell junk on the internet? Heavens above, what is the world coming to? Next thing you know someone will say 99% of everything on QVC is crap!

PR spam... Is it real spam, or some advertisement you got from a company you dealt with before?

Because, if it's regular ''mailing list'' advertisement, it's nothing special. Avon, Dell, and several other companied send cheesy ads by e-mail, when you on their list.

If it's spam, then it's probably fraud. There is no way to evaluate if this is real 18k gold from a web page.

Let me get this straight...

You post an article about a ring that anyone who passed third grade would know is a sham, but you won't post about Honda's unwillingness to fix a known problem in my Civic?

Between the countless posts of "insane" amounts of packaging and that, I'm done with consumerist. Maybe we need a consumerist readers blog.

@bob9: Maybe you can start your own blog. With slot machines, and hookers.

@bob9: You do realize they get a lot of email on a lot of issues, right? And they only post what catches their fancy. You're not a unique and delicate snowflake, so don't be surprised when they pass your story up.

Good luck on launching your new blog though.

@bob9: Maybe you can visit consumeristforums.com where you can make any kind of post you want.

@bob9: [consumerist.proboards88.com]

General Consumerist or Consumer Alert

I am voting for 'Protectional' as the badvertising word of the year.

Rose gold's "warm shine suits the color of skin"?

What color is that exactly?

Or am I just underestimating the awesomeness of rose gold's warm shine?

Genuine white agate? Wow. What next, genuine granite? I actually buy a lot of semiprecious gemstones, but I turn my nose up at common, plain agate.

And gold 585 is nothing more than 14 karat, or 58.5% gold.

@92BuickLeSabre: It's a gold alloy made pink by copper.

Trojan and Durex are going to start selling Protectional devices, I hear

Ew... you just gave them free advertising.

White agate!? I have a goldmine in my driveway!!!!!

@bob9: "Bye, bye, Bob!"

What are you talking about? Those rings are sweet. I'm buying one for me and one for my husband. We're gonna look bitchin', and you're gonna look like a tool for not buying one. Fools. All of you!

what a crock of sh*t.

WTH?

Consumerist is starting to act like the local news media. Bob9 makes a valid point.

i dont get it. whats the big deal? its an advertisement.

I like how using the phrase "has a reputation for" is basically a free license to say whatever you want about a product with no responsibility.

For example, according to the wiki article on agate: "In many traditions agate is believed to cure the stings of scorpions and the bites of snakes, soothe the mind, prevent contagion, still thunder and lightning, promote eloquence, secure the favour of the powerful, and bring victory over enemies"

All this from a semi-semi-precious stone!!!!! They should start including these things in first aid kits!

@babaki:
Really. I so agree.

@Christovir: This ring will cure snakebites!?!!? Is it made out of pure Kinoki foot pads?

Both the creative team and the copywriter failed. It makes me want to get out a red pen and a highlighter.

After I read the first paragraph I though "Code Royal" was some sort of Arian Nation jewelry retailer.
White is the color of purity and innocence, of the unbroken light and the absolute truth.

@bohemian: I think their creative team and copywriter are probably the same person. And he works on a ten year old Gateway from his mother's basement.

I love agate, just because it reminds me of Shakespeare: "She is the fairies' midwife: and she comes in a shape no bigger than the agate-stone on forefinger of an alderman..." But I still don't like that ring. :(

@speedwell: Not my skin!

Too tacky even for me.

I'll take three.

"Made in Germany" = Engineered and built with over 200 pieces , where normally two should suffice. (Yeah, I'm looking at you VW)

BTW - Looks like a ring from one of "those" mall kiosks.

Ugly AND expensive!

This really makes me think of those BS "Choose the Right" rings, necklaces, tshirts, condoms, etc.

@NameGoesHere:I would never, ever consider consumerist free advertising. The cost is your company's reputation.

Not just anyone can wear Code Royal jewelry. First you have to pass an ethnic purity test and a ritual spanking.

@ptkdude: Are those something like the WWJD bracelets?

@blondegrlz: Aryan, not Arian. Aryans are the group of people (not necessarily a race) that are theorized to be the speakers of the language we now call Indo-European (in English). Arians (as opposed to Trinitarians) believe that Jesus Christ was a created being and in no sense contiguous with the Father and Holy Spirit.

You always wanted to know that, I can see it in your eyes. :P

@speedwell: oops, my spelling mistake has cost me one history lesson! at least you read my post though, it seems no one does that around here.

@92BuickLeSabre: I think you are :-) Seriously, though... Somebody buys me this crap and they are out the door!

Those are some pretty nasty-looking rings. Like you could use 4 of them to spell out 4 letter words in people's flesh.

@Ben Popken:

No thanks Ben, I've realized the agenda, the same day I submitted my issue was the same day you had posted GM's losses for 07 which clearly has no effect on the consumer .

@B: as a matter of fact, forget the slot machines and the blog!

Most of you won't know this, but neither of those rings currently exist--those are computer 3d renderings off of one of the jewelry-specific CAD programs like Matrix or Artcam Jewelry. (This is true also for many 'photographs' of finished jewelry in print media, too.)

Thanks to CNC milling capabilities, Code Royal probably only needs to know which basic aspects do you want in the design, input it into the program and voila!--instant ring for delivery with no carrying costs of finished inventory, just the raw stock materials needed.

@bob9
agree wholeheartedly. this site has jumped the shark.

@bob9

Hey, I hear ya! But ya know, it was only inevitable. Any time a company has great success and there is Big Money to be made, the Greedy will not sit idly by while watching others become rich. They must and will rise up and seize control - esp. when the previous schemes they bilked profits from are now tanking. And they will choke out the opposition! It has happened to every affluent company on the planet. Microsoft, Google, Best Buy... *cough* umerist.

I heard that these repels tigers... well you don't see any tigers around here, do you?

@dandd: You're on the right track. I love the WWJD bumper stickers on cars parked all crooked. It should read HWJP.

Bah! Every issue of National Geographic I read has an advertisement for the "best watch in the world." Claiming for the price of less than $100 I can get a watch that never needs winding or charging.

This is the perfect accoutrement to my member's only jacket.

Wait a sec, here...

Has everyone missed this quote:
"White is the color of purity and innocence, of the unbroken light and the absolute truth."

This copy has got to be from an overseas vendor, no one in their right mind (in USA) would extol the virtues of 'white' to a product unless they were leaving their local Klan revival...

@dandd: Looks like the other guy never clearly answered this. I'd never heard of "Choose the Right", but Wikipedia has a page on it. Turns out it's a Mormon (LDS) thing.