Engagement Rings . do you want one? (279)
Bogart_1960: The Tradition Of Engagement Rings Is Barely A Tradition At All... Guess Who Started It..
do you need one? .. just love is enough? or an apple?, maybe a lemon? or just the person?.
I don`t know who but i agree!Scam.do you need one? .. just love is enough? or an apple?, maybe a lemon? or just the person?.
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Bogart_1960: The Tradition Of Engagement Rings Is Barely A Tradition At All... Guess Who Started It..
do you need one? .. just love is enough? or an apple?, maybe a lemon? or just the person?.
This was the saddest video I have seen in a long time. To be honest if I really loved the guy it would not matter to a pile of beans if I got a ring. But this was still a sad story.do you need one? .. just love is enough? or an apple?, maybe a lemon? or just the person?.
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Scott1812: I don`t know who but i agree!Scam.
Scott,
i agree with you. pure scam.In an article published on Priceonomics.com by Rohin Dhar, He writes:
"We like diamonds because Gerold M. Lauck told us to. Until the mid 20th century, diamond engagement rings were a small and dying industry in America. Nor had the concept really taken hold in Europe. Moreover, with Europe on the verge of war, it didn’t seem like a promising place to invest.
Not surprisingly, the American market for diamond engagement rings began to shrink during the Great Depression. Sales volume declined and the buyers that remained purchased increasingly smaller stones. But the US market for engagement rings was still 75% of De Beers’ sales. If De Beers was going to grow, it had to reverse the trend.
And so, in 1938, De Beers turned to Madison Avenue for help. They hired Gerold Lauck and the N. W. Ayer advertising agency, who commissioned a study with some astute observations. Men were the key to the market:
Since “young men buy over 90% of all engagement rings” it would be crucial to inculcate in them the idea that diamonds were a gift of love: the larger and finer the diamond, the greater the expression of love. Similarly, young women had to be encouraged to view diamonds as an integral part of any romantic courtship.
However, there was a dilemma. Many smart and prosperous women didn’t want diamond engagement rings. They wanted to be different.
The millions of brides and brides-to-be are subjected to at least two important pressures that work against the diamond engagement ring. Among the more prosperous, there is the sophisticated urge to be different as a means of being smart…. the lower-income groups would like to show more for the money than they can find in the diamond they can afford…
Lauck needed to sell a product that people either did not want or could not afford. His solution would haunt men for generations. He advised that De Beers market diamonds as a status symbol:
“The substantial diamond gift can be made a more widely sought symbol of personal and family success — an expression of socio-economic achievement.”
“Promote the diamond as one material object which can reflect, in a very personal way, a man’s … success in life.”
thats the reality of "Engagement Rings" .. before buying an expensive Diamond Ring .... better think gain!
Sorry Ladies..
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Sawgrasslady: This was the saddest video I have seen in a long time. To be honest if I really loved the guy it would not matter to a pile of beans if I got a ring. But this was still a sad story.
well.. but you get you a full truck of beans, for the cost of the ring..
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The video is specifically about diamonds, it's ok I'd accept a ring with a different stone
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Bogart_1960: well.. but you get you a full truck of beans, for the cost of the ring..
You are funny. The ad said diamonds are forever. A ring I could wear and sigh over. The beans I would have to take home plant and grow to get them to last forever. And hope they did. Both can turn a profit if sold properly. You might be right. In the end the beans would turn a bigger profit. If I could keep farming them and selling them. Truck full of beans it will be then. 
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22W00: The video is specifically about diamonds, it's ok I'd accept a ring with a different stone
no problem. a different stone...basalt .. ?
( i have my helmet on..just in case)
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Sawgrasslady: You are funny. The ad said diamonds are forever. A ring I could wear and sigh over. The beans I would have to take home plant and grow to get them to last forever. And hope they did. Both can turn a profit if sold properly. You might be right. In the end the beans would turn a bigger profit. If I could keep farming them and selling them. Truck full of beans it will be then.
definitely better. good business sense.
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22W00: I'll take the basalt as long as you don't forget the R8 you promised
hey... he...forget about the R8. that was another marketing adv also.
better rollerblade.. they are fun. and good good hearth.
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Sawgrasslady: You are funny. The ad said diamonds are forever. A ring I could wear and sigh over. The beans I would have to take home plant and grow to get them to last forever. And hope they did. Both can turn a profit if sold properly. You might be right. In the end the beans would turn a bigger profit. If I could keep farming them and selling them. Truck full of beans it will be then.
How cool is that!
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Bogart_1960: hey... he...forget about the R8. that was another marketing adv also.
better rollerblade.. they are fun. and good good hearth.
better rollerblade.. they are fun. and good good hearth.
So we've gone from diamonds to basalt and from an R8 to rollerblades...I beginning to think you are a cheapskate!
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22W00: So we've gone from diamonds to basalt and from an R8 to rollerblades...I beginning to think you are a cheapskate!
hey, that was a national secret. you were not supposed to tell. you are in big trouble..... not even Bond can save you... "bondgirl. "
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A tiara. I would like a tiara.
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Kaybee50: A tiara. I would like a tiara.
tiara?.. hum... that movie was one of the worst movies ever made...
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KauriMan: anything for a Princess....
Thank you KM.
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Bogart_1960: tiara?.. hum... that movie was one of the worst movies ever made... vivid imagination there...
I didn't know there was a movie called "Tiara".
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Kaybee50: I didn't know there was a movie called "Tiara".
because it was bad....
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do you need one? .. just love is enough? or an apple?, maybe a lemon? or just the person?.