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P: 7/26/2007 9:07:14 AM
parkerj Cut Rock Total Posts: 168 Last Post: 7/22/2009 Member Since: 6/25/2007	We found the perfect setting for my 20th anniversary upgrade. Here's the thing: it's an Eli Jewels platinum piece with a halo and pave AND it's 5600. I know that's a hunk of change for a setting. Whiteflash said they could do a similar piece in platinum for 3750!! That's a huge price difference! Eli is handmade and perfect (I've actually had this one on) but the price difference is a LOT. DH says "if this is going to be a piece of jewelry that will be in our family forever, buy the handmade Eli and be done with it. 2000 won't make a difference to your great-great-great granddaughter!" Tell me it's worth the extra $ for the handmade piece that I love. DH is sure, but I'm not.... Oh- and we're still shopping for the center stone--another agonizing decision.
Posted: 7/26/2007 9:07:14 AM

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P: 7/26/2007 9:29:53 AM
jdneal22 Rough Rock Total Posts: 98 Last Post: 7/31/2007 Member Since: 7/18/2007	I would pay the extra money. I hear the people say diamond rings are not invetsments however, they are. they might not be monetary investment...but the are family investments. And if it is exactly what you want...you will eventually ponder every time you look at the ring (if you settle) and say, " man, I should have gotten the ring I wanted". If the budget isn't too small and 5600 doesnt break the bank, GO FOR IT. After 20years...im sure you deserve it!
Posted: 7/26/2007 9:29:53 AM

P: 7/26/2007 9:31:54 AM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	If it were me, and hubby said ok, I'd probably go with the Eli. Not that WF does shoddy work, it's just that I'd hate to see you try to save, only to always wonder if/wish you should have gotten the other... Just a thought! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds." -Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880 "There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things.... The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Posted: 7/26/2007 9:31:54 AM

P: 7/26/2007 9:45:35 AM
angeline Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,942 Last Post: 11/14/2009 Member Since: 7/23/2006	I would go with the one that you have tried on and love. Loving a particlular piece as opposed to a general style might lead to disapopintment if you get it 'reproduced'. At the very least, you will have some nervous moments during the custom process. The WF piece will I'm sure be beautiful too, but there will be differences to the Eli piece (there would have to be, copyright says you can't make an exact copy). So it depends if you would be okay with that, or disappointed. If dh says go for it, and it won't break the bank, then I would do the Eli. My .02c.
Posted: 7/26/2007 9:45:35 AM

P: 7/26/2007 3:35:49 PM
kcoursolle Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,344 Last Post: 10/14/2009 Member Since: 1/21/2006	Do you have a picture of the eli setting? It might help to tell whether a cast setting will get the look you are going for or whether you really need the hand work.
Posted: 7/26/2007 3:35:49 PM

P: 7/26/2007 4:28:55 PM
hanione Rough Rock Total Posts: 29 Last Post: 7/26/2007 Member Since: 3/18/2007	Yes, this ring will be a lovely family heirloom, but you're not buying it for your great-great-great grandaughter--you're buying it for you! This is YOUR ring for YOUR 20th anniversary. $2000 is small change compared to the total price, especially when you know you'll love what you're getting. Whiteflash might do a nice "similar" piece, but you love the one you saw and I think you should go for the Eli. Yay for you!
Posted: 7/26/2007 4:28:55 PM

P: 7/26/2007 4:32:33 PM
Jenn5504 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,166 Last Post: 8/20/2009 Member Since: 5/21/2007	WF is AWESOME, I absolutely love WF. But, I don't think I'd chance a headache of trying to get a custom job just like you want it for $2,000........20 years is worth the extra $2,000. :)
Posted: 7/26/2007 4:32:33 PM

P: 7/26/2007 7:32:48 PM
parkerj Cut Rock Total Posts: 168 Last Post: 7/22/2009 Member Since: 6/25/2007	I think I will buy the diamond online- probably from whiteflash. DH made a good point- you can upgrade your diamond, but you cannot upgrade the setting. (unless you change it completely). I can't wait to get it and put up pictures.
Posted: 7/26/2007 7:32:48 PM

P: 7/26/2007 8:47:47 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Date: 7/26/2007 7:32:48 PM Author: parkerj I think I will buy the diamond online- probably from whiteflash. DH made a good point- you can upgrade your diamond, but you cannot upgrade the setting. (unless you change it completely). I can't wait to get it and put up pictures. I take it this post means you're getting the ELI?! Please do post pics of the finished product! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds." -Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880 "There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things.... The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Posted: 7/26/2007 8:47:47 PM

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