OT Engagment Ringz

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EL PRESIDENTE

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What's a good place to cop in PDX?

I guess you have to buy diamonds and settings differently?

Blue Nile any good?
 
I'll probably go to Shane company to peep. Maybe Costco too but may have to get a different setting.

Pawn shops don't pay for gems, only gold weight. So you can get a very nice ring at a great price. You're Asian so you're naturally good at dickering/negotiating.

Gold is the most recycled thing on earth so don't worry about buying used. More than likely you have gold that is very used, like hundreds of years old.
 
I had our rings made by an artist...white gold, phoenix and dragon bands...was reasonable and they're one of a kind. Didn't do the engagement ring thing...only the wedding rings..you could ask if the gender "still yet to be unveiled" partner prefers a diamond nipple stud or something
 
Pawn shops don't pay for gems, only gold weight. So you can get a very nice ring at a great price. You're Asian so you're naturally good at dickering/negotiating.

Gold is the most recycled thing on earth so don't worry about buying used. More than likely you have gold that is very used, like hundreds of years old.
as long as you don't mind the inscription saying...love Lester from Dot....unless that's actually their names
 
Hell man! Ask her where to go. Why ask some dudes in Portland?

I'm going to buy in PDX to save on sales tax. I think down here I can not pay sales tax if I pay cash tho, depends.
 
I'm going to buy in PDX to save on sales tax. I think down here I can not pay sales tax if I pay cash tho, depends.
You can avoid the sales tax in LA but the ring will be on a black velvet covered piece of cardboard in the trunk of a Buick El Dorado
 
Pawn shops don't pay for gems, only gold weight. So you can get a very nice ring at a great price. You're Asian so you're naturally good at dickering/negotiating.

Gold is the most recycled thing on earth so don't worry about buying used. More than likely you have gold that is very used, like hundreds of years old.

I know a few settings she likes, they are all new. Main dealer is at Kassab for the brand.

I think the whole thing is a scam, personally so not gonna go buckwild. I have already knocked her expectations down a carat. She tried some on, and everytime I tell her in front of the salesperson it looks freakishly big.
 
My paternal grandfather was a silversmith for Barnum and Bailey Circus from the 1930s onward till his last days...he made rings, bracelets, charms, etc.
 
Cracker Jack
You made me think of a trinket maker I met once. Well actually he was a customer of mine in the 60s. I installed an accounting machine, you might call it a small computer. I programmed it for him to inventory control and cost analysis. Damnedest thing I had see up to that point, we are talking about trinkets. Actually Cracker Jack toys. That is what this guy made. Costs was in the .01 and sales value was in the .2 range. Intriguing!
It was a nice run over there though, his place was just on the edge of Bend, on Century drive. Lovely place, Intriguing business, smart dude. Rich on a shifting a decimal point.
 

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