[arthurus]

The impressive thing about a diamond is how expensive it is and where it was purchased. On a less than top 1% woman's hand it says. "look how much he spent on me at Tiffany's!" For the real elite the extra markup is worth not having to mix with the commoners to buy it.

[boatbums]

I agree. I went browsing in a Tiffany’s store and the salespeople looked down their noses at me because I probably wasn’t “dressed well enough” to be seen shopping there. I refuse to buy anything from them no matter how much money I might have. We got a beautiful diamond solitaire men’s ring for my husband in the Cayman Islands and we saved a LOT of money going that route. He only wears it on very special occasions, though.