Your great time is approaching and you need to buy your wedding & engagement ring. First of all, don’t buy the first diamond engagement ring in the first jewelry store see, shop around to compare prices, knowledge and lies. Try to buy a loose diamond, outside a setting, so you can view the diamond better. You’ll select the setting after. Ignore salespeople Jedi mind tricks, like “this diamond won’t be here when you come back.” Why not? It was here when you walked in? It’s highly unlikely of all the rings in there, a buyer will come in the next few days, and buy your wedding ring. This sales tactic is VERY powerful, you must resist it.

There’s a reason for everything and if you don’t buy anything and walk out, it means there’s a better wedding ring somewhere else, for a better price. Ignore the regular car salesman tactics, they tell you that you won’t find it cheaper anywhere else. Simplicity is wisdom.

Visit online jewelry stores and get some idea about jewelry prices. Use those prices as the gauge to against jewelry stores. These quotes will be the standard that others must meet or beat, put up or shut up, money talks, B.S. walks, no more shell games. Without these quotes as a reference, we guarantee you’ll pay too much at the jewelry store and lose thousands. We would not even recommend going diamond shopping without using these sites first. Most people report back to us of their best diamond ring deal was purchasing online.

Normally you don’t walk into a jeweler and say “I have $5000 burning a hole in my pocket, what can I get?”. They’ll take you over to the $5000 rings, when you should have gone to the $6000 rings and talked them down to $5000. Tell them the type of ring you want and go from there. Do not give them a figure of what you are willing to spend. You did your homework before shopping, so you know what type of diamond you want, and whether you can afford it. Do not let the jeweler choose the diamond to fit you budget. You certainly know your budget, you know what diamond you can get, just go get it, and negotiate the price down. When you balk at the price, they’ll tell you the ring adds a lot to the price also. That’s hogwash. Most basic ring settings are worth $300-$500 max, don’t let them fool you with this simple mind trick. You’ll spend more on gas driving around town shopping for the ring, than you will on the ring itself.
Have sparkling time with your wedding jewelry.