Tungsten... Online or Jewelry store?

The ones online are EXACTLY the same. Jewelery stores have totally insane markups. Buy the one online, as long as their policy allows you to return it if you see fit. Also, even $50 is rather steep for tungsten online. My husband's was about $25.

Yep- the ones online are exactly the same. I bought FH's ring online for $17... and finally found it in a store for $250... It's the EXACT same ring.

But the online store doesn't have to pay sales people, an electric bill for a storefront, etc. They are usually wholesalers who make a killing selling retail to you, but you save a ton!

Buy the one online!

Http://www.titaniumkay.com/Mens-Tungsten-Carbide-Rings-100401.html

bought FH and my band from here for $69.00 each. they are wonderful. titaium kay also has lifetime guarantees.

the jewlery store can charge so much because of that reason...people think that just because it's from online...it isn't superior quality. i beg to differ on most things.

Online!

1) Theres always a chance he may lose it and you would rather have lost $50 then $500.

2) What if he doesn't like that same ring his whole life and wants a different one? Once again, replacing $50 than $500 is a lot better.

3) They are the EXACT same. My fiance went to Jared's to buy my ring (Jared went to Jared's! hehe) and when we went back they wanted 1200 for my band, Robbins brothers wanted 2000, and then we went straight to a manufacturer it was only going to be $500-$600! Point of the story... the stores mark up their jewelry WAY more than they are worth. So it's probably only worth the $50 but they are charging $500.

4) It's tungsten, they can't cut tungsten and resize it anyways, so that 'lifetime guarentee' doesn't mean much.

Your money is going to be his money after the wedding too, so it's understandable he's concerned with how much you spend. If you want to upgrade later on in your marriage, by all means do. So spend your money elsewhere! Hope this helps!

Thank you ladies. That helps a ton. Now I don't feel guilty buying his band online, even though it's what he wanted.

Agreed the ones online are exactly the same as the ones in store. I went to the mall one day and had them take the ones out of the case in the stores. I looked at all the stamps and such on the rings. Then I found the same rings in the mall and again looked at the stampings. Exactly the same. The jewelry stores just put a huge markup on the stuff. My FH loves dragons. I got his tungsten ring for $30. Very beautiful and with celtic dragons. Amazon was a great resource for tungsten and titanium and great prices.

I bought his ring online last night. Paid $20 for it. Free shipping!!! Yay!!

@ Nikki t. I love your FH's ring!! I collect dragons and wanted to incorporate them into the wedding somehow but FH wanted this ring because he wants one that kind of coordinates with mine.

The one I am getting for my FH is on clearance for $39. This is the one I am buying:

http://www.ice.com/rings/wedding-ring-prd_rwx_030046.jsp

My FH bought his tungsten ring online, and we got an awesome deal on it! It is a size 9 and when it arrived its too big, fits over the knuckle perfect but slides off too easily... we went to a jeweler to have his ring finger sized last week so we could go online and order another one... and his finger is a size nine! Something with the way the ring was cut, the jeweler said something about it being "comfort fit". Well anyways we decided to pay about 60.00 more and just order it from the local jewelery store so we don't have that problem again. Just thought I'd share my story, although I think the deals online are really hard to beat!!! Goodluck

@ Betsy H. I had the fear that would happen so I had FH get his comfort fit size. I also found an online store that has an exchange policy if it doesn't fit.

@ Elizabeth H. Very nice! It looks alot like the one I bought for my FH.

Oh good Leyila!! You are prepared!! I didn't even know what "comfort fit" meant. haha!