Average price of an engagement ring?

Originally Posted by ErinKathleenNJ

He didn't pay 12k--not nearly, but that's what they were selling it as.

I said NOT nearly 12k. Read it. I was simply relaying what I had learned on the prices of diamonds. I didn't say charging that much was right, that $12,000 is the bottom line.

Nor was I whining about the wedding. I'm sorry if you (or anyone for that matter) saw it that way. Seriously. All I wanted was some advise from other people, not sympathy.

[mu_agd]

Originally Posted by ErinKathleenNJ

I said NOT nearly 12k. Read it. I was simply relaying what I had learned on the prices of diamonds. I didn't say charging that much was right, that $12,000 is the bottom line.
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Isn't not nearly 12K something around 11.5K? I don't see how saying "not nearly" means much less.

Originally Posted by mu_agd

Isn't not nearly 12K something around 11.5K? I don't see how saying "not nearly" means much less.

Not the way I see it. "Not nearly" means it is not anywhere near 12,000. I would think that 11.5k is very near 12,000.