Oh! I guess I was screwed
Thursday, 17 January 2008 by Jacob TomawA couple years ago when I decided to make an honest woman out of Joscelynn, I traveled to Tiffany’s in Streeterville and said, “Give me the biggest ring you have.” Michelle, my sales woman said, “Uhm, you have cargo shorts and a T-shirt on.” “Oh, right … so … OK then … I like this little one!,” I responded and we went from there. When I found the ring I liked, one of the things I liked was the price. This was not cracker jack ring, but I knew what Jos would have felt comfortable having a reasonable husband spend.
That is all set up to this. A class action suit against DeBeers. Yes. Yes. DeBeers is an awful monopoly, controlling the diamond industry any way they can. To which I hear you saying, leads to higher prices for something that is rather plentiful. And I know, they completely invented the whole diamond engagement ring thing. And of course, they deserve to be taken down a peg.
Should I take part in this class action. It sounds like there is a settlement coming, and this would be easy money for me. Probably a couple hundred bucks. However, I freely paid the price I paid for my token of love. Perhaps the size of diamond I would have bought was shifted down, but the choice to pay what I paid was mine. Is “punishing” the other side of a free exchange after I was previously happy with the trade the right lesson to send Jonah?