Comments on: Secrets shhh

By: Sophie

Sophie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:58:33 +0000

Thats it! After much agonising over whether to part with a few thousand $$ for a diamond ring, I’ve decided to go for a Shh Secrets ring. Why should we put ourselves into debt just so we can spoil ourselves every now and then? I think the diamond industry is rich enough without me adding to their wealth!!

By: Tracey

Tracey — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:25:48 +0000

I have a secrets ring that I purchased as my engagement ring I see it simply as a choice. I chose to have the best ring and enough left over to put a back deck on my house. As I sit on my back deck with the sun glinting on my extremley impressive engagement ring I know that I have chosen wisely

By: Administrator

Administrator — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:44:21 +0000

http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html Good luck Jessica. Wishing you much happiness…

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:41:15 +0000

Hi there
I have been telling everybody about this great store and their beautiful “diamonds.” I took my sister and best friend in there too to show them. You can get the most amazing rock that looks no different from a real diamond for a fraction of the price. And as an engagement ring i’d be more than happy to wear one of their rings…BUT…i am really torn between a much more affordable ring from Secrets or the design i’ve fallen in love with worth around $5000. Its THE ring for me, so beautiful. If Secrets could make my design I would not hesitate. I am considering possibly buying a diamond earing from Secrets and using that diamond to get my ring made somewhere else. Has ayone ever done that? My boyfriend just wants me to be happy, so he’ll spend more money for the real diamond if I want, (its the DESIGN i love, not about the diamond) but we could definitely use that money on the wedding or honeymoon. I would appreciate any advice.

By: Nicky

Nicky — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:05:27 +0000

Hi there,

My partner and I decided to wed in private over our december holidays, and after i dragged him around to multiple jewellers, i remembered seeing a secrets catalogue whilst flying jetstar. I suggested we go and check them out, needless to say within 30mins of arriving at the store i was ordering my engagment and wedding band set. I think they are gorgeous, and there is room to get a matching eternity band for christmas next year
I think a lot of the responses to this article have raised the most important point that its not what you spend, its how committed you are to one another. I know id prefer to have a simulated diamond and a loving partner than have a 20K ring and be dating someone who treated me poorly.
If people ask me I will probably tell them it is not a “real” diamond, but considering my mother wed my father with an emerald ring, im sure no one will care

By: Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:31:45 +0000

Hi Sharna,

Thanks for the comment - the success of the business suggests you are right and I was wrong. I guess I had taken a male perspective on it. I’ve certainly learned a lot reading through what people have said. What I would still like to see is some positive story about the product rather than ’saves money’.

I actually think it says a lot about the brilliant ingenuity of humans in replicating something that nature takes a couple of billion years to form and push to the surface of the earth. It says something wonderful about science.

By: Sharna

Sharna — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:08:58 +0000

For all you people out there that think that girls wont tell there friend about Secrets Shhh you are totally wrong. My best friend got her engagement ring from there and is going back to get her wedding band as well. She has told everyone and any one about this great store. And upon her recomandation me & my partner are taking the hour and a half drive to check this store out.
I can vouch that if she didn’t tell me it wasn’t man made I wouldn’t know. Its actually better quality then a lot of the other rings I’ve been trying on lately for a fraction of the price.
Times have change, with rising cost of houses and everyday living more and more people are looking to save a buck or two. I don’t know about anyone else but if my partner spent $20 000 on an engagement ring I would lose the plot. Thats a deposit for a house. I would also be so scared of losing it and would not want to wear it in public. this way he spends a fraction of the price and if I lose it I wont be so worried. Sure it will have alot of sentimental value but it wouldn’t feel like I’ve just lost the winning lottery ticket

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:19:53 +0000

This has made for great reading! i find it all very interesting as i too have a Secrets e-ring and wedder set. when my husband and i got engaged we could only afford a very modest ring and my husband, as many do, promised that we would upgrade. well, a couple years later i stumbled upon Secrets and was truly amazed! i dragged my husband in there and snapped up a beautiful 1 carat solitaire ring and matching eternity ring that i also wear as a wedder. i am more than happy with my pieces, am always being told how beautiful they look and “what a lucky girl’ i am, noone has guessed that they are not real. as someone else pointed out, these are diamonds, they are just man made ones. i recently went back to my home town for a visit and all my old schoolfriends were green with envy over my rings with one commenting “you can tell its real by the way it sparkles” i let them think what they wanted. i think that Secrets are great value for money and just because my husband didnt spend something rediculous like $50k doesnt mean he’s not committed to me. for those who only think a real diamond ‘will do’, get a life please!

By: Ciara

Ciara — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:35:30 +0000

Hello to Everyone and thanks so much for your helpful comments.

My boyfriend and I have just decided to get married. A friend of mine who is doing her masters in sociology on diamond trading mentioned sssh secrets to us. After researching the dimond market extensively , she herself said that she would never buy or accept a diamond as a gift. According to her research, the entire industry has been carefully controlled and manipulated by a few large diamond companies.
She brought up an interesting question of why diamonds are such a status symbol and a symbol of enternity. She would argue that it is only because they have been marketed to mean that to us.
I am proud to say that I will be the second of my friends to have a lab created diamond as my engagment ring. I know my boyfriend loves me and am not buying the lie that we MUST buy a diamond to make out engagement legitamate.
I would encourage any wise couple who are willing to think for themselves and not swallow everything advertising says, to buy a sssh secrets or lab produced diamond ring.

PS As far as I know, cubic zirconias are the raw material in producing lab created diamonds.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:27:43 +0000

Amber, if they’re lab-created diamonds, how is it they have a hardness of 8.5 instead of the 10 that diamonds have? (Info from the Secrets web site).