Shawn’s Ring

I don’t really like shopping online. It’s OK for things like tickets or books or music; stuff that you don’t need to see and touch first before you buy it, but I never buy clothes or anything like that online.

So it’s a bit surprising that we bought Shawn’s ring online. I know, I know, buying jewellery online seems quite risky and I doubt we would have done it if Shawn’s ring contained diamonds or any other stones. But since Shawn wanted a fairly simple tungsten ring, it seemed like it would be a safe thing to do.

We started by going to a few brick-and-mortar jewellery stores first so that Shawn could try on a few different rings and narrow down what he wanted. We did see some very nice designs out there and, with the help of Google, Shawn found many of these designs over on TitaniumKay.com, a site that also offers amazing prices, with rings starting as low as $55 US.

After Shawn finally picked out his design, we just did a general Google search on TitaniumKay.com to see what kind of negative feedback was out there about it. We didn’t come across anything concerning so Shawn placed his order and saved us probably $200 on the cost of his ring.

The website promised the ring would be in here in about a week and in actuality it only took four days (were you expecting some kind of lost ring horror story to start here?). It looked exactly like it did online and Shawn is quite pleased with it.

The only issue is that I think it’s about a half-size too big though Shawn’s still uncertain about that. Thankfully, he can send it back and get a re-sized version for free (Shawn had asked about this prior to placing his order). We had gotten Shawn sized the day before he placed the order but we’ve since learned that generally you want to order tungsten rings half-a-size to a full size smaller (thanks Peoples for not telling us that).

So overall getting Shawn’s ring was quick, easy and we came in well under-budget. I’d still be hesitant to get a diamond ring online but a stone-less one? Yeah, I’d do it again as long as I was buying from a reputable website that uses insured shipping (and any reputable should be offering just that).