I am not sure how the price of the ring went up when the price of gold went down, but of course, the price quoted is never the final price. My biggest problem is that when my ring was finished, instead of sending me pictures of the finished product, I was led to believe that renderings were the actual ring. So of course when I received the ring and it was nothing like the pictures I was not happy. I am not sure why you would send renderings when you have the finished product but that is why I returned the ring. In the picture of 2 rings the silver one shows what the antiquing is supposed to look like, and the gold one shows what I received. You tell me if you would be happy.