Significantly less than that, less than half. And why not send it back? He got the money. This ring is central to how we found out about Wise and Boyd, just FYI.
Edit: Let me clarify a couple things. The amount I paid for the ring was less than its melt value in gold - that was my original thought. He was groaning about money, I sent a low offer for the ring, and he agreed.
Not even a few days later (the day after it came in the mail), I find out about Chris' odd behavior (see the Wise and Boyd post) and think to myself what could I do to help?
So it dawned on me - Chris is really big on shamanism and symbols (thanks
@Marvin) so I simply told him that the ring was sending me morse code messages and that the idiots in Discord were lying to him. So I did a five minute photoshop of the ring glowing and sent it to Chris as well as a piece of notepaper where I wrote "The CPUs have been hacked. Don't trust the CPUs" claiming that was the morse code message.
Sure enough, Chris believed it because, y'know, amnyfest ring and proceeded to give me his passwords and everything else - that's how we got to where we are today.
As soon as I logged into Discord and realized that he had been forced to sell it, I told Chris that if he can come up with the couple hundred bucks I paid for it I'd send it back in a flash.
Sure enough he did and I fulfilled my side or the bargain - I sent it back.
Without that ring we may NEVER have found out what happened -
@Null and
@Marvin have known for months that I had the ring and that it was how I got in Chris' head in the first place.
