I get the gist of the question, as in, have you ever spent a lot of cash on something for someone only to them see it as no big thing.

If I have that right, my answer is yes! Every woman (3 of them) I have bought expensive jewelry for, be it diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, whatever, each woman reacted with a response like "Oh, that's nice." The reaction would have been the same had I given them a hairdryer!

All of those commercials where you see women ecstatic over receiving precious gems? That's not my experience at all!