Did you know that the cheap man-made industrial diamonds are indistinguishable from the natural diamonds

diamonds are a scam, just like most of everything else

there is value in real diamonds.

Yes de Beers cornered the market on commercial jewelry diamonds. But diamonds are also used in industry, drilling, needles.

What's wrong with using an Earth natural resource as a symbol and currency? Not different than bitcoin.

Last Edited by Agent 99 on 11/09/2018 06:45 AM

Diamonds are only worth what they are because of De Beers.

Think about how many stores are full of diamonds in every city and in every country.

Russia has vaults full of them too.

Diamonds are anything but rare.

Its the same thing chemically, yes. But the looks of it are completely different. Diamonds are rare in nature. People value rare/unique things. It works as a status symbol. Its not about how much it shines. Its about showing how much one can spend in a useless thing, which is a demonstration of how much rich one is. Its the same as the feathers on a peacock: showoff.

I agree on everything but the looks. The jewelry diamonds look the way they look mostly because of the finishing work. Industrial diamonds are also made in a relatively carefree way. Tolerances for impurities and defects (which influence the looks) are higher. Slight tuning of the process would improve on that.

We could mass-produce jewelry-grade diamonds, but we can't for legal reasons.

Yes, there is sentimental value to natural diamonds just like there is to gold.

Last Edited by Creme de la Crap on 11/09/2018 06:52 AM

A nice diamond with a slight flaw is ideal now. The slight flaw is proof of authenticity.

If you want to be certain, buy diamond with slight flaw.

yea its all bs these days,fake diamonds are just as pretty but who wants to show off gawdy wealth anyways.lipstick on a pig.just another form of bitcoin really.a way to move wealth.

Diamonds are not at all rare in nature
It's all marketing

My ring was valued at $14k with a real diamond. I liked the setting and requested a CZ instead. The final price was a couple hundred.

Looks the same to me, even up close. And the casual observer who sees it moving around on my hand definitely can't tell either.

Diamonds are a marketing scam, for sure.

Exactly it is a total advertising created item!

Lab diamonds are flawless natural stones are not.

You can deliberately put flaws in them.

I was at a conference of diamond cutters about 20 years ago. Everybody was walking around with these little folded up papers in their back pockets. In those papers were cut and uncut diamonds.

A speaker got up and started talking about man made diamonds. He admitted that the Russians could make large carat diamonds, but said that you couldn't cut the man made stones.

The guy beside me showed me a large cut diamond. He said it was 6 carats. I asked him what it was worth. He said he had it appraised at over $100,000 but he bought it on the streets of Moscow for $,2000. It was man made and nobody could tell.

Think of it. You go into a grocery store, and every checkout counter has those scanners where they swipe your jars and cans over a sheet of what looks like red glass. It's not glass, it's a man-made ruby. If they can mass produce giant rubies, they can mass produce diamonds.

Emeralds are much rarer than diamonds, that’s one of the reasons why I chose an Emerald stone for my wedding ring.

They artificially create prices - They have drawers FILLED with them - There is an over abundance of them. The value is a perceived value just like anything else. They are sold as "Rare" - They are not.

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