The diamond reputation really is amazing, there are much prettier stones imo.
I totally get the supply and demand curve, but it's one of the greatest tricks ever pulled.
Telling half the population of the world that this is what is a measure of love, it helps a lot really. I mean, you do spend a lot of money to create a demand, but over the years, i'm sure they have recovered a fair bit of it. At one time, extraction of the product was difficult and they were indeed rare, but now i guess it is far from it.
Diamonds aren't forever at all, can't they just be burnt away to carbon dioxide? And they aren't any prettier than cubic zirconia, they're just a clear stone. The success of diamonds is indeed a marketing masterpiece.
The missus disagrees. But that sort of proves the point.
Yep. One minute you may be perceived to be rich, the next minute, all that is gone.
About the bolded bit, were you really expecting something different? This is how marketing works. Even engineers fall for the same trick, even though they know it is exactly the same thing inside, say a couple of laptops. One of my friends, an engineer, he suggested that i didn't want him to be cool.
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On topic: Did anyone hear any updates on the issue?