Sell your diamonds..NOW

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by Gurm
Yeppers. De Beers has a monopoly on diamonds. Why the feds are after Microsoft and not De Beers is beyond me, that is the slimiest family on the face of the earth.

And yeah, if these lab-created gems catch on, De Beers will rein in the amount of "real" diamonds getting out in order to bump up prices. But it's a dangerous game... if they bump the prices TOO MUCH, people will just buy the created gems.

Gpar_

De Beers has been on the Department of Justice $#!% list for a long while. If any of the De Beer family comes to the US, or any ranking officer in their diamond monpoly, they would be immediately arrested. Thus the De Beers still live and souly operate out of Europe.

Jammrock

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by agallag
According to the Wired article, with the boston company's diamonds, the only way to tell they're fake is that they're too perfect. You just don't find such perfect diamonds naturally. Physically and chemically, they're absolutely 100% pure diamond.

They also said they can make up to 3 carat stones at a price of about $5 per carat. Hopefully they'll be on the market before I get engaged

I would only get such a ring if 1) the fiancee knew and didn't mind or 2) if you really like pain.

Jammrock

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by Jammrock
I would only get such a ring if 1) the fiancee knew and didn't mind or 2) if you really like pain.

Jammrock

Well, most women, if you have been married for a few years, are more practical about things.. at least if you are not filthy rich and she's still with you. Her question would likely be "If you could afford this, why are we still driving around in that 1966 Dodge Dart?"

[Jon P. Inghram]

Bleh, who cares about diamonds for jewlery anyway... their popularity is due in large amount to aggressive marketing by De Beers (nice article about the issue.) IMHO emeralds and rubies look much more "pretty" anyway.

[Greebe]

"If you could afford this, why are we still driving around in that 1966 Dodge Dart?"

Because it's a classic!

I was thinkin more along the lines of a Gremlin or a Pacer.. . but even those... suppose it would now be a Chrysler K car

[Belwarrior]

with regard to the title of this thread : I am not going to sell away my diamonds.. only got a couple of very tiny ones and they are more of sentimental value than anything else.

In fact it might be a good idea to buy some (if really needed but i am not going to buy) when they will drop (there should be a slight drop) before De Beers start their advert campaign to push up the prices.

As for me i will be looking forward to the AMD matched Quad-100GHz CPUs running at a cool 35degC

[Marshmallowman]

I was most impressed with the possibilies in electronics.
0.2 micron transistor at 89 GHz is not bad for an experimnetal stage..