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It can't be that simplistic. There's a price for everything and there has to be someone always willing to pay it.
Do you have any unpopular opinions???VOL....2
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a diamond isnt rare, its supply is just controlled which used to make da mystique of their value a stubborn myth.
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u must be new here b...
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/305491/
get in tune...Debeers discouraged people from selling their diamonds to keep da supply circulation low...and spliced da strategy with sappy love advertisements about "diamonds sre forever"...
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I'm aware of that, but that doesn't make the other things you said true. Business is all about supply and demand. You know very well just by being on this forum.
I am fairly new to this forum, but I've been working in jewelry for the past 6 years, 3 of which in management. I am pretty sure I know more than you when it comes to what the actual "cost" is on most jewelry (and it's definitely not 10%). The mark up on clothing is actually WAAAAAY higher than FINE jewelry.
Hint... all that melee diamond pavee ******** that all these rappers buy nowadays are the hustle, small diamonds are a dime a dozen. Large, high quality solitaire diamonds do hold their value very well.
I am fairly new to this forum, but I've been working in jewelry for the past 6 years, 3 of which in management. I am pretty sure I know more than you when it comes to what the actual "cost" is on most jewelry (and it's definitely not 10%). The mark up on clothing is actually WAAAAAY higher than FINE jewelry.
Hint... all that melee diamond pavee ******** that all these rappers buy nowadays are the hustle, small diamonds are a dime a dozen. Large, high quality solitaire diamonds do hold their value very well.
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The diamond invention is far more than a monopoly for fixing diamond prices; it is a mechanism for converting tiny crystals of carbon into universally recognized tokens of wealth, power, and romance. To achieve this goal, De Beers had to control demand as well as supply. Both women and men had to be made to perceive diamonds not as marketable precious stones but as an inseparable part of courtship and married life. To stabilize the market, De Beers had to endow these stones with a sentiment that would inhibit the public from ever reselling them. The illusion had to be created that diamonds were forever -- "forever" in the sense that they should never be resold.
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The only reason why products are made in china is so corporations can shed money on labor costs to mass produce products. Yeah you can buy fake items, but that doesn't mean it will perform the same/work the same as the real deal. Plus the counterfeit market is known for using the profit they generate to fund terrorism and other types of high level crime.
Not worth buying something knowingly its fake when i can take my money to marshalls or goodwill knowing that i'm funding some terrorist group or organized crime ring.
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I saw that video, I've also ready 26 chapters about diamonds before I became certified and a manager. Supply and diamond. Nike can make an infinite amount of FTL Jordan 3s if they wanted to. Why don't they? Because they are not stupid and they know they need to limit certain things so that they will hold perceived value. Value in itself is merely perception.
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that's part of da overarching theme im talkin about...
labor from paving stones, and those regular pointer sizes are no where near as expensive as these rappers gets hit in da head for.... im
willing to bet yachty never getting when he spent on any of those tennis chains...best thing he bought was that giant cuban.
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Ok.. so you're telling me ISIS is selling fake Jordans and this relates to the diamond industry how?
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yeah well add to da fact that diamonds can be synthesized, as well as other options like moissanite and hundreds of other places now offer diamonds outside da cartel scheme, and you got da eventual recipe for falling prices/demand.
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Rappers like wasting money, easy come, easy go, a fool and their money, etc, etc.
Once again, the same can be said for almost anything else, from clothing to cars... the only difference is, one holds it's value much better than the other, and it's not clothing or cars. I do agree, gold is a more... solid, investment. They're finding more diamonds in the wild now than they are gold, which is pretty much all being recycled at this piont... but once again, where is the value in gold? It has no practical use outside of semiconduction in microchips.
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I'm not correlating the diamond industry to my topic nor am i saying isis is selling fake jordans. There are many other terrorist groups out there then ISIS. Home and abroad. They all can benefit from selling counterfeit items.
But their are terrorist group in conflict zones in africa that cause problems african countries where diamonds are mined.
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their is a planet not far from our solar system filled with diamonds than what's here on earth. When we get there, and if we get there diamonds will hold little not no value, cat's will swimming in diamonds like its water.
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They said bitcoin was for terrosists too..
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i don't know anything much about bitcoin, but cyber-terrorism is a real thing too. Your enemy doesn't have to be physical object/person, they can intercept the money market if they have the computing power to do so.
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Yeah because interstellar space travel is cheap and whatever company that chooses to mine that planet is doing so out of the kindness of their hearts and want your cat to be flooding in diamonds for the low.
Meanwhile... we have a practically unlimited supply of cows, yet Jordans are made mostly out of cheaper, synthetic leather, and cost $190+. Also a gallon of mike goes for $4+ in Chicago, but here in central IL they are under $1.
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Its something called "free-will", you don't have buy jordans for $190 when you know "yourself" that nike/JB is using cheap material. Its your money you have the "free-will" to make your own buying decisions.
Now for the cost milk coming to chicago, you forgot the fact that someone needs to distribute that milk to the town/cities within chicago, that's drives up cost cause you gotta pay the the truck driver, rental of the truck, the gas etc.....perishable goods like milk will always cost more once it hit your supermarket shelves. Unless you wanna be farmer and DO IT YOURSELF. lol.
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That was the point I was trying to make...
Also, I doubt it costs any less to drive milk to central IL than it does to Chicago or anywhere else for that matter. Milk prices, like everything else in America, is all about supply and demand. For whatever reason milk here cost 1/3rd of what it costs everywhere else I've lived. I don't live in Wisconsin, and there are no dairy farms that I know of near by. This area just happens to be very competitive when it comes to milk prices, for whatever reason. Maybe it's the same reason why Jordans sell out in the US but not in other countries. Probably not, but that's just how it happens to be.
Also, I doubt it costs any less to drive milk to central IL than it does to Chicago or anywhere else for that matter. Milk prices, like everything else in America, is all about supply and demand. For whatever reason milk here cost 1/3rd of what it costs everywhere else I've lived. I don't live in Wisconsin, and there are no dairy farms that I know of near by. This area just happens to be very competitive when it comes to milk prices, for whatever reason. Maybe it's the same reason why Jordans sell out in the US but not in other countries. Probably not, but that's just how it happens to be.
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Capitalism/Free market enterprise what can do but not join in. It's what creates jobs and churns the economy.
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he's exaggerating a bit but not totally off the mark.
diamonds are actually quite common, even before lab made diamonds became readily available. most of the value for cut diamonds comes from the work, skill and time involved in cutting the diamond andpeople's perception of their exclusivity. unless a diamond is incredibly large or bright (i think brilliance is the industry term) it isn't really worth that much.
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Quite common compared to what? I never debated the fact they DeBeers has been hording them for decades. I was just saying that it's no different from a lot of the other things we enjoy buying. The problem is, guys don't usually enjoy buying diamonds because they don't usually buy them for themselves.
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Expensive **** doesn't equate to fresh or stylish. It's just expensive lame ****.
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you named da value, and da fact that its pretty much resistant to corrosion, and since its a element you can't make it like you can make diamonds.
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NH, are black diamonds real, legit question.
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Saying you rock variants
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said it isnt just terrorism. Organized crime... Drugs, prostitution, human trafficking, weapons trafficking. Isis isnt the only terrorist organization either.Exhibit A is the celebrities rocking heat thread
