$5 a carat diamonds!

[luto1999]

"As for now I am buying moissanite. My finance has already approved it and thinks its better and prettier than a diamond."

Talk to me if you want one, We have a great source for these. My boss bought a 1 carat and I never knew until he told me.
In fact anyone in the St. Louis area who is in need of jewelery, well ok no one needs jewelery, contact me. I work for a very reputable firm.

 

[SweetBaboo]

I emailed Apollo Diamonds and got this reply

THANK YOU!
I want to personally thank you for your interest in Apollo Diamond, Inc. and your support in introducing the Apollo Cultured Diamond GemstoneÔ.



The Apollo process is very new but promises the availability of 100% real diamond gemstones that are grown as opposed to mined. Apollo Cultured Diamond Gemstones will offer consumers high-quality diamond gems, similar to how cultured pearls are now offered and sold in the gemstone market.



Many of you have asked about the availability of our diamonds. Apollo Cultured Diamond Gemstones will be available in the next six months in small quantities. We are currently working with a number of distributors and retailers, which I will make available to you over the next few months.



If you are interested in distributing Apollo Cultured Diamond Gemstones, please let me know through our Web site?s ?comments? page and we will contact you separately.



We are all looking forward to the great, new possibilities that our cultured diamond gemstones will bring to the world. I want to thank you again for being there with us.



Sincerely,







Bryant R. Linares

President and CEO

Apollo Diamond, Inc.

 

[slikk]

Nice, I wonder which distributor/retailer will be carrying them and the retail price for their cultured diamonds.

 

[razor2025]

lemme throw in a new perspective on "The girl would want the most expensive diamond".

What would the girl think if you give her these 2 choices

DeBeer (mined) - It's mine by the people who live in horrible condition and exploited by ruthless monopoly who ignores laws, morals, and ethics.

"Cultured" Diamonds - It's artificially created, but no one was exploited. The people who made these diamonds were sophisticated engineers who earns a good living and are not forced into their labor because their company has bought off their country's government or totally ignored anti-trust laws.

Think about that for a moment. Do you want to give someone you love and charish a product that carries so much evil and sorrow? Do you want your girl to be part of the cycle that would opress third-world workers and make the monopoly richer? Do you want her to carry a gem that has the BLOOD, TEARS, and SWEAT (eww) of hundreds of Africans who were forced or manipulated to work for them? or affected by them? I hope you don't....

But.. in other hand, the "Cultured" Diamonds doesn't carry any of those moral burden. Now, THESE diamonds should symbolize what, IMO, the true meaning of diamonds (colorless ones). "PURITY". (or Purity of Love).

Geez people... obviously we have a awesome alternative choice right ahead of us.... How can you beat a diamond that's cheaper, physically same, flawless (Apollo's), and most importantly morally/ethically CORRECT!


DeBeers, GO TO F*CKING HELL.

 

[QuicknDirty]

Actually, I think that when the synthetics hit the market, and more and more people can afford the big stones, the market will crumble. I highly doubt anyone's woman is going to prefer a much smaller "real" diamond when everyone else she works with is picking up big rocks for 1/4 the price. Then those people won't like it when people start buying even bigger ones, etc etc. What's next, you going to have to carry a wheelbarrow to move your wedding ring??

It will simply move on to something different, once the market is totally flooded, and the diamond is no longer a "special" stone, IMO.

QnD

 

[Scottee]

This hasn't move to OT yet?

Coming from a sociologist, it doesn't matter what the diamond's made of, who mined it, how it was formed, what color it is, or if you can tell it from the one next to it. All that matters is what people value. Two identical baseballs can be sitting next to each other at an auction, and one can go for $3 while the other goes for $3 million. People will pay more for one than the other because of its status. It's all about the diamond being a status symbol. If all the rich people started buying pebbles that were picked up off the ground from a certain farm in Nebraska, that were only picked up by 36 1/2 year-old males who used their left hand and were wearing black jeans at 3am, then those certain pebbles would skyrocket in price. Yes, DeBeers has done some great marketing to keep diamonds at such a high price. But once people decide that diamonds aren't so special anymore, they'll just replace them with rubies, or vineyards, or sports cars. It doesn't matter how the diamond was made, all that matters is if people still value it. So if all the rich people decide that they only want certified, mined diamonds, then the synthetics will never lower the cost of the mined ones.

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: hookitup

Er, people don't murder each other over coal. Nor do they fight wars to control coal mines

You really must not know anything about coal mining. We (still, yes still) rely upon coal for industry and coal mining is the #1 most dangerous career in the U.S. Heard of "Bloody Harlan"? No, prolly not.

This is not the early 20th Century, dude. I'm pretty confident that accidents in coal mining are responsible for the vast majority of fatalities in that industry.

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: labgeek

Originally posted by: Greg03
If you are over 20, you have seen this story surface every 5 years. Each time the same result - it reads like a popular science article -- in 4 years, the world will change. Well I've seen enough of these article to laugh them off. C'mon guys how gullible are you?

From what I hear the word "gullible" isn't even in the dictionary.

You must be pretty gullible if you believe what you hear.

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: Bleep

before she gets her hands on half of your property.

Time for you to move.

 

[huesmann]

Stupid Mods moving posts right in the middle of a response...

Originally posted by: Scottee
But once people decide that diamonds aren't so special anymore, they'll just replace them with rubies, or vineyards, or sports cars.

It's a little harder to flaunt your vineyard at people you want to make jealous than flicking your finger with a big honkin' diamond on it.

 

[dighn]

artificially creating diamonds is not new. it's sooner or later they perfect it.

 

[Doggiedog]

Originally posted by: astrochimp
heck if you don't mind not having PErfect clarity..
buy Moissanite for the time being.. sparkles more than diamonds do

Yes do that.

I own stock in a moissanite company.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: gwlam12
i dont like this. my parents make a living off of selling diamonds

Then they make a living off slavery.

Did you guys read it? Dimaond (wafer) based microprocessors!!! :Q

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: meehawl

Originally posted by: SweetBaboo
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html

Yeah, this would be the same Wired that confidently informed me that the web browser was a thing of the past, back in 1998, and wouyld be replaced by a pushy screensaver?

Or the Wired that said the NASDAQ would go on climbing forever?

Or the same Wired whose stellar-performing "New Economy" Wired Index Fund included such market leaders as Enron, Corning, WorldCom, and AOL?

Or the same Wired that told me that Daiketana was going to be the greatest game ever?

Or the same Wired that told me that soon everyone would be "Zippies"?

Right.

What's a Zippie?

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: upsciLLion
From the article:

Wrong, says Jef Van Royen, a senior scientist at the Diamond High Council, the official representative of the diamond industry in Belgium. "If people really love each other, then they give each other the real stone," he says, during an interview at council headquarters on the Hoveniersstraat in Antwerp. "It is not a symbol of eternal love if it is something that was created last week."

It's silly to think that giving diamonds to someone means you love them. Giving someone the family jewels should be the determining factor of that.

ups

What?!? Real dimaonds are mined by a bunch of slaves and children... now that's love!

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: hookitup

If it is made of carbon just like a diamond is today, how is it a fake? Just because it is produced faster and cheaper. If your woman is that set on material things, you may want to look elsewhere.

Was it produced by the earth? Did it take as long as a diamond? Is it rare? No.No.No.
So it's fake.

Also, I'm not saying MY woman in particular... MOST women out there, guaranteed, would consider their mate a 'CHEAP@SS' if he presented a man made gem. Trust.

"Natural" diamonds arent rare, either... however, DeBeers has managed to make them scarce in the marketplace, thus elevating prices

Frankly, if a woman thought I was cheap for say, sinking 5K into part of a downpayment on a house rather than on a ring, I'd have severe reservations about marrying her. Yeah, I know that cuts down the selection a little, but it also cuts out the gold diggers, so I'm fine with that