@@felixthecat2786 I mean the diamond industry is terrible. But what are you going to do to actually help the people impacted. It’s not as if the miners benefit solely from your decision not to support the industry they work in.
"From my husband" Why don't you buy him a $3000 ring? Typical materialist girls expecting men to buy them everything. I bet you make him pay for dinner too. 😏
Diamonds are doing particularly poorly because they've been commoditized. High end articles where the artificial scarcity can be controlled like branded watches are doing just fine. Middle-class accessible "luxury" like LVMH aren't doing well because the Chinese economy is tanking and their middle class has been shrinking.
@@Nainara32yes, China’s economy has been tanking for 40 years according to the narratives the US tells its domestic population. Now, consider that the middle class in the U.S. has actually shrinking for the past 40 years.
Women, in general, care the least about objective truth. I remember my mother loving an expensive tweed jacket and skirt set. It was probably $6k after sales tax for both. When it went on sale for $1.5k after Christmas, she lost all interest. It's the feeling of prestige they want, not objective quality.
@@mariajiao4855 exactly!! The only way to tell the difference is that lab grown are perfect and they look for the impurities (nitrogen) to see if it’s real!
If they were rare, then every jewelry store would not have them. There are far rarer stones, but most people have never heard of them so they are less expensive than diamonds. One would be Benitoite, which are beautiful. Another would be Bixbite, which is red Beryl. Emeralds are green Beryl that is far more common, though excellent ones command huge prices.
They deliberately failed to tell that China has become world leader in just last 18 months for Lab grown diamond 💎 so original diamond prices is going down.
Teehee. Diamonds are actually quite common but debeers monopoly enabled them to hoard and keep the value artificially high. Lower costs that reflect more honest value is always good.
@nikolyevic We will not sell our diamonds for less than the production cost. Diamond mining is not cheap, it requires a lot of investment especially underground mining.
I bought a lab diamond for my wife, and she loves it. Lab diamonds or natural it literally the same, it carbon that pressured heated that it. The only ones who will tell you natural is better are the jewelers who want to overprice you.
Get moissanite, very difficult to tell apart even with magnifying glass, fraction of the cost of lab diamonds, also created in lab so conflict free. And if you manage to look close enough to be able to tell the difference, it's actually more beautiful than diamonds, it has higher refraction and splay of colour.
I just wonder if the reason why people always wanted a 2-3 karat was because so few could have it. If the scarcity goes away people will move on to some other financial flex where the supply is naturally or artificially limited.
@@madmax800 - It would be the ultimate flex to have an inconspicuous looking ring with a small low-power Bluetooth transmitter that could transmit a Bitcoin address that held 3 BTC.
One type of diamond cause wars and destroys environment, the other just requires carbon and pressure. But let’s try to change narrative by using the term lab. I remember seeing this very poor woman with smallest diamond on a ring but she was still very proud to wear it. That was 24 years ago and I still can’t get that out of my head. Every time I see any luxury items I remember this lady. It truly made me look for right type of women and I never had a bad relationship after that. So one of the smallest diamonds ever changed how I see the world truly amazing.
The pain, misery, and massive carbon footprint of real natural diamonds is what makes it worth it. Cuz humans love something unique that someone had to be exploited for.
@Novilicious actually if you research it the land is left in better shape than when it started and the mining industry creates thousands ofnhi paying jobs. Also what the sellers of lab diamonds don't like to tell you is how much energy is required to make a diamond in a lab. They like leaving that part out.
@theaquariancontrarian3316 that doesn't happen anymore. There are so many rules today that countries have to follow. The picture you are painting is from long ago. Not now.
Got her a Forever One moissanite ring when I proposed almost 10 years ago. Budget was tight and needed to save money. Now we make close to $400k combined income and she has no desire to "upgrade" her ring. A keeper.
If you literally need a trained eye to tell the difference,why pay for the more expensive one?I mean if it's beautiful wear it and put your money somewhere else.
Edward Bernays Propag anda Minister fooled every one telling them that diamonds are worth something, when in reality, they are not. Engagement rings for example -
Moissanite is not a diamond. Well said. It isn’t. Honest sales people at the jewelry stores, and there are some, will tell you that the lab growns are better than real diamonds. Because it’s now a technology, diamonds are going to become cheaper and better every month. Ultimately they will be almost as cheap as manufactured goods. Like Hardware. Really cheap. Real diamonds will ultimately have to match the price. Because they are chemically and physically exactly the same. There will be no added value by getting real diamonds. Zero. For those who don’t know, all gemstones can be man-made now. The same idea. The prices of all of them are going to fall through the floor.
Exactly. I think a lot of people are still confused on what a lab grown diamond is. Lab grown diamonds are not moissanite (as you have stated). Chemically and physically, lab diamonds are diamonds. Over time, "real" or "natural" diamonds will become less and less popular. There really is no real reason people would prefer "real" or "natural" diamonds beyond historical preferences and the lab growing process being relatively new.
It's about time. Diamonds are worthless. I learned this when I brought my ex's engagement ring to a pawn shop. They would not give me a penny for the diamond. I only got paid for the weight of the gold.
Most of the artificial diamonds are grown in Henan China. They grow and cut bespoke diamonds to specificity depending on the customer, and it is still cheaper than De Beers.
Colored gemstones: long before exact duplication of diamonds was the exact duplication of sapphire. Lab grown sapphire is the exact same element, not just similar, but the exact same element as found in the earth sapphire. To tell the difference you have to examine them under magnification to see growth lines. You cannot tell just by eye, and in a setting it's impossible. Red sapphire is called ruby. Over three decades ago, I purchase as an engagement ring a ruby surrounded by diamonds..... was very elegant and beautiful, and cost much less than if the ruby was found in the earth. For use as jewelry, I personally have never understood why people will pay the huge premium for earth found stones. Okay....so now let's talk about pearls......... lol.
Prices for both Natural and Lab grown will continue to drop. It's inevitable as Lab grown diamonds becomes more prevalent, increased supply from multiple suppliers like China flood the Market. If I'm not mistaken GIA has even started grading and certifying LG diamonds in its own category thus adding more pressure on prices for Naturals to fall even further. It wouldn't come as a suprise if the small 'tells' or subtle differences between the types of diamonds are finally closed or fixed thus making them totally identical. Another factor is combine this with the continuous output of Natural diamonds not just from Africa but Russia as well. It is an endless cycle.
For me, it makes NO sense to buy a Lab Diamond, i rather buy Lab Moissanite because is cheaper and almost as Hard as Diamond But Shines even more ........ Lab Moissanite is the Stone that Shines the most
Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, and de beers marketing has made them rich while they fleece the common man who is forced to buy them because society makes them.
Industry is cooked. Dealers are hurting. Over 400 Brick & Mortar jewelers went out of business in 2024. No light at the end of this tunnel. Smart money is getting out.
Uhm … people can now start “affording” because it no longer has any real “value”. Diamonds and even “colored” gem stones are suddenly moving into the realm of “Costume Jewelry”. Its almost as if Gems & Diamonds were NEVER Repositories of Invested Wealth.
1952 was the first time DeBeers/ Anglo American corporation made the first lab grown diamond. It was kept a secret till the 90s when the Soviet union collapsed. Lab diamonds depends a lot on the pressure necessary to compress the carbon to diamonds. The cost of production has been coming down to an affordable amounts now. Since the last decade.
As I've advised my clients for decades, if you want a "natural Diamond" buy one with naked eye flaws but good color. CZ's to Lab Diamonds are "perfect" and therefore do not have "inclusions" ... that way one knows it's "real". Just saying
The diamond industry keeps prices artificially high they slowly release diamonds there r tonns of natural diamonds that the big two de bears and Russians release slowly to keep prices high, real tight control on the supply side…
The right analogy for a lab grown diamond versus a real diamond, is like cane sugar and corn sugar, both are fructose and the human body cannot differentiate between the two in taste or substance, as chemically it’s the same.
@@Badbadderbaddest You are incorrect. Cane sugar is primarily sucrose. The human body can tell the difference. There are people, such as myself, who are allergic to fructose with significant symptoms if ingested. Therefore, the financially incentivized use of fructose in many foods has resulted in limited diet on my part.
I'd equate it more to ice that's pulled from a glacier vs ice out of your freezer. Exactly the same chemical makeup, just one was made in nature one was made by man. The glacier ice is more likely to be contaminated by dirt, dust, or sand (like the flaws in mined diamonds) whereas your ice machine is much more likely to produce a perfectly clean ice cube (which is why you can find flawless lab diamonds easily).
Diamonds are not rare. They are abundant. The industry artificially created a shortage (by owning the majority of mines, and limiting extract) so as to increase demand
A synthetic diamond is a perfect diamond, Perfect diamonds are very rare in nature, You can only tell a natural diamond by it's imperfection or it's perfect provenance. Do you want a perfect diamond or a natural diamond? How much money do you have?
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Diamonds are B.S. Basically, they're glass. They're worth absolutely nothing and is determined by a rigged market. And the ability to make them for industrial uses is now infinite and flawless. Now gold, silver, and platinum? They're actually worth something. And they're exponentially appreciating in value.
I think natural is always better. But I am of the mindset that I just prefer natural and vintage things. So, almost all the jewelry I have is old. You can always find something nice at the pawnshop. I also have a nice relationship with a local jeweler that will make me something out of something else. This works well when I see an ugly piece with beautiful stones. I think it’s a preference but like so many of you I don’t think anyone should feel obligated to buy something ostentatious for their partner. But if your ideals don’t align then I think that’s usually a bad sign for the relationship overall.
If the only way people can tell is by you telling them then you'd be daft to overpay. I'd take cheap lab grown gold over mined gold if they could make it
For sure she is talking about Jewelers Helping Jewelers imo. That group is notorious for how nasty they are to lab diamonds and colored stones. Its a bunch of dinosaurs on there that are stuck on the LIE that natural diamonds are actually rare
This is dumb, artificial diamonds can be grown perfectly while natural diamonds always have imperfections. You know the pricing is BS when an imperfect version of something costs more than a perfect version.
@@Miles0370 nothing. it's just bad for companies who've invested so much to brainwash people to buy a "real" diamond, when lab grown ones are real diamonds and are better and much much cheaper. Seiko watches have sapphire crystal glass on the front of their watches, and they cost like $1 to make. That's why diamond companies keep trying to suppress knowledge and demand for man made ones.
Beautifully stupid discussion - historically diamonds were for industrial drilling only, the financial flex was just a genius marketing campaign. Chemically it's carbon, and it's about rare as the charcoal you use in the barbeque. Get a clue; the genius part was replacing truly rare gold with USD as the reserve currency. The rest of the world is starting to wise up though
I wanted a lab grown diamond from my husband because screw the diamond industry and evil corporations.
Feeling matters ...not artificially created supply demand
Who is evil in the diamond industry? We mine diamonds in my country
@@felixthecat2786 I mean the diamond industry is terrible. But what are you going to do to actually help the people impacted. It’s not as if the miners benefit solely from your decision not to support the industry they work in.
"From my husband" Why don't you buy him a $3000 ring? Typical materialist girls expecting men to buy them everything. I bet you make him pay for dinner too. 😏
@@felixthecat2786 why not dump it altogether?
Luxury items like diamonds are fading. Young people want an experience rather than a diamond.
Diamonds are doing particularly poorly because they've been commoditized. High end articles where the artificial scarcity can be controlled like branded watches are doing just fine. Middle-class accessible "luxury" like LVMH aren't doing well because the Chinese economy is tanking and their middle class has been shrinking.
Buying something expensive and exclusive is an experience in itself...
@@Nainara32yes, China’s economy has been tanking for 40 years according to the narratives the US tells its domestic population. Now, consider that the middle class in the U.S. has actually shrinking for the past 40 years.
Diamonds are bull$it and people are slowly realizing that.
It's about time. No reason for those things to cost that much. One company controlling an entire international market should never been allowed.
Notice how the woman hates the idea of getting a cheaper item.
Women, in general, care the least about objective truth. I remember my mother loving an expensive tweed jacket and skirt set. It was probably $6k after sales tax for both. When it went on sale for $1.5k after Christmas, she lost all interest. It's the feeling of prestige they want, not objective quality.
Add in the fact that w/men in the West are incredibly intolerable and men no longer want to deal with their extensive list of demands = no marriage.
@@BravoCheesecake and starts talking about and comparing to Moissanite?? Did she not pay attention to what lab diamonds are…
Actually Lab grown diamonds are better in quality.
@@mariajiao4855 exactly!! The only way to tell the difference is that lab grown are perfect and they look for the impurities (nitrogen) to see if it’s real!
The irony of this statement
Diamonds are a monopoly scam. Unless they are big and flawless its not rare at all and worth just a few dollars if anything.
true,
just try reselling your jewellery. its a whopping loss of 70%.
Its debeer scaming.
If they were rare, then every jewelry store would not have them. There are far rarer stones, but most people have never heard of them so they are less expensive than diamonds. One would be Benitoite, which are beautiful. Another would be Bixbite, which is red Beryl. Emeralds are green Beryl that is far more common, though excellent ones command huge prices.
Over 90% of all diamonds mined are crushed up and used in industrial applications. They're pretty cheap.
They deliberately failed to tell that China has become world leader in just last 18 months for Lab grown diamond 💎 so original diamond prices is going down.
Yes… all deflation is due to China. Cheaper prices are all thanks to Chinese manufacturing.. but that’s not a tale the westerner will tell you.
never heard that from MSM.
Yep they left out the industrial diamond business and lab grown in China.
Teehee. Diamonds are actually quite common but debeers monopoly enabled them to hoard and keep the value artificially high. Lower costs that reflect more honest value is always good.
Are we supposed to mine our diamonds in Botswana and sell them for cheap? Some of you people are truly iqnorant.
@kabzaify people mine tin, coal, salt and sell for much cheaper. Just because it's mined doesn't mean it has to be expensive...
@nikolyevic We will not sell our diamonds for less than the production cost. Diamond mining is not cheap, it requires a lot of investment especially underground mining.
I was waiting for this comment. Debeers is only one who cares
@akl4709 Debeers is Botswana
I bought a lab diamond for my wife, and she loves it. Lab diamonds or natural it literally the same, it carbon that pressured heated that it. The only ones who will tell you natural is better are the jewelers who want to overprice you.
Get moissanite, very difficult to tell apart even with magnifying glass, fraction of the cost of lab diamonds, also created in lab so conflict free. And if you manage to look close enough to be able to tell the difference, it's actually more beautiful than diamonds, it has higher refraction and splay of colour.
Diamonds are dead because men are waking up to the fact that wrapping 30k in diamonds around a womans finger is a completely idiotic thing to do.
@@noneofyourbusiness5433 Especially if it can be stolen, mugged off, of worse divorced.
I just wonder if the reason why people always wanted a 2-3 karat was because so few could have it. If the scarcity goes away people will move on to some other financial flex where the supply is naturally or artificially limited.
Like Bitcoin?
@@madmax800 - It would be the ultimate flex to have an inconspicuous looking ring with a small low-power Bluetooth transmitter that could transmit a Bitcoin address that held 3 BTC.
deBeers will soon deBroke
Botswana will go Broke
DeBeers has pioneered artificially keeping the prices of diamonds high
Women LOVE blood diamonds though.
Bloodier the better as they say.
Speaking for myself, nope. But maybe that's because I was paying for my own jewelry.
This is why Gold is Gold 🥇. Can't be made in labs
One type of diamond cause wars and destroys environment, the other just requires carbon and pressure. But let’s try to change narrative by using the term lab. I remember seeing this very poor woman with smallest diamond on a ring but she was still very proud to wear it. That was 24 years ago and I still can’t get that out of my head. Every time I see any luxury items I remember this lady. It truly made me look for right type of women and I never had a bad relationship after that. So one of the smallest diamonds ever changed how I see the world truly amazing.
The pain, misery, and massive carbon footprint of real natural diamonds is what makes it worth it. Cuz humans love something unique that someone had to be exploited for.
It ain't a real diamond unless a 12 year old with one foot fishing it out of a river of diesel and mud
and in the end, nobody can tell the difference.
@Novilicious actually if you research it the land is left in better shape than when it started and the mining industry creates thousands ofnhi paying jobs. Also what the sellers of lab diamonds don't like to tell you is how much energy is required to make a diamond in a lab. They like leaving that part out.
Youre in the minority. Most people dont like death and misery involved with what they buy.
@theaquariancontrarian3316 that doesn't happen anymore. There are so many rules today that countries have to follow. The picture you are painting is from long ago. Not now.
I got my wife a moissanite and she has been wearing it with love for 14 years. Looks better than diamond imo.
Just got my wife one too… the same exact ring in natural diamond is 10x… and she loves it and knows it’s not a diamond
@@DavidPat yeah try harder to convince yourself that.
I may or may not have either but it's bs and sour graping to say such bs.
@@Mega-zi7ys ???
Why the hate on moissanite?
Got her a Forever One moissanite ring when I proposed almost 10 years ago. Budget was tight and needed to save money. Now we make close to $400k combined income and she has no desire to "upgrade" her ring. A keeper.
@@Miles0370moissanite is actually noticeably worse than diamonds, that’s why lol. Lab grown diamonds are cheap enough to realistically get as well.
If you literally need a trained eye to tell the difference,why pay for the more expensive one?I mean if it's beautiful wear it and put your money somewhere else.
Edward Bernays Propag anda Minister fooled every one telling them that diamonds are worth something, when in reality, they are not. Engagement rings for example -
Moissanite is not a diamond. Well said. It isn’t. Honest sales people at the jewelry stores, and there are some, will tell you that the lab growns are better than real diamonds.
Because it’s now a technology, diamonds are going to become cheaper and better every month. Ultimately they will be almost as cheap as manufactured goods. Like Hardware. Really cheap.
Real diamonds will ultimately have to match the price. Because they are chemically and physically exactly the same.
There will be no added value by getting real diamonds. Zero.
For those who don’t know, all gemstones can be man-made now. The same idea. The prices of all of them are going to fall through the floor.
Exactly. I think a lot of people are still confused on what a lab grown diamond is. Lab grown diamonds are not moissanite (as you have stated). Chemically and physically, lab diamonds are diamonds. Over time, "real" or "natural" diamonds will become less and less popular. There really is no real reason people would prefer "real" or "natural" diamonds beyond historical preferences and the lab growing process being relatively new.
It's about time. Diamonds are worthless. I learned this when I brought my ex's engagement ring to a pawn shop. They would not give me a penny for the diamond. I only got paid for the weight of the gold.
I will only buy ice that's mined from glaciers, not FAKE lab grown ice from the freezer.
So you are a saying that the price of a genuine, antique Louis XIV chair will eventually have to match the price of a replica chair bought at IKEA?
Make me sooo happy to have used Tanzanite as an alternative. Will always be precious
Most of the artificial diamonds are grown in Henan China. They grow and cut bespoke diamonds to specificity depending on the customer, and it is still cheaper than De Beers.
all western channels will never reveal that information.
Bullshit lab grown are basically flawless or extremely close. Most diamonds most buy are included which is visible to the naked eye .
Best natural diamonds do not have visible inclusions. Cheaper natural diamonds have visible inclusions.
This is as it should be. It's the sparkling that matters, not the extraction depth.
Took me about a minute to realize this was an ad lol
@@ryanmeier8994 ah makes sense now
At some point the value of ANY diamond will be worth as much as any Swarowski crystals. Basically, crystal glass junk.
Natural Earth grown diamond takes up 1-3 Billion Years to form - Lab Synthetic Man-made diamonds takes 1-3 Hours to form
@@aarongold2768 lol, so does charcoal. Go wear that...
Which makes the earth grown diamond so much more interesting.
I have both natural diamond and cubic zirconia jewelry. Keep them clean and you cannot tell the difference.
I’m waiting for the prices to drop so I can replace my rhinestones with these on my belt and hat.
Russia has HUGE stockpiles of diamonds and is unloading them in the market to raise cash.
I could believe this
Colored gemstones: long before exact duplication of diamonds was the exact duplication of sapphire. Lab grown sapphire is the exact same element, not just similar, but the exact same element as found in the earth sapphire. To tell the difference you have to examine them under magnification to see growth lines. You cannot tell just by eye, and in a setting it's impossible. Red sapphire is called ruby. Over three decades ago, I purchase as an engagement ring a ruby surrounded by diamonds..... was very elegant and beautiful, and cost much less than if the ruby was found in the earth. For use as jewelry, I personally have never understood why people will pay the huge premium for earth found stones.
Okay....so now let's talk about pearls......... lol.
The countries producing natural diamonds should tax companies producing lab grown diamonds since they copy natural diamond structures.
High quality Lab grown diamonds were Produced for Industrial use , high quality
Prices for both Natural and Lab grown will continue to drop. It's inevitable as Lab grown diamonds becomes more prevalent, increased supply from multiple suppliers like China flood the Market. If I'm not mistaken GIA has even started grading and certifying LG diamonds in its own category thus adding more pressure on prices for Naturals to fall even further. It wouldn't come as a suprise if the small 'tells' or subtle differences between the types of diamonds are finally closed or fixed thus making them totally identical. Another factor is combine this with the continuous output of Natural diamonds not just from Africa but Russia as well. It is an endless cycle.
For me, it makes NO sense to buy a Lab Diamond, i rather buy Lab Moissanite because is cheaper and almost as Hard as Diamond But Shines even more ........ Lab Moissanite is the Stone that Shines the most
Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, and de beers marketing has made them rich while they fleece the common man who is forced to buy them because society makes them.
This is fantastic news. Diamond mining is fraught with corruption and poor working conditions.
Gold > diamond
if you can't tell the difference, the price for lab grown and natural will converge
Industry is cooked. Dealers are hurting. Over 400 Brick & Mortar jewelers went out of business in 2024. No light at the end of this tunnel. Smart money is getting out.
Thank god
Uhm … people can now start “affording” because it no longer has any real “value”.
Diamonds and even “colored” gem stones are suddenly moving into the realm of “Costume Jewelry”.
Its almost as if Gems & Diamonds were NEVER Repositories of Invested Wealth.
1952 was the first time DeBeers/ Anglo American corporation made the first lab grown diamond. It was kept a secret till the 90s when the Soviet union collapsed. Lab diamonds depends a lot on the pressure necessary to compress the carbon to diamonds. The cost of production has been coming down to an affordable amounts now. Since the last decade.
Even normal person can’t make difference between American diamond and Natural diamond unless until highly trained.
Diamonds will lose all it's price because it'll become very easy to make a diamond and it'll start getting used in many industries. 😂😂
As I've advised my clients for decades, if you want a "natural Diamond" buy one with naked eye flaws but good color. CZ's to Lab Diamonds are "perfect" and therefore do not have "inclusions" ... that way one knows it's "real". Just saying
The diamond industry keeps prices artificially high they slowly release diamonds there r tonns of natural diamonds that the big two de bears and Russians release slowly to keep prices high, real tight control on the supply side…
Great idea for the all flash, no cash TikTok/Instagram generation. Can flex on the internet while spending very little
a couple years ago I remember laughing at this diamond industry guy who was like "this will never be a thing". classic vanilla cope.
Good, diamonds shouldn’t be priced the way they are in the first place. They aren’t scarce. Lab grown diamonds shine just like real ones.
I dislike jewelry but I want to grow industrial diamonds.
The right analogy for a lab grown diamond versus a real diamond, is like cane sugar and corn sugar, both are fructose and the human body cannot differentiate between the two in taste or substance, as chemically it’s the same.
@@Badbadderbaddest You are incorrect. Cane sugar is primarily sucrose. The human body can tell the difference. There are people, such as myself, who are allergic to fructose with significant symptoms if ingested. Therefore, the financially incentivized use of fructose in many foods has resulted in limited diet on my part.
I'd equate it more to ice that's pulled from a glacier vs ice out of your freezer. Exactly the same chemical makeup, just one was made in nature one was made by man. The glacier ice is more likely to be contaminated by dirt, dust, or sand (like the flaws in mined diamonds) whereas your ice machine is much more likely to produce a perfectly clean ice cube (which is why you can find flawless lab diamonds easily).
Wrong
Diamonds are not rare. They are abundant. The industry artificially created a shortage (by owning the majority of mines, and limiting extract) so as to increase demand
At the end of the day, we all want the real and not the fake, and soon, women will say, why did you cheap out?
A synthetic diamond is a perfect diamond, Perfect diamonds are very rare in nature, You can only tell a natural diamond by it's imperfection or it's perfect provenance. Do you want a perfect diamond or a natural diamond? How much money do you have?
Thank you for your attention to detail! Your videos are always top notch! 😛💕
I do enjoy that people less and less don't care about real diamonds :)
That would hit revenue the S. Africa, Beligium and India hard.
It will hit Botswana and Russia
India is where diamonds are cut, so they will not be hurt much.
Better than a blood diamond
There are no blood diamonds anymore.
A repeat of cultured pearls vs "natural" pearls last century.
So.... in other words, The value of real diamonds is going up then
If they could make gold in lab, what would happen to gold price?
What does wearing a 2 or 3c piece tell me about myself? Self-worth and image are not modulated by superficial externalities. They reside in my worth as a human being, And because I am loved by my Lord Savior Jesus Christ. You are worth far more than any piece of jewelry one could conceive. You are loved by the most powerful being in the universe. Jewel won’t change someone’s heart, But I promise you love will 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰👌
Diamonds are B.S. Basically, they're glass. They're worth absolutely nothing and is determined by a rigged market. And the ability to make them for industrial uses is now infinite and flawless. Now gold, silver, and platinum? They're actually worth something. And they're exponentially appreciating in value.
A lot of fights are about to start after this video...
Lab grown diamonds=Soviet invention…
Got my fiance a sapphire because diamonds are an amazingly stupid thing to spend money on
So what this guy is saying fake is big in America..... Not surprising
Thanks for the truth.
I think natural is always better. But I am of the mindset that I just prefer natural and vintage things. So, almost all the jewelry I have is old. You can always find something nice at the pawnshop. I also have a nice relationship with a local jeweler that will make me something out of something else. This works well when I see an ugly piece with beautiful stones. I think it’s a preference but like so many of you I don’t think anyone should feel obligated to buy something ostentatious for their partner. But if your ideals don’t align then I think that’s usually a bad sign for the relationship overall.
Oh no!! The shiny rocks market is bottoming out!
Don't buy diamonds that are mined!
The mine locations leave with the land in better shape than when it was found. Especially in Canada. Do your research.
If the only way people can tell is by you telling them then you'd be daft to overpay. I'd take cheap lab grown gold over mined gold if they could make it
I love lab ones
Why settle for a flawed dirt diamond when you can have a perfect crystal diamond? I mean what are you trying to say to her after all?
i can finally afford to put a 5 carat on my baby girl's ears 🤣
Good.
For sure she is talking about Jewelers Helping Jewelers imo. That group is notorious for how nasty they are to lab diamonds and colored stones. Its a bunch of dinosaurs on there that are stuck on the LIE that natural diamonds are actually rare
You can hear people in the background on the audio such bad quality
This has been around for 2 decades.
This is dumb, artificial diamonds can be grown perfectly while natural diamonds always have imperfections. You know the pricing is BS when an imperfect version of something costs more than a perfect version.
Creative destruction prevents stagnation.
Good. Enough people have died for wedding rings.
Do lab grown diamond have resell value
A lab grown diamond is easy tell with equipment because it’s too perfect
And the drawback is?
@@Miles0370 nothing. it's just bad for companies who've invested so much to brainwash people to buy a "real" diamond, when lab grown ones are real diamonds and are better and much much cheaper. Seiko watches have sapphire crystal glass on the front of their watches, and they cost like $1 to make. That's why diamond companies keep trying to suppress knowledge and demand for man made ones.
I wonder if they will start making synthetic GOLD
Why fight? The diamond market is well a scam. Fake scarcity and obligation to waste a bunch of money on a pebble.
Diamonds have been a scam for a century.
Isn't it more correct to talk about lab grown vs. mined diamonds. Both are real diamonds - that is carbon crystals.
Give her a garnet and tell her to be happy
Diamond industry is finished. They will devaluate 10% each year.
"Diamonds are forever" (Or at least until you pass-on)
Just another fad that will fade away and be replaced by Bitcoin
It seems diamonds aren't forever after all, oh well.
They what they used to say when quartz countertop was introduced. 😂
Moisanite is whats actually disruptive lol. It looks better and is cheaper than lan grown. The vanity behind it doesnt matter anymore
It was always a scam.
They really aren't that rare.
Most importantly are they at a much better priced?!
Beautifully stupid discussion - historically diamonds were for industrial drilling only, the financial flex was just a genius marketing campaign.
Chemically it's carbon, and it's about rare as the charcoal you use in the barbeque. Get a clue; the genius part was replacing truly rare gold with USD as the reserve currency.
The rest of the world is starting to wise up though
Those FB Groups are probably sponsored by DeBeers 😂