The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge

Post by gumby » Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 2:24 AM UTC

adolph wrote: post #14

jjtheblunt wrote: post #9

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Rains diamonds on neptune?

Seems like a reasonable conjecture that stretches the meaning of the word rain. Naomi Rowe-Gurney: So I mentioned methane being the reason why these two planets are blue. Well, methane has carbon in it and that carbon can occur by itself and also be crushed by the immense pressures that happen, like, deep in the atmosphere, so much deeper than the levels that I look at. And inside the planet, when it gets really hot…

Post by Horffupolde » Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 2:32 AM UTC

brink wrote: post #3

I would like to take this moment to thank https://diamondssuck.com/ for preventing me from buying my wife a diamond, and getting her a much prettier moissanite instead. It's been on hn's front page several times.

Post by vel0city » Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 2:34 AM UTC

gumby wrote: post #21

jamiek88 wrote: post #4

Has anyone ever tried to sell an engagement or wedding ring with diamonds? You get cents on the dollar. Even or I should say especially brand names like Tiffany. The whole thing is a scam from start to finish and I wish I could go back in time and avoid the entire thing.

The origin of diamond engagement rings was insurance: with the decline of "breach of promise" suits, the fiancée at least had something to sell as a settlement if the fiancé reneged on the promise of marriage. All of that nonsense is long gone; the fetish for engagement rings is just a residual and empty metaphor. Good riddance. My US gf was astonished and dubious that my relatives (in various other countries) didn't…

Post by dariusj18 » Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 2:36 AM UTC

brink wrote: post #3

I would like to take this moment to thank https://diamondssuck.com/ for preventing me from buying my wife a diamond, and getting her a much prettier moissanite instead. It's been on hn's front page several times.

Post by theamk » Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 2:41 AM UTC

kmeisthax wrote: post #10

toomuchtodo wrote: post #2

https://archive.today/89rNF

I haven't been able to access archive.today in a good long while. Cloudflare's challenge page lets me solve a captcha, but doesn't actually remember that I've solved it. So I'm in an endless loop of challenge pages. If you're wondering, I'm on Firefox connected thru Google Fiber. I've tried disabling Enhanced Tracking Protection, but all that does is make it so I don't have to solve a captcha. I still get the endless…