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I use "real" and "natural" interchangeably in this context, but sure if we want to be pedantic I'll use natural instead. Regardless, I view natural diamonds as having "real" value in the luxury space and synthetics as... Not.
that is because you are a marketing account that is 50 days old and has 23 karma
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Wholesale I'm not sure. Retail you can use sites like stonealgo.com to search inventory. And no that's the final cut and graded price.
The trade uses a variety of sites for "wholesale" prices. Rapnet is the standard, and they publish the Rapaport Price List. However, it only covers natural diamonds, and rapnet only lists natural. Diamonds generally go for a % discount off the Rap Price List. Polygon (.net) is the other major listing platform. They include lab diamonds, and most everyone uses them. There are other platforms, but those are the two maj…
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I have a Series 5 with the Saphire glass but my clumsy ass dropped it in the kitchen onto a stone floor. The edge of the glass shattered and while I still use it to this day, it's an ugly reminder of my clumsiness. The repair offer from Apple was to get a new one with a very slight discount. Long story short, it is more scratch resistant but also more prone to break. So be careful.
I wonder if they could put in tiny reaction wheel gyroscopes (to make it land in a safe orientation) or tiny linear reaction masses, or perhaps tiny replacable airbags or tiny sodium azide NaN3 charges/nozzles to blow air just before landing, to make for a gentler landing, replacable of course. Tiny replacable airbags, on the corners. Preferably it should somehow detect the elasticity of the surface its falling to or…
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You omit functional value referred somewhat euphemistically as "portable wealth." See also: why doesn't the US circulate 1000 dollar bills?
It's not, though. This is old, but it's a classic: https://archive.ph/VdR8C The short version is that it's very tough to sell diamonds. You're much more likely to get fleeced or get arrested than you are to get a fair deal.
In fact, incredibly high. Five times higher than copper.
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Don't we already have good scratch protection? Cracks from drops seem like the main issue.
And it's a tradeoff. I found out the hard way that newer Pixels have incredibly soft screens to avoid cracks and shattering. Unfortunately, they're so soft that a fingernail (a 2.5 on the Mohs scale) will leave huge gouges quickly. Fortunately, there's third-party covers that use an adhesive that fills in the scratches well.
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I'd rather use the diamonds to manufacture the laser machines that do eye surgery and remove glasses lol
No, because eye surgery can't take the place of corrective lenses in all cases: it's not a full replacement for glasses or contacts. For people the farther ends of the spectrum (either needing very light correction, or extremely heavy), surgery doesn't work, or for very high prescriptions it only helps but it's not enough by itself. (Ophthalmologists please feel free to chime in.) And there's other reasons people are…
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How will they maintain their jewelry business ? It feels like Sony CD-R drives in the Playstation era.
Nobody ever bought a CD-R to impress a cute piece of ass to marry them. DeBeers are just positioning on price, natural more traditional and romantic, etc. Who wants to know their engagement ring was half price?
I mean...a ton of people. My fiancee and I just purchased her ring together and it was pretty much a silent agreement from both sides that lab grown was the way to go (confirmed out loud of course). The stone we ended up getting was about 1/10 the cost the closest natural we could find, and both of us agreed that there are way better ways to spend that money with everything else in the future.
Many people also love jewelry but would rather not have something worth a brand new car on their hand.