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Originally Posted by Eric
High quality diamonds do not lose value either. It is the impure ones that fade and crack and get discolored do to the impurities in the diamond.
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I had always understood that diamonds were way inflated, and that if you buy one, and turn around and sell it back to a jeweler the next day, you'd be lucky to see 20% of the money that you paid for it.
Maybe that's not the case with higher-end diamonds... I'll be sure check it out when I have more time. Thanks for that.
But even so... you still have to work around all the political/blood-money crap dealing with the things... and I'm relatively sure there's no such thing as a guaranteed "blood free" diamond... just another marketing ploy for the traders and sellers to find a way to work around.
I'd just rather do what was traditional before Da Beers came along, and buy my lady a nice Emerald ring. More traditional than the diamond, generally more inexpensive, works as an investment piece, and guilt free.