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My impressions is that most people still care about real diamonds though. Have thongs changed? Have prices changed?
by miketery 9y ago
My impressions is that most people still care about real diamonds though. Have thongs changed? Have prices changed?
- adamnemecek 9y agoIndeed. Also lab grown diamonds aren't much cheaper than real ones AFAIK.
- nerdponx 9y agoI might be biased by my own personal preferences, then. I certainly have no interest in a real diamond, when synthetics are so good.
- ghostbrainalpha 9y agoGood data exists to test your assumption, which I think is partially correct. http://www.idexonline.com/diamond_prices_index http://www.idexonline.com/diamond_prices_index The Diamond price index shows prices HAVE come down in the past 5 years by approximately 10%. Fake diamonds may be depressing the price of real ones, but it doesn't look like the market is flooded enough to solve problems like Conflict Diamonds right now. This is probably mostly because the price of lab grown synthetic diamonds is still in the same range as real diamonds for most large stones and engagement rings. As the price of artificial diamonds continues to decline this effect should continue to grow.
- miketery 9y agoIs a synthetic diamond chemically equivalent to a real one? Great that price is dropping.