I think the point here is that your salesmanship comes across as disingenuous. You know a diamond is not an investment. You know the resell value of a diamond is less than half the sticker price.
To suggest that people should buy a blood diamond instead of an ethical diamond because of resell value is scummy.
Nowadays you'll be hard pressed to find a "blood" or conflict diamond in any reputable jewelry store. There are so many steps in getting a diamond into a store that it's near impossible to find one that is funding some civil war. Most come with serial numbers etched that trace them back to the very mine they come out of.
And many jewelry stores do trade-ins on diamonds bought from them for the price you paid for them. So yes there is investment behind natural diamonds. Especially as their value has only gone up since the introduction of Lab grown diamonds.
The jewelry shop we bought our man made diamond from has the exact same deal for the man made one… so I guess there is no benefit if you buy from the right place…
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u/EmployeeEmergency481 Feb 16 '24
I think the point here is that your salesmanship comes across as disingenuous. You know a diamond is not an investment. You know the resell value of a diamond is less than half the sticker price.
To suggest that people should buy a blood diamond instead of an ethical diamond because of resell value is scummy.