On Mon, October 8, 2007 10:25 am, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > I agree 100% Lan on this whole diamond business. Has anyone tried to > sell a diamond? I hear that in reality they really don't hold value > despite what the jeweler who sold it to you says. Or perhaps I should > say they don't hold it compared to the retail price. But with the > advances in materials technology I wouldn't be too sure they would hold > their non-retail value either.
Yes, I have. A _high_ quality loose diamond will generally sell for close to what you paid. You will rarely, if ever, achieve full price unless you got a great wholesale deal from your cousin who works down on Hoveniersstraat. A "named" jewel will do even better, but for reasons unrelated to the actual stone usually. Jewelry, on the other hand, is difficult to sell for what you paid. Reasons vary, but such factors as the pretty high retail markup at the start of the cycle, as well as jewelry cartel[1] pressure and the fact that the jewelry consignment market is pretty saturated all play a part. Real diamonds[2] will always have a cachet that fake diamonds don't. Much of their value is in marketing, and the De Beers cartel has proven themselves pretty good at that over the years. -ajb [1] Not a cartel, exactly, but maybe a gentleman's agreement to keep consignment and second-hand sales to a certain...price strata. [2] Real as in "from the ground" not molecularly. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
