An End to Mined Diamonds?

mburtonk · May 21, 2021

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Pandora makes garbage jewelry anyway. Like that god awful Michael Kohrs garbage, you're buying a brand name, a fashion piece, not a quality piece of jewelry that will last a lifetime.
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From what I've been able to gather, 99% of the jewelry industry are less honorable than the Ferengi to the point that even the Ferengi wouldn't want anything to do with them.
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This is extremely simplistic, but there are two basic types of jewelry. Fashion Jewelry and Fine Jewelry. Fashion Jewelry, like the Travel Jewelry category it replaced, is meant to be disposable garbage. But, somewhere along the way someone figured out that you can charge Fine Jewelry prices for Fashion Jewelry if you build a big enough brand (ie Pandora). The quality is still garbage, but you're paying Fine Jewelry prices so the average consumer thinks they're getting a Fine Jewelry piece.

My advice to anyone buying jewelry is to stay away from displays with names on them. If you walked into your preferred jewelry store and you see a tray marked Pandora, or LeVian, or Love's Crossing (that's real hot right now), run. Stay away from it. It's likely a fashion jewelry piece for a fine jewelry price. Like LeVian, they trade on their history and marketing. But, those "chocolate diamonds" are trash. Brown diamonds are industrial diamonds. The industry had a glut of industrial diamonds and LeVian bought them on the cheap, set them in rose gold, and hit it with black rhodium, and sells you a garbage industrial diamond at MORE than a near colorless natural diamond's price.

If you want a real piece of fine jewelry, find a jeweler you trust, with a reputation, and who makes stuff in-house. That will net you an heirloom quality piece of fine jewelry that will last a lifetime at a fair price.

I could make you a rose gold and sapphire ring identical in shape and size to a LeVian piece. It would be 2/3rd's the price of the LeVian piece and be MUCH higher quality. But, people wouldn't buy it because the bag you take home with you doesn't say LeVian.
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My point was that there's a shitload of jewelry stores out there that promote themselves as mom-n-pop operations, or that they're somehow more exclusive than the places one finds in malls, but are still owned by the same megacorp.

Personally, were I able to find a woman foolish enough to marry me, I'd not broach the idea of marriage if she suggested that she needed any kind of ring before she found me "worthy." I'd happily make her one, or find one that was ethically sourced, but any woman who thinks that I should cough up a specific amount of my income for a bauble before she'd be willing to shack up with me, isn't someone I'm interested in marrying.
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There are women like that?

matthunter · May 21, 2021

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