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In this Rob Bates article, Martin Rapaport talks about diamond dealers being crucial to the trade, then about the need for greater diversity within the trade. From there he talks about Estate Jewelry and also branding and about retailers needing to have the ethics to tell their clients up front that synthetic values will continue to drop. I know a lot of jewelers and dealers love to dislike Martin, but he made my life so much better when he started publishing his price sheet back in the 70's. The man saved me and other jewelers out in the boondocks a LOT of money. He also earned the enmity of many in the trade who could no longer get the margins from those of us not in NY or LA that they had come to take for granted as theirs. I even took a copy of his report to a federal trial I was an expert witness in against DeBeers Consolidated Mines, Inc. (Not Limited) in AZ. That is another story for another time.
You can read the article here.
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You can read the article here.
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