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The "specialness" that some feel toward earth diamonds is just that, their mindset. That's fine and I encourage them to enjoy their perceptions, that doesn't bother me.
For many buyers earth diamonds are nonstarters when it comes to diamond selection and I'm very often seeing condescending remarks in the threads toward lab diamond owners. Suggesting they are imposters and their choices must be judged is an irritation to me, an owner of earth diamonds. Now there are ads being developed to encourage the superiorty posture of earth stones that are the true indications of love. Yuck! Live and let live while enjoying one's personal choices. Why does anyone care what others are wearing in terms of diamonds?
I think many of us were conned by DeBeer's ads years ago.
Sunrise you may not be aware but you have sipped a fair bit of cool-aid.
I would love to be able to set the world straight about the De Beers myths and vaults full of diamonds, but that is like asking a person to change religion. Simply, it s a myth.
Secondly, a lot of natural diamond sellers say bad things about synthetic diamonds. But lets look at where the first massive marketing stones were thrown from by the nascent LGD industry when they had massive marketing budgets.
They changed the official name from synthetic to laboratory, dumped mined, earth grown and earth mined onto the official name - natural diamond.
They played up blood diamonds from the 1990's as a today thing, the environmental damage (bad in both camps, but everything you own was mined or grown on a farm).
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