kenny|1313707641|2993764 said:What are they?
Amys Bling|1313874309|2995198 said:I'm excited to see what you do with the rough stones.
kenny|1313874497|2995201 said:Amys Bling|1313874309|2995198 said:I'm excited to see what you do with the rough stones.
Me too, especially now that the plan to sell it on Pricescope has blow up in her/his face.
Expecting to profit from reselling rough diamonds absurd, unless you are in the uuuuuuuuuuuuuuber-exclusive IN-crowd.
you purchased these on Ebay?? how do you know that they are diamonds?JRB|1313880872|2995261 said:Any profit from selling roughs anyone can do, You see them on ebay all the time. If you get the right stone at the right price you can have it cut for £100 a carat and but a nice stone for a few hundred pounds.
kenny|1313874497|2995201 said:Amys Bling|1313874309|2995198 said:I'm excited to see what you do with the rough stones.
Me too, especially now that the plan to sell it on Pricescope has blow up in her/his face.
Expecting to profit from reselling rough diamonds absurd, unless you are in the uuuuuuuuuuuuuuber-exclusive IN-crowd.
denverappraiser|1313931567|2995573 said:I’m glad you’re happy with your purchase but I do have a few corrections of your facts.
The company’ that you’re concerned about, which I’m assuming is DeBeers, is under a 40% market share right now. A 40% global market share of ANYTHING is nothing to sneeze at but it’s hardly the worldwide domination that you describe. They do not control the flow of diamonds in any meaningful way, they haven’t for many many years, and they couldn’t even if they wanted to.
Antwerp is NOT a diamond source. That’s a trading and cutting center that largely came about by the actions of the very company you’re complaining about. There are certainly some fine dealers there but, thanks to FedEx and similar services, that’s really no closer to the ‘source’ than anywhere else on the planet. There’s nothing about buying there that’s any better or worse than most of the rest of the world other than the possibility that the dealer you want to work with happens to want to live there. It IS a pretty nice place.
Ebay isn’t a diamond source either. That’s just an advertising venue made up of individual sellers promoting their own goods. It’s a comparatively expensive way to sell by the way. Buying rough on ebay and hiring a local cuter to work on it is ABSOLUTELY NOT a viable business venture. Cutting and selling diamonds is a tough business that’s full with risks and costs that you aren’t expecting. The reason to sell the stones in rough form to amateurs on ebay is precicely because they aren’t suitable for cutting. You’re cutter knows this. All of his/her competitors know it. I suspect YOU know it. That’s why the seller put it there and that’s why the insiders leave it alone. Outside of mineral collectors an others who plan to keep it in it’s natural state, this is a 100% sucker deal.
Buy a diamond specimen on ebay or from a merchant in Antwerp if you want one, they’re cool little things, but don’t leap from that to feeling that you’ve outsmarted the men in black and found a path to easy money by doing this. It simply isn’t so. Diamond mining doesn’t work that way, cutting doesn’t work that way, and selling things doesn’t work that way.