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Actually most people should not buy a man made diamond. They are rarely well cut, the selection is poor, and the certificates are just so-so. GCAL is good but you can't translate GCAL to GIA the way you can translate AGS to GIA. In high colors they tend to be gray, not yellow, and while they generally have fewer inclusions, they may have inclusions not found in mined diamonds. And last, but not least, the whole market is soaked with frauds selling $1 worth of CZ, because if you can't tell CZ from diamond, you likely can't tell $1 CZ from $100 CZ either.
All this adds up to more work to find one, and pretty much impossible to do a head to head comparison with a mined diamond. Which makes it easy to convince people they are getting a bargain compared to a mined diamond, when you might actually do better with an ideal cut diamond with a drop in color and clarity, which also pretty much means a mined stone.
So what's the appeal? What's the appeal of mined diamonds? To quote the great Neil Beaty:
Diamonds are cool. Lab diamonds are cool.
There are a pretty decent number of people who specifically want a lab diamond, and they deserve to get help picking one out without a bunch of judgmental people lecturing them.
All this adds up to more work to find one, and pretty much impossible to do a head to head comparison with a mined diamond. Which makes it easy to convince people they are getting a bargain compared to a mined diamond, when you might actually do better with an ideal cut diamond with a drop in color and clarity, which also pretty much means a mined stone.
So what's the appeal? What's the appeal of mined diamonds? To quote the great Neil Beaty:
Diamonds are cool. Lab diamonds are cool.
There are a pretty decent number of people who specifically want a lab diamond, and they deserve to get help picking one out without a bunch of judgmental people lecturing them.