Lab-Grown Diamond

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a lab grown diamond for my engagement ring. That’s what I wanted because I wanted mine made by lab techs making $20/hr with health insurance rather than people with no other options making $2/week in dangerous conditions. Probably neither scenarios are exactly what’s going on but that’s what I was thinking.

This is right on. We should buy fake diamonds because it's better for the environment and all the human beings involved in both processes. Just don't say we should call them real diamonds for those reasons.

They are real diamonds.

[Anonymous]

Who said lab diamonds are good for the environment? The electricity usage is insane. Unless they’re being manufactured somewhere that doesn’t use fossil fuel (DeBeers plans to start production in Oregon where electric is hydro) the environmental impact is probably worse than mining.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a lab grown diamond for my engagement ring. That’s what I wanted because I wanted mine made by lab techs making $20/hr with health insurance rather than people with no other options making $2/week in dangerous conditions. Probably neither scenarios are exactly what’s going on but that’s what I was thinking.

This is right on. We should buy fake diamonds because it's better for the environment and all the human beings involved in both processes. Just don't say we should call them real diamonds for those reasons.

They are real diamonds.

No, they're not. But I'm not going to continue explaining that.

I wonder if the people insisting that fake, lab-made diamonds are real have some kind of investment in the business? Cuz they're not "real" to anyone with any common sense. They used to sell them on TV for like $30, claiming they "looked just like the real thing". Now that they've decided to call them "real" instead of "real-looking" they think they can charge way more for them.

They're not real.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's the difference? If it was something like .78ct. natural vs 1ct. lab grown I'd say just take the natural. But if you'd get 3ct. instead of 1, I say hell ya girl get that rock.

It would be like 2.5-3 instead of 1, yes. So, a pretty significant change.

No. A 3ct fake diamond is vulgar.

Only if it looks fake. Lab created on high a high quality, tastefully designed setting is not vulgar. Diamonds are such a shake down.

It will look fake because it is obvious you and your basic fiancé don’t have the kind of money to frivolously drop on a natural near flawless 3 ct diamond ring.

It’s like the teenagers walking around with giant diamond studs. Pretty sure you don’t need a scope to tell you they aren’t real.

Lol. You realize they don’t use a “scope” (believe you mean loupe) to tell whether it’s mined or lab grown, right? It needs to be run through a carbon testing machine. A jeweler can’t even tell by looking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a lab grown diamond for my engagement ring. That’s what I wanted because I wanted mine made by lab techs making $20/hr with health insurance rather than people with no other options making $2/week in dangerous conditions. Probably neither scenarios are exactly what’s going on but that’s what I was thinking.

This is right on. We should buy fake diamonds because it's better for the environment and all the human beings involved in both processes. Just don't say we should call them real diamonds for those reasons.

They are real diamonds.

No, they're not. But I'm not going to continue explaining that.

I wonder if the people insisting that fake, lab-made diamonds are real have some kind of investment in the business? Cuz they're not "real" to anyone with any common sense. They used to sell them on TV for like $30, claiming they "looked just like the real thing". Now that they've decided to call them "real" instead of "real-looking" they think they can charge way more for them.

They're not real.

Then don’t keep explaining yourself because you’re wrong and no one cares. A lab grown diamond is chemically and atomically the same as a “real” (you mean natural, honey) diamond. You seem very sensitive about the fact that more people will be able to afford big diamonds.

Lab grown diamonds have never been sold on TV. Cubic zirconium and a lab grown diamond are two different things.

If OP is well-kempt and nicely dressed in an understated way, no one - not even a jeweler - will be able to tell it’s fake (though even if she looked like a real housewife your claim “you can tell a diamond is fake by the person wearing it” is laughable).

[Anonymous]

^fake in my final sentence should be in quotes lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^fake in my final sentence should be in quotes lol

Nice try but too late. You made my point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^fake in my final sentence should be in quotes lol

Nice try but too late. You made my point.

I’m typing from my phone and planned to go back and add them later. Sorry. I can tell from your posts you aren’t super intelligent and need everything spelled out for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the difference? If it was something like .78ct. natural vs 1ct. lab grown I'd say just take the natural. But if you'd get 3ct. instead of 1, I say hell ya girl get that rock.

It would be like 2.5-3 instead of 1, yes. So, a pretty significant change.

No. A 3ct fake diamond is vulgar.

Only if it looks fake. Lab created on high a high quality, tastefully designed setting is not vulgar. Diamonds are such a shake down.

It will look fake because it is obvious you and your basic fiancé don’t have the kind of money to frivolously drop on a natural near flawless 3 ct diamond ring.

It’s like the teenagers walking around with giant diamond studs. Pretty sure you don’t need a scope to tell you they aren’t real.

Lol. You realize they don’t use a “scope” (believe you mean loupe) to tell whether it’s mined or lab grown, right? It needs to be run through a carbon testing machine. A jeweler can’t even tell by looking.

WTF are you talking about, “carbon testing machine.” Lab diamonds are made of carbon and look the same under the loupe usually. A gemologist would have to send it to GIA or another lab to separate manufactured diamonds from mined.

Some people in this thread clearly mean CZ, not lab diamonds.

[Anonymous]

Diamonds are a rip off. Don't buy any, fake or real.

[Anonymous]

I, too, would be tempted to get a bigger lab diamond if it meant pissing off the nasty brat in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I, too, would be tempted to get a bigger lab diamond if it meant pissing off the nasty brat in this thread.

Don’t bother. She can tell it’s “fake” by the person wearing it!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the difference? If it was something like .78ct. natural vs 1ct. lab grown I'd say just take the natural. But if you'd get 3ct. instead of 1, I say hell ya girl get that rock.

It would be like 2.5-3 instead of 1, yes. So, a pretty significant change.

No. A 3ct fake diamond is vulgar.

Only if it looks fake. Lab created on high a high quality, tastefully designed setting is not vulgar. Diamonds are such a shake down.

It will look fake because it is obvious you and your basic fiancé don’t have the kind of money to frivolously drop on a natural near flawless 3 ct diamond ring.

It’s like the teenagers walking around with giant diamond studs. Pretty sure you don’t need a scope to tell you they aren’t real.

Lol. You realize they don’t use a “scope” (believe you mean loupe) to tell whether it’s mined or lab grown, right? It needs to be run through a carbon testing machine. A jeweler can’t even tell by looking.

WTF are you talking about, “carbon testing machine.” Lab diamonds are made of carbon and look the same under the loupe usually. A gemologist would have to send it to GIA or another lab to separate manufactured diamonds from mined.

Some people in this thread clearly mean CZ, not lab diamonds.

They must. I have never seen a lab diamond sold for $30...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^fake in my final sentence should be in quotes lol

Nice try but too late. You made my point.

I’m typing from my phone and planned to go back and add them later. Sorry. I can tell from your posts you aren’t super intelligent and need everything spelled out for you.

I actually am super intelligent. At least enough to know when a counterfeit bill is shopped to me and I'm told, "if you look at it closely you'll see it's made out of the exact same material as a real bill --even an expert can't tell the difference!" that doesn't make it a real bill. A real bill is made by the government. A real diamond is made by the earth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I, too, would be tempted to get a bigger lab diamond if it meant pissing off the nasty brat in this thread.

There are lots of us on this thread, not just one. But go ahead and buy a lab diamond if you want to invest your money in pissing people off. It's no better reason I guess than in faking that you own a real diamond.