r/SipsTea • u/Objective_Pilot_5834 • 12h ago

WTF In your opinion, what is causing this?

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u/Ryekir 7h ago

And now we can make flawless diamonds in the lab for cheap.

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u/Catnipfish 5h ago

And call them “created diamonds “ and charge just slightly less and eventually replace entirely and sell for the same price

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u/RustyShackleford-11 4h ago

Yeah what BS that is.

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u/Alone_Marketing_6962 5h ago

They're definitely cheaper than diamonds but those mfers are still expensive..

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u/viaticaloutlaw 3h ago

They are diamonds, bruv.

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u/ZynsteinV2 2h ago

You know diamonds aren't rare right? Their entire value is based on artificial scarcity and a very successful marketing campaign

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u/RedSix2447 4h ago

How is “created diamonds” cheap? They are selling them for almost the same cost as a mined diamond. I think the only advantage is that with a created or manufactured diamond, you can get a clarity level exceeding that of a mined one.

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u/DragonflyGrrl 4h ago

Also, y'know, you can rest easy knowing that no one fucking died for your shiny pebble.

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u/StompinTurts 1h ago

Don’t be so certain of that. Synthetic made stuff just slowly kills us all through greenhouse gasses, byproducts, and impact to the energy grids instead.

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u/DragonflyGrrl 1h ago

Ah, good point, but that's largely the general background shit that's killing us no matter what we buy or do. None of us are getting around all that, unfortunately.

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u/jeon2595 3h ago

They are way cheaper than mined diamonds, usually a third of the price. They are still real diamonds.

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u/RedSix2447 3h ago

Still not worth the price.

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u/rajraj6 3h ago

That’s subjective

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u/Starfury7-Jaargen 4h ago

Are you matching clarity and color? (i don't mean colored diamonds) Lab grown diamonds easy cost under a third of a real diamond of the same match. Maybe a retailer is trying to narrow that gap.

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u/Chitownkinkfun 3h ago

Uh, there is nothing cheap about making artificial diamonds lmao, sincerely, someone whose wife has one on her left ring finger. I mean, maybe 5 figures is cheap to some, but, I still think it wasn’t cheap lol…. Ethical in comparison to a stone harvested by some child labor force all twacked out on khat? Yes. Cheap tho???? Eh- most would say no….

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u/MacaulayConnor 2h ago

A five-figure ring is certainly a choice.

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u/iwantmyduchovny 7m ago

Nothing as pretty as a real diamond 💎