Hint : It ain't 500%

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Originally Posted by Pythonfriend

guys and girls, i think this was meant as a joke :) just wanted to clarify, because other posts are quoting it. for high-clarity white diamonds the situation is that they are almost equally expensive, laboratory diamonds are just a little bit cheaper, and laboratory diamonds are limited to 2 carats in size.

so when you are looking for a 7000 dollar round brilliant cut white diamond, with high color and clarity and ideal cut, chances are that your cheapest option is a natural diamond. that holds true. you can get that as a laboratory diamond for 7000 as well, but there is no price difference. and larger white diamonds are only available as naturals, and in smaller diamonds the naturals still compete on an equal level with synthetics. currently the synthetic diamonds only rule in color. when it comes to fancy colors, they rule in price, because natural colored diamonds are extremely rare.

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Yes, that was a joke.

A one carat diamond (cut correctly) is about 6.5mm. This is retail pricing for synthetics. A natural diamond that would be comparable would cost about $4700-5700, depending on quality. I'm accounting for the fact that synthetic diamonds would not fall into the colorless/near colorless range. So I'm talking about a J/K SI - ish stone for comparison purposes.

I said synthetics aren't cheap. They are significantly less expensive than naturals though.

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Originally Posted by BrandiR

Yes, that was a joke.

A one carat diamond (cut correctly) is about 6.5mm. This is retail pricing for synthetics. A natural diamond that would be comparable would cost about $4700-5700, depending on quality. I'm accounting for the fact that synthetic diamonds would not fall into the colorless/near colorless range. So I'm talking about a J/K SI - ish stone for comparison purposes.

I said synthetics aren't cheap. They are significantly less expensive than naturals though.

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i want to buy some!!!! are you able to sell them at anywhere near these prices? 1 carat rock for 645 dollars, are you kidding me? gimme gimme gimme i buy. i would manage to get them sold fast enough so that you just need to keep them coming. if thats true, we got a money machine here :)

are you sure these are not buyback guidelines? if these are sales prices, it should be easy to get an army assembled to buy them up each day for the next years. of course any buyback guidelines would factor in profits, and the possibility that synthetics might plummet in price. which they never did and wont. and of course it doesnt mean that you can actually get a diamond for that price. these prices are significantly lower than wholesale. natural or synthetic, these prices are idiot-proof: whoever can buy anything at these prices will profit, synthetic or natural.