Notice how martin tries to lengthen useless threads
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> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:38:54 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:
>
>>William Black writes:
>>
>>> Like I said before, in the end you always end up with someone selling
>>> finished jewellery or someone with a bag of cubic zircona.
>>>
>>> Apollo Diamonds won't sell loose stones to jewellers.
>>
>>Probably Apollo doesn't want anyone to be assassinated.
>>
>>> Nor will any of the other big US diamond simulant manufacturers...
>>
>>They are not manufacturing simulants, they are manufacturing real
>>diamonds.
>>
>>> Neither do they seem to sell their stuff in any quantity into the trade
>>> but
>>> are quite happy to sell miniscule amounts of the stuff to the public via
>>> badly designed web sites.
>>>
>>> I wonder why...
>>
>>Probably because De Beers has spent half a century building up 95%
>>mark-ups on
>>diamonds that are hardly worth anything,
>
> Some what longer than that.
>
>> and they want to cash in on the same
>>greed with similar margins. Why strangle the golden goose?
>
> Golden goose and not the goose that lays the golden eggs?
>
>> But you can be
>>sure that their costs are very low. And who knows what negotiations are
>>going
>>on behind the scenes?
>
> In an over heated broom cupboard? If they find out they will have to kill
> you.
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>
> Martin
>
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