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Subject: OT: Diamonds are *YOUR* best friend, if you bought any! lol, cash back bonanza

silverblade33 opened this issue on Jan 24, 2008 · 12 posts
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silverblade33 ( ) posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 3:12 AM · edited Thu, 30 January 2025 at 12:13 PM

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SmartSpending/ConsumerActionGuide/BuyADiamondGetARefund.aspx?GT1=10827

basically, De Beers the diamond company, got hit by a massive class action lawsuit, for artifically inflating diamond prices....folks, diamonds are relatively common (well, sort of, small ones anyway udner 4 carats), you've all been HAD  :tt2:
Last I heard De Beers had allegedly a 10,000 ton stock pile of 'em...

anyway, nice big $135 million to give away to ordinary customers, so if you've bought some expensive diamonds or diamond jewellery in past 13 years or so... ;)

I love gemstones, but am quite happy with artificial ones.
 These are mine, about £40 worth, the tiny ones are real aquamarines/garnets, big ones are artificial peridot and artificial aqumarine. :)

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Trepz ( ) posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 10:45 AM

Well,well well.I read the same thing,and i have bought exactly 8.418 karats of diamonds in the past 4 years myself.Wheres my bloody rebate??? I would much rather have the garnets.January is my b-day and damn i cannot find them anywhere in the world,not this big anyway. PM me,maybe we can work something out:D I live in Malaysia,I am sure there might be something you need:D

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Gareee ( ) posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 2:28 PM

There are actually garnets here in nc.. we actually picked some up while horseback riding near an old alum cave.

I'd say the ones we scored were about the size of an american quarter, if it were a ball instead of a disc.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

Trepz ( ) posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 3:30 PM

"nc"    whats that,North Carolina? Niger Congo? North (viet) Cong :D

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Gareee ( ) posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 4:22 PM

North Carolina..;)

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

Trepz ( ) posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 5:38 PM

I assumed so :D I grew up around The Salmon River (CT) had them in very small sand grain size out of there.traveled the world.US first of course,dont know why there near IMPOSSIBLE to find if there so abundant in North Carolina???

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silverblade33 ( ) posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 5:43 PM

Just read on this topic in another forum, here in Scotland, there are garnet crystals one metre ACROSS in size,lol, but I guess not gem quality.

Saw tv documentary with a cave in Sicily, slat mine, had crystals 4m long in it, wow.

Trepez,
sent you a message in site mail :)

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Trepz ( ) posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 6:51 PM

Ok,well they have catfish  big enough to eat a man in the Mississippi River to:D And a Pleseosaur right there in your Loch Ness :D why not garnets 3 feet long :P Dinosaurs that big gotta damn well eat something right (;

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silverblade33 ( ) posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 7:03 PM

http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/john_betts/large_crystals.html
Closer to home in New England, the largest garnet crystal ever found at the Barton Mine, Gore Mountain, North Creek, NY was 0.91 meters diameter and weighed an estimated 1,544 kilograms.
strange world we live in ;)

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Trepz ( ) posted Fri, 25 January 2008 at 3:13 AM

that is outstanding!!! I could really be pimpin with that baby round  my neck :D

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silverblade33 ( ) posted Fri, 25 January 2008 at 9:55 AM

Well, if it was aorund yer neck, you wouldn't get very far :D

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GunnerMan ( ) posted Fri, 25 January 2008 at 12:11 PM

"Well, if it was aorund yer neck, you wouldn't get very far :D"

Wait till Flavor Flav gets a hold of it....

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