no hun u dont go to a random place n buy a diamond.if u go to a renowned place n buy u know that u have the genuine one,its gonna be an asset all ur life
lolll, you are so funny, i'm not talking about fake diamonds. a real diamond isn't a semi-precious gem. rubies, sapphires, and emeralds are. diamonds are mined by the tons in the past century, but their distribution is highly controlled, so their prices are inflated. ever try to resell a diamond?
go tiffanys and get a nice diamond princess cut ring for say $10,000, put your credit card down as a deposit, and say you want to just try it on and see if you like it. then go immediately to a diamond reseller and see if you can get $3,000 for it. you can't. you can try to convince another tiffanys to buy it, but that won't work either, because they won't buy back their diamonds, their offer would be considered ridiculously low.
buy hey if you like 'em, buy 'em! unlike some people, i don't have a huge moral distaste toward diamonds in that i refused the jewelry my inlaws gave me because it had diamonds (though if i was a better person, i would, children are killed in africa daily in order to finance the blood diamond trade), but i wouldn't purchase one myself or ask my husband to do so.