Nicrez
Ideal_Rock
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I have to say that there are few things that tend to have their own category, and diamonds are one of them. Contracts on houses, couches, doctor's prognoses ARE NOT buying diamonds.
Why? Because a house contract will most likely be looked over by several people before being signed, including lawyers. I wouldn't sign anything without reading it fully, and making note of something I need clarification on, like Mara. If someone doesn't, they are very very trusting or lazy. A doctor's prognosis, if serious enough is seconded by most people, unless they are trusting or lazy...(or the doctor is related).
Why are diamonds so different? Because the nature of the item. It's a luxury item that is SO steeped in emotion, that a person is uneducated in it (98%) and they WANT to trust someone on the semantics, because they tend to concentrate on the other emotional aspects like HOW to ask, WHEN to ask, WHAT the ring will look like, etc...There is no greater emotional purchase. Not even a house. Do you buy a house just because it's pretty, but one side has a major highway and the other a busy railroad track? NO! You still research houses, more than people research diamonds. They think they are all the same, and that could be because it's in the better interest of the sellers to have us think that. You don't see house sellers tell you that the houses on the block are all the same...
Diamonds are mysterious and alluring. They are enshrouded in ideals of love and people even tie up emotions of if he loved me, I would get a "bigger", "clearer", "whiter" diamond...etc.
People can get married without owning a house, but now adays, can people get engaged without people asking, "where's the ring?" So you see, diamonds are almost a mysterious, emotional, necessary luxury expense, so many people are trapped into buying them trusting someone who wants them to know as little as possible and follow their word on it. SOME of us, don't like that idea, so hence Price Scope...
Why? Because a house contract will most likely be looked over by several people before being signed, including lawyers. I wouldn't sign anything without reading it fully, and making note of something I need clarification on, like Mara. If someone doesn't, they are very very trusting or lazy. A doctor's prognosis, if serious enough is seconded by most people, unless they are trusting or lazy...(or the doctor is related).
Why are diamonds so different? Because the nature of the item. It's a luxury item that is SO steeped in emotion, that a person is uneducated in it (98%) and they WANT to trust someone on the semantics, because they tend to concentrate on the other emotional aspects like HOW to ask, WHEN to ask, WHAT the ring will look like, etc...There is no greater emotional purchase. Not even a house. Do you buy a house just because it's pretty, but one side has a major highway and the other a busy railroad track? NO! You still research houses, more than people research diamonds. They think they are all the same, and that could be because it's in the better interest of the sellers to have us think that. You don't see house sellers tell you that the houses on the block are all the same...
Diamonds are mysterious and alluring. They are enshrouded in ideals of love and people even tie up emotions of if he loved me, I would get a "bigger", "clearer", "whiter" diamond...etc.
People can get married without owning a house, but now adays, can people get engaged without people asking, "where's the ring?" So you see, diamonds are almost a mysterious, emotional, necessary luxury expense, so many people are trapped into buying them trusting someone who wants them to know as little as possible and follow their word on it. SOME of us, don't like that idea, so hence Price Scope...
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