The "I Just Bought" Brag Thread?

You were smart to back away as Ed said TBK, as getting into the diamond game right now with the hope of turning a profit is a fine way to loose your shirt if one invested enough....

It blows my mind how we add a dollar or three on to offers for each tiny cut diamonds are they just are not worth much right now. As they are all but worthless. A half a karat or more, then you are talking some value, but not much. The stone setting actually costs you KEY gold weight on resale, as for example if I lay a bracelet on the scale that comes in at 7.20 pwt, then we might take away say down to 7.00. And always better to be safe an take a little more, then a little less, depending of course on stone size when figuring the value of the gold item in question....

Unless you are sharp like a couple of members here an know how to make jewelry an cut stones, probably best to stay away from them, minus getting them real cheap, and again in large karat size....

No doubt, Fredd. Not only that but artificial diamonds are not that difficult to make with the right equipment and they can be either uber pure or salted with the same impurities common among natural diamonds. I would think that the latter of these would be quite difficult to tell from natural stones.

Many years ago, my wife conned me into going into a jewelry store and looking at some diamond jewelry. She was ooh-ing and ahh-ing over various diamond rings and finally asked me what I thought of one ring in particular. I replied that it looked a lot like 5 grams of gold with 1/3 of a gram of tetrahedral carbon stuck to it. She was not amused.

So some scrap into the rally today and bought this. I have been sitting a bag of scrap for about a year now and decided to liquidate it and diversify into a different game, and by different game I mean full retail. Oh well I like it and this is a brag thread so here it is.

Last night I won the bid for a gold bar


ok, it was only 1 Gram, but I needed a gold bar to complete my metal bar collection.

Once it gets here, I will have a bar of Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Gold, Lead, Nickel, Palladium, Platinum, Silver, Tin, Titanium, and Zinc. Most were purchased as a curiosity.

Fuzzy, now you need a nice Rhodium coin, and last time I checked, they go for premiums equal or higher to platinum, IF you can find one....

Best example I could find for you Fuzz, via a 30 second search. And trust me did not take long, very hard to find these, and this is the best priced one on ebay....


http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Gram-Eagl...em3cbeb7f527

Did you ever notice if you buy gold coins the wife just looks and says something like why are you spending our money. However if you buy a rock for her finger she thinks this is the greatest investment of the household money.

Diamonds are still a girls best friend.

Silverhawk,

That rolex is stainless steel, submariner model. Rolex introduced this to try to capture the younger generation into buying what most consider a "retirement watch" brand. Me being younger 27 I own two rolex's both I barely never wear due to there old man look, I prefer my Tag Heuer watches they seem to have the right look for the younger generation.