Newly revised and completely updated, How to Buy a Diamond is the only book on the market to include wholesalers' secret pricing charts athat you, the public, never get to see.

Buyers need a source of expert guidance. Practical, comprehensive and easy to understand, this book offers in depth all the information you need to buy sparkling diamonds with confidence, including: What is a diamond?

... diamonds they had hoarded, burst the price structure for diamonds. They had, however, “little choice but to get involved,” as one De Beers executive explained. Even though the “De Beers Diamond Investments” in Arizona, which had ...

... Diamonds thinking they were mined diamonds. If a jeweler must perform ... small, mined diamond — less than two carats — and expect it to appreciate in ... Sale Only As a giant promotional campaign to introduce the incredible, new Van Pier ...

... little money certainly suffices . The small buyer , generally an energetic , ' cute , active little party , perambulates the claims freely , and buys a few small stones when he can buy cheap . Perhaps , in his day's work , he may buy ...

... small , low - cost operations with few dominant producers ; prices are influenced only by consumer demand and supply availability . De Beers ' gradual loss and giving up of its control of world production and sale of rough diamonds ...