Talk:Diamonds as an investment

message: Hi, I am not involved with editing this topic, but am just stopping in as a wandering admin. I see that this article has been tagged as disputed for over a year, but there doesn't seem to be any active discussion on it.  Has this been resolved yet?  If not, I recommend either moving forward on resolving the dispute, deleting the disputed information, or else just removing the tag. --Elonka 23:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dispute tag

message: Hi,
I thought I would ask here first, have a look at this site as a reference for current online diamond prices. I think it could be relevant for this article since it shows the market trends with all the diamond criterion available and allow a good overview of diamond investments at particular times (besides that is has a professional information section). Anyway, have a look and if you think it is decent http//wwww.gemisimo.com/ This site was blacklisted by wiki about a year ago but it has improved and it would be great to get an opinion of fellow wikipedians --Davidoff (talk) 12:33, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Diamond prices as a reference

message: I'm no expert, but from everything I've read diamonds become liquid when you have a million dollars worth to sell at one time. Then you can find a broker who will charge a 2-4% commission ($20,000-$40,000 minimum). The broker can put you in touch with potential buyers, including hedge funds, diamond wholesalers, etc. At 1/2 million you might still have a chance, but I wouldn't count on it. 
Also, the standard recommendation is that you should not have more than 10% of your portfolio in alternative investments, with no more than 5% in any asset class (such as gold) and no more than 1%- 3% in diamonds. That means you need at least $30-100 million in your retirement savings account before you are qualified to invest in diamonds.
There is an entire industry devoted to selling "diamonds as an investment" to people who are not remotely qualified. Zyxwv99 (talk) 17:34, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liquidity 

message: This section has nothing to do with diamonds as an investment.
There is an entire industry of professional con artists who purport to sell "diamonds as an investment." This is typical of the sort of "smoke and mirrors" they employ in their marketing literature. They discuss issues that are perfectly legitimate but have nothing to with the subject at hand. Instead, they have merely to do with diamonds in general. In this case, consumers who want cash for their diamonds are selling them to jewelers for 30% - 70% of the wholesale price. Once jewelers come into the possession of jewelers, the diamonds become inventory. At no point in the process is investment involved. Zyxwv99 (talk) 13:38, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually having a recycled diamond market is an important aspect of whether diamonds are a good investment, since they allow for a sale avenue. Liquidity is a perenial problem. Having a developed market for sale promotes price transparency etc. Tsop (talk) 15:43, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete "Recycled Diamond Market" 

message: The Polished diamonds section is overlong and rather confusing to read.  It really needs a rewrite, which I don't have time for right now, but it's the reason I put the "confusing" tag on the article. --Slashme (talk) 15:35, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polished diamonds 

message: Some Italian investors have raised concerns about the behavior of a number of Companies selling diamonds as an investment, through bank channels https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-22/diamond-scam-probe-reopens-scandal-italy-banks-hoped-to-forget. As such, this article should be carefully weighed and reworded to take into account these events, as the absence of warnings - which can also take the shape of undesired and involuntary omissions of information pieces - may be a potential source of confusion for people who try to find third-party information about economy topics.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SuperKotik (talk • contribs) 06:31, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential Issues