[Jewelry making - Article 00868] - Re: [Orchid] Blood Diamonds

[Daniel R. Spirer]

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    Blue. So much for assumptions. 

    Ah. That means you're lucky then. It would be interesting to see
    stuff broken down by area but I think you will tend to find more
    politically active people in communities like mine than many others
    and you could pretty much assume that conflict concern would be
    higher here. Additionally, because of all the universities here we
    have a much younger population than other areas and younger people
    tend to be more activist in general. I'm unclear whether I've
    actually lost any sales because of it, but it has become a factor in
    daily conversations. 

    But people's morals are pretty flexible. I had a couple in recently
    and she had all kinds of problems with diamonds in her engagement
    ring--didn't like De Beers, was concerned about conflict, etc. So we
    spent a whole lot of time picking out orange sapphires (small ones)
    for her ring. They placed the order. Later that day the guy comes
    back and says: I was just talking to my aunt about the ring and she
    said she had a diamond ring that we could have and use for an
    engagement ring so we want to stop the order and put the money
    towards our wedding bands. I looked at him and said: But I thought
    she couldn't deal with wearing any diamonds??? He said: Well it's
    from my aunt so she won't mind. Sure enough a week later they came in
    and there she was wearing about a 3/4 ct. diamond ring. And since it
    wasn't a new stone, who knows how many people were underpaid,
    underfed, abused or mistreated to produce that stone. Like I
    said--flexible morals. 

Daniel R. Spirer, G.G.
Daniel R. Spirer Jewelers, LLC
1780 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
www.spirerjewelers.com
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