cubic zirconia jewelry

[CosmicCowboy]

wheres the best place in town to buy good quality fakes? I want to buy some zirconia studs in real gold mounting...

any help would be appreciated...

[Useruser666]

wheres the best place in town to buy good quality fakes? I want to buy some zirconia studs in real gold mounting...

any help would be appreciated...

Well www.cheapbastard.com is down right now so I'm out of ideas.

[CosmicCowboy]

Well www.cheapbastard.com is down right now so I'm out of ideas.

:lmao

cute, but my wife is not hurting for "real" jewelry but I am not buying another real set of studs...they are apparently just too easy to lose...this will be the third set I have bought...

[SpursWoman]

:lol :lol


Foleys..Dillard's....they usually have a good selection of really pretty things. :)

[SpursWoman]

PS - when you bought her the *real* ones...you didn't buy them with screw backs?


You have to be seriously dedicated to getting those bastards off.... :lol

[sbsquared]

I used to work at J.C. Penney and they had some nice ones and they were set in either 10K or 14K gold.

[CosmicCowboy]

yeah, they were the good screw back kind...but she would apparently lose them after she took them out...and don't ask me how...there are some things a smart guy just doesn't ask...like how the fuck can you just LOSE a couple of 1.25 carat VVSI diamonds?

[sbsquared]

Oh BTW, I sold a real nice wedding set to a couple who had been married for a few years. He wanted something nice for his wife, but they just couldn't afford real diamonds. She was okay with the CZ's and they got a real nice set - and nobody had to know the difference!

But I also had a young lady come in to have her diamond engagement ring checked out - imagine her surprise when I had to tell her the diamond was a fake! She was furious - I bet that engagement didn't last long!

Moral of the story - fakes are okay, as long as all parties involved are aware of it and approve!!

[SpursWoman]

yeah, they were the good screw back kind...but she would apparently lose them after she took them out...and don't ask me how...there are some things a smart guy just doesn't ask...like how the fuck can you just LOSE a couple of 1.25 carat VVSI diamonds?



Jeeze..and I never even consider taking off my cheap-y little *chips*....you got me on that one.

:wow :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

oh I had no intention of trying to pass them off as real...but I want high quality settings so she can if she wants to...like I said, she has lots of the real stuff to...

[Kori Ellis]

like how the fuck can you just LOSE a couple of 1.25 carat VVSI diamonds?

Damn, I am always scared to death of losing mine -- LJ got me some last year for Christmas similar to those. How could she lose them after taking them out? That would mean she lost them in your own house ... unless she's taking out her earrings at someone else's house. :wow

[CosmicCowboy]

not to turn this into a bitchfest but she just didn't take care of them...she would take them off when she was out sometimes...Never having had pierced ears I just assumed they got uncomfortable...then she would just put them in the cupholder on her console of her suburban, drop them in her purse, leave them laying out on the counter, etc...

[GoldToe]

Wal-Mart

[Jimcs50]

CC buys the real diamonds for the girlfriend....don't you know how it works?

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

There's a place on Broadway called "Diamontrigue" or something like that.

They have billboards across town, but I know some people that have bought items from them to wear on an everyday basis instead of their real stuff.

[Yonivore]

CZ's are more beautiful and would probably be as valuable if it wasn't for the murdering DeBeers family and the Russian diamond mob.

[Yonivore]

not to turn this into a bitchfest but she just didn't take care of them...she would take them off when she was out sometimes...Never having had pierced ears I just assumed they got uncomfortable...then she would just put them in the cupholder on her console of her suburban, drop them in her purse, leave them laying out on the counter, etc...
Considering how some of the people on this forum behave, I'm betting they were grabbed and pawned while your wife was rubbing her sore ear lobes.

[JoeChalupa]

CZ's are more beautiful and would probably be as valuable if it wasn't for the murdering DeBeers family and the Russian diamond mob.

They'd probably be as valuable if they weren't fake.

[Yonivore]

They'd probably be as valuable if they weren't fake.
Actually, I believe their composition is identical to mined diamonds...it's just that they are created, artificially, in a manufacturing process. So, "fake," isn't entirely accurate.

Speaking of artificial...the price of diamonds has been artificially kept high through some fairly nefarious means by the DeBeers and the Russians.

C'mon they're both carbon, made under extreme pressure at high heat. One -- usually imperfectly -- by nature and the other -- usually perfect -- under strict quality control measures.

Did you know you can now get your deceased loved one turned into a diamond? Cool huh?

[2Blonde]

Did you know you can now get your deceased loved one turned into a diamond? Cool huh?
My husband has always told me that he wants to be cremated and have his ashes scattered in a sand trap on some golf course somewhere. I told him fine, but only after I take my cut and make them into diamonds. RIP ;)

In fact there was an article in last Sunday's paper about that subject.

...2Blonde

[SpursWoman]

My husband has always told me that he wants to be cremated and have his ashes scattered in a sand trap on some golf course somewhere. I told him fine, but only after I take my cut and make them into diamonds. RIP ;)

In fact there was an article in last Sunday's paper about that subject.

...2Blonde


Just out of some twisted curiosity, did they mention how much something like that would cost? :fro

[Slomo]

Just out of some twisted curiosity, did they mention how much something like that would cost? :fro
or how it's done?

[Yonivore]

8 to 15 grand...and, heat and pressure, just like diamonds and CZ. We're all carbon-based.

[timvp]

Sounds like a sweet going away present.

Sign me up.

:smokin

[SpursWoman]

Sounds like a sweet going away present.

Sign me up.

:smokin



That's a long the same lines I was thinking.....I'm not entirely sure it's less creepy than having someone's ashes in an urn on the mantle, but it'd certainly be more durable and less likely to be hit with a ball thrown in the house and dumped all over your living room carpet... :wow :fro

[Spurgal]

Foley's

[2Blonde]

I went back and found the article. Prices vary from about $2500 for a quarter-carat to about $14,00 for a full carat.

The company that makes them is called LifeGem.

LifeGem uses 8 ounces of a persons ashes, typically less than a tenth of a person's total cremated remains, to make a diamond through a process that can take a few months. Carbon extracted from the ashes is subjected to the extremes of heat and pressure, and the resulting stone is cut and faceted like any gem.

The article was on page 1AA of the Sunday paper. It was titled "Ashes to assets: Cremains turned into diamonds"

I would imagine you could probably look them up on the internet.

...2Blonde

[Sportcamper]

Well www.cheapbastard.com is down right now so I'm out of ideas.
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