On: Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

[dang]

Previous threads on this one:

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405698

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110283

Diamonds are Bullshit:

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17184539

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9251952

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403988

Diamonds Suck:

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17186457

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12944464

Another one from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109318

Diamond threads are forever.

[baal80spam → dang]

Came here to reccommend Diamonds are Bullshit. It's a fantastic piece.

[fmajid → baal80spam]

Indeed, but just as Keynes warned that markets can be irrational longer than you can be solvent, women have been thoroughly indoctrinated by De Beers and it's hard to buck the trend.

[henrikschroder → fmajid]

Marry a guy instead, boom, problem solved!

[nine_k → henrikschroder]

Than you may irrationality want a diamond!

[DonHopkins → nine_k]

"Real men prefer industrial diamonds." -DeBeer's next marketing slogan

[DonHopkins → baal80spam]

And Bullshit is Gold!

https://medium.com/the-hit-job/the-donald-trump-doctrine-bul...

[KON_Air → dang]

From the dates of post we get;

-Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?; September Months from Filing to Divorce:7, June MFD:4, Debruary MFD:0/12

-Diamonds are Bullshit; May MFD:3, March MFD:1, March MFD:1

-Diamonds Suck; May, November, February

There is a study which found spike at filing divorces at February; https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/08/why-divor...

From this with MFD values it is (not) sensible to say these people want a divorce and seriously don't want to keep the ring and disappointed at the prices they got.

Then there is this (probably doesn't really warrant being called a) study put marriage spikes to October, September and June; https://www.theknot.com/content/is-there-an-off-season-for-w...

From this it is (an even shakier prediction) to say these were asked to (or tasked with) buy a diamond ring, vehemently opposed it and wants rest of the world how to avoid it.

[DesiLurker → dang]

yet people keep buying them!