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Is platinum more valuable than diamond?
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Is platinum more valuable than diamond?
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If no, why do credit cards and memberships to hotels, spas, sex dungeons, etc., put platinum memberships over diamond memberships?
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Re: Is platinum more valuable than diamond?
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Not reasonable to take the views of marketing people as being the truth.
However, most people compare cut diamonds to raw unworked platinum which isn’t a good comparison.
Cutting a diamond requires great skill and adds a lot to the value. If raw platinum is worked into a finished piece it’s value increases, by how much depends on the skill of the artist.
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Re: Is platinum more valuable than diamond?
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Not all diamonds are equal in value: there's a big difference between a flawless gemstone and an industrial grade for abrasive use.
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Re: Is platinum more valuable than diamond?
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A diamond credit card would be useless for opening Yale locks, and would destroy your car windows if used as an ice scraper. Neat handcuff-cutting tool for James Bond, though.
I defer to PiM's intimate knowledge of sex dungeons, but I would have guessed that to be more of a cash trade.
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Re: Is platinum more valuable than diamond?
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A diamond credit card would snap when you sat down (I assume everyone puts their cards in their back pockets).
A platinum card would bend.
More importantly, all other things being equal, a 10 gram bar of platinum is worth almost exactly 10 times as much as a 1 gram bar.
But a 10 carat diamond is worth much more than 10 times as much as a 1 carat one.
Essentially because you can weld platinum, but not diamond.
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Oh dear. Now you have told PiM that size matters. We'll never hear the end of it.
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Quote from: alancalverd on 11/07/2022 18:57:10
you have told PiM that size matters
I presume he has already been told.
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Re: Is platinum more valuable than diamond?
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Is it something to do with anniversarys, oak is better than diamond and granite is the tops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniversary#:~:text=An%20anniversary%20is%20the%20date,Catholic%20feasts%20to%20commemorate%20saints
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Re: Is platinum more valuable than diamond?
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It all depends on the quality and deposit of these jewels.
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