Why Buying Pre-Loved Luxury Diamond Jewellery is an Investment

I agree there are other ways of investing. Again, this is not referring to 'Brand New' Diamonds, but 'Pre Loved' Diamonds. We really need to make this distinction here.

If an item is bought brand new for $10,000, that person trying to sell it would be lucky to get $1,500 second hand from a pawn shop. Therefore the article is saying, say this pre-loved second hand diamond is purchased privately for $3000 - the item can be an investment. If that $3000 diamond is a branded piece, ie Cartier, Tiffany etc, that value will increase in time as the company raises it prices based on the company doing well (and ALL luxury brands recurrently do this), the economy, the US dollar, etc. That $3000 dollar diamond may be worth $6000 in a few years time.

The source is not a jeweller, but a collector. That's a big difference.

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