If Jewelry Commercials Were Honest 

+Tak Wolf Spent 30 years in the jewelry business in various capacities. When I left, it was never to come back. Not the same industry that I started in, and I'm somewhat ashamed I was ever involved.

+John Lewis I commend you, sir, at least you bought your soul back...I have never understood the "magic" in buying a large piece of "real" jewelry, and never will...a guy wants to marry me?...fine, buy me a reliable used car, or payoff a credit card...THAT would impress me.

+M Brown there's a 9999€ Jaguar fo sale hier")

LOL, right?

There's a jewelry school? 🤔

Haha

😭 underrated comment

fancier penguins that are so smart they come up with the dumbest things to balance it out, or even go too far below

Yeah

Why don't you tell us this facts when you sell them 🤨

WOULD IT be ok if I ask you some questions about becoming a jewleery I was thinking about becoming one myself but I wanted to talk to someone experienced first

One day i wll Rob a jeweler Shop

Yikes lol

But it's true

@@kharkovluzhin8333 the fact that it's true is exactly the reason why it's funny

That one killed me too 😂

@@mitchellmonroekleiner2296 Actually, things like crystals, fossils, and various types of rocks are more interesting than diamonds.

"That's love" lol

I love this comment X)

Perfect way to say it

And no amount of truth bombs will shatter that illusion

Chris Freely love your comment. Took a pic of it and am tattooing it on my back 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

@@Alusnovalotus If you do send me a picture!

I can make polycrystalline ruby in my microwave

Tell randy I said hi 👋🏼

@@captainahab5522 Tell me how please

@@dragonfell5078 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ybcdRQmQcHQ.html This is how

And they successfully associated diamond rings with marriage.

Lots of people know that (clearly you and I do). DeBeers does with diamonds what labour unions do with workers: restrict supply to drive up prices.

Half the time, the rings last longer.

Literally everyone knows

@@HotCacahuete holy shit are you selling diamonds via youtube

Or can say bunch of atoms

Flabborst the Sloth I saw you in the comment section of the last video. That's rarer than diamonds!

Amelia Landry I thought every woman was in luv with diamonds lol...

When you start analysing human society you will find that almost everything is stupid or irrational. In my case I have spent a lot of money on video games and game consoles throughout my life. This is arguably worse than jewellery because it wastes both time and money. I see a lot of people criticising women for enjoying jewellery without any self-awareness of their own irrational and arbitrary motivations.

Am the FUCKING 1000th to like this comment

Lmfao

Selling rocks cause idiots buy them

Don't forget they're coated in once liquid metal!

Of course.

@@tinydough8746 do u have a mom yeah she bought it

@@Honesty2025 yea decades ago when most people were illiterate. Today's bitches are well educated yet dumb enough to fall for this shit

agree

for every engagement

Mik Moen You are right. But I suppose it wouldn’t work. Females are strange people.

@nunchaku101 Oh, we have a shiny rock fan over here

yes

Ooh fancy, i only have astm 36 bracelet 🤭

Same. A hard plastic "diamond" with some string attached.

I have a half shell on a string necklace The most expensive part of it is the two tiny silver rings that hold it together

Mine is a broken timex.

I hope you find her. there's a number who think like that.

Thats a keeper but my lovely lady when i bestowed her with a large diamond some years ago the first thing she so beautifully asked was what can i get for it!

My wife and I spent barely anything on our wedding. People nowadays plan a big elaborate wedding but rarely have a plan for marriage.

@ congratulations on 30 years!

thisisJim85 Thank you ☺️

James West it’s leather...dumbass

@@RinCooks OK, plastic coated leather bags.

Yeah, it's innocent animals' skins shaped into purses and bags. 💀 I'd rather it be plastic coated canvas...

@@ES11777 Broke ass vegan

@@ES11777 get off the high horse people eat meat and the skin makes leather if you don't eat meat your opinion don't matter

why is that societies fault? they made a choice to spend a bunch of money they didnt have on something that doesnt mean much. Its not the rest of the worlds fault they, and many like them, are mindless drones.

Joe Joe Well, yeah. They're idiots. Because for some reason they wanted to have an extravagant ceremony. That was my point.It's idiotic that people keep doing this kind of thing.

What?!!!! He could've used that to pay off his debt and still have 1000 left ... How idiotic DX

As they say a sucker is born everyday. And universities and wedding planners and jewellers know that very well.

if I were you, and I'm thankful that I'm not since that would mean I actually care about these people, I'd point and laugh thinking "Dumbasses!" but since I'm not you, nor do I even know these people, I'm just talking hypothetically.

m o o d

Just did

Better if they get caught watching Chinese porn than this video, yep...

😂😂😂 I'm hitting my girl up with this

@@brandonwainscott7491 LOOOL

Yeah, stupid girls who like chick stuff. I'm not like them!! Please like me.

Show her the video.

+Demolition Man In the divorce paper.

+MrHarper2010 *slowly* 👏....👏...👏

A-thank you very much ;) Haha just try and show her the video. I think it absolutely nails the mentality of it all. If that doesn't work, at least you're not stuck on what to get her for her birthday or Valentine's Day or some shit :)

most likely the latter

this should be a super bowl ad. can we get a crowdfunding campaign going in time for 51?

Won't do much, like he said in the video 'you bought this useless pretty things for so much money, that's must be love' (words may vary), and that's the whole point of jewelry marketing. People sorta understand the truth behind jewelries, but still fall for it anyway.

Please do. Pretty please

I was thinking that about all these myself. Lol

I think "you are my light in the dark" is much better than "you are only useful when I need money".

And if you don't have those, you can pay for it using your plastic pocket rectangle.

Chris Burn yeah i was dying 😂

@@AB-jp2eb How did that ruin the joke? Thanks for the needless criticism 🤔

I still wouldn't mind having an impractical rock hat

Too funny🤣

Me 2 😂😂😂😂

And 99% of people wouldn't even be able to tell the difference between a flawless high quality diamond and a cubic zirconia.

Exactly!

Also, we have the tecnology to made not high quality, but perfect diamonds, but since they decide that are fabricated, they dont worth as much as a defective shiny rock they just found.

No natural diamond can ever be 100% pure

Rare... and useless.

@@Snyde91 2:34

Don't forget the pics of dead guys in the paper rectangles.

Will you marry me?

was it necessary to say ur a 25 yr old women

@@xshixlbye-4112 was it necessary to ask that?

Aquazeem was it necessary to ask was it necessary to ask that?

The Martial Arts Approach are u ok. i was just wondering why she didn't just say "i'm 25"

I kinda knew a long time ago.

sousuke Sagara The majority of this world is stuck on stupid.

The diamond industry is actually declining, so there's progress being made.

I'm from 2 years in the future 👻 and no, people didn't learn

Gosh I've thought this for years, I don't wear a wedding ring, engagement ring or God forbid eternity ring and I didn't have an extravagant wedding. Not because I can't afford to, but because I just don't get the need to spend lavish amounts of money professing my love. Some people get married like its a contest. Oh and I've been married to my husband for over 20 years.

Your gramp sure is a million times wiser than my grandma, she told me how beautiful and precious they are, I told her to bury herself when she dead

Deleteth thine profile picture sir. What you have committed was a warcrime

Diamond has lots of industrial uses.

Your profile is giving me ptsd

@@kvltizt just like glass lol

Actually they are rare as fuck you can't just flood em like that

STRIKER RON Is gold rare too? Cause the world leaders have it all.

@@strikerron2252 No they're not. Not only do the mines in South Africa have more than any price could justify (that is, the yield is so high that the cost of extraction is nothing), but laboratory diamonds that are molecularly perfect can be made for very cheaply, too. You can literally grow these "rare" gemstones as many times as you want. It's a load of shit.

@@moefritz6225 world leaders don't own the gold its the organized government who owns it. And its rare to some extent

@@LancesArmorStriking if they are available at plenty it is not enough to crash the value of the diamonds itself

for real

except when used as tooling, conductors, laser diodes, watch bearings, windows, medical devices, drill bits, cutting discs, abrasives, speaker domes, heat sinks, x-ray conductors, microchip transducers, and many laboratory uses... yes they are shiny useless rocks...

JgHaverty Well of course if you're actually going to USE them for a purpose. But for the purpose focused on in the video...useless baubles that have been assigned an inflated value.

pjamese3 Details matter lol

+JgHaverty Don't they make industrial diamonds for those exact purposes now? And have been since the 1950s?

they, like the shiny rocks we found, are also worthless.

Worth of anything even people is in the eye of the beholder. If humans died the rest of life on the planet would go on barely affected. Honey bees have much bigger impact by their extinction. So human are worthless so its OK for them to inflate the value of worthless things since inflate their own value.

I'll just be over in the corner dealing with the existential crisis you just burdened me with

0011peace not exactly true there will be a time when we may well be the only hope anything on this rather large worthless Rock has of surviving the eventual death of the star it orbits.

Erik Simmons but, then if we were gone no one will be here to care. And, if we die who's to say another species won't be able to take our place.

I have a key ring... With keys... They're kinda shiny... And metal.

+SilverStar Heggisist needs more rocks

***** Shiny?

***** birds do this exact same shit.

Jack Oh​ my keys are useful... Funny you should say that... Being a winged stallion, I'm part bird.

Maybe...

The ads wants you to be stupid but they can't stop us all!

Am I the only one who never ever saw a jewerly commercial

I randomly got one when I clicked on the video Google isn't as clever as it thinks it is

The jewelry company paid big money to be on any ad, regardless of the actual content, which had the tag #jewelry on it. That's how RU-vid makes money.

Celestial Dung nah u r not in the jewelry business XD

You got a conscience, thanks for the info.

@@shivangagrawal7737 How would you know?

Straight away you have lost. Diamond cut and polished worth $700 They will try and sell it for $3,000+ Even if they give you a super friendly 40% off they are ripping you off. Then put it isn a fancy design, some gold, other worthless stones, put a story on it....$25,000+ . Diamonds as an investment are a joke...

@@shivangagrawal7737 Baseless assertion is baseless.

Fixed

Cracked Thanks, guys!

Cracked Who played Alan though?

Cracked But who was shiny rock?

Word Unheard Syd Barrett

Haha this one is so fun

Marry her! Lol

lucky guy

Aha just did.

Me and her both.

she's a keeper!!

And brain-dead conformist zombie-like

Joshua Graves: One should almost think the late Pubilius Syrus were of _Jewish_ anchestry . . . .

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In terms of optics moissanite is bascially the more beautiful, yet cheaper diamond. Looks exactly the same, almost as hard and sparkles more. Since i learned as a teen that you can make diamonds, emeralds, rubies and so on cheaply and on an industrial scale i get sad when i see those infomercials for jewelry targeting especially elderly people. Oddly enough, the german name for "jewelry" is "Schmuck". Btw, this baby here is an artificial sapphire the size of a car tire: static.businessinsider.com/image/5409b2a7ecad04257d1fa4b8-400/image.jpg

Elephant in the room : those are still shiny rocks ,the video wasn't about diamonds specifically 😂

@@valentinmitterbauer4196 Why many gems are this expensive is by the process which people break their backs to obtain it. I mean why is Anti-matter as expensive that it will literally destroy the US Treasury. I mean it is just matter that we cannot interact with since it is the opposite to regular matter.

@@firepower7017 I doubt that the people that actually break their backs obtaining these minerals see more than 1% of the final worth, especially when it comes to gems or the tantalum & cobalt in out tech products. Do you really think that De Beers or Apple sell their products at such a high price so they can repay those poor sods in some 3rd world nation or emerging nation fairly?

Id like to Point my Loaded Gun at you and you only have 30 sec to hand me over some nice Jeweler

@@HonderdtachtigCC ok ok here you go a rock that i found it looks beautiful

@@HonderdtachtigCC You do know that many jewelers carry guns too right?

Fantastic 😁

Christopher Storvik And I can make single crystal chromium doped alumina (aka rubies) for about $50 at a profit to put in lasers, but they are useless if used in jewelry.

Christopher Storvik Very true, but the stuff that's useful is typically different from the stuff sold as jewellery. Synthetic diamond is commonly used for blades, and can't be sold as jewellery, while the gold used in electronics is often too pure to be worked into any kind of shape. Both are basically worthless as jewels.

Sure diamond can have practical use in the field of science, but science has managed to create artificial diamond which further proves the worthlessness of mass-mining it

What's funny is that there aren't any wars in South Africa

@@ThapeloMKT theres plenty of civil wars in South Africa.

@@TheHolyFlapjack I live in South Africa

These wars you're thinking about are mostly in the central African regions like DR of Congo and Sudan

Nope . Just political horse shit here . With a pinch of police brutality and a crime rate that is through the roof .

That's amazing, I'm happy for you

CerddWen you paid 75 for small rock

What you have is priceless

Omg that was so sweet 😍 I almost want to get married now and I am not even in love or anything. You are right, it's love that counts. Tainting wonderful things like love, beauty or art with dirty schemes to get more money is disgusting. I for once am an earring afficionado but as long as I like a pair of earrings it does not matter what they are made of. Most of my collection costs less than a dollar per pair

@Bryn Webster They look cool and good. Since she needs a ring anyway, why not have one with a rock, especially if it is that cheap? It was just 75£ after all and they re married and happy.

yup.. thoughty 2 has a good vid on that

The whole world is a lie. Welcome

@@neut1121 Can you link the video? I don't see anything from searching his channel.

@@oo7moses "10 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True"

@@neut1121 Thx

I surely love the way you think... It is all one big illusion

True to an extent. How about you take raw materials and almalgamte them and create everything you use. Bet you can't. Therefore there's value in designing, engineering and building all the things you can't live without or make yourself.

@@ryanjg5136 that's why I said we give the value becuase some are amazing and we cant live without, are expensive for example

Yes. What we value determines our subjective demand. When everyone's subjective demand is taken into account you get market demand. In an actual capitalist system, market demand is contrasted with market supply to determine the market value of a commodity. But the U.S. isn't capitalist. It's cronyist and protectionist. Our government passes laws to protect dishonest and exploitative business practices and uses our armed forces to intervene in the business policy choices of other countries like Iraq, Korea, and Vietnam. They are compensated for these crimes against the free market and against humanity with campaign funding, personal gifts, and, after they finish their political career, a high-paying, virtually no-work position at one or more of the companies they conspired with to undermine human rights and the free market.

These sparkly rocks shouldn't have the value that's been given to them

This is about Minecraft, isn't it?

@@SOAPGames one would hope 😳

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They are not shiny when found...they are rough. They need to be cut and polished...for about $30. Then it's worth $5,000+ to rich Westerners.

Study say the average wedding costs $15k. I'm like, "Umm.....WHY???"

Which is odd, as mossanite is actually rare, unlike diamond which isn't rare at all. But most are artificial moissanites anyway. Still too expensive for a shiny rock ^^

Jewellery diamond $5,000 real worth about $700 LOL. It is a pure con job.

Huma17 ... A diamond ring today has same practical use as it did 5000 years ago as it will 5000 years into the future. Computers and other electronics depreciate rapidly because of advancements in technology. If you took a Radio Shack sale paper from 1999, I'm certain you can find over 50,000$ worth of products which uses is standard in every iPhone. A diamond is worth what somebody would pay. If a guy wants to drop 30,000$ on engagement ring, no problem. If same guy drops 30,000$ on engagement ring simply because "well I don't want to pay that much, but 3 month salary is standard" then that person is an idiot

@Huma17 that's ok, beacuse there is the mark-up added to the good for the profit of the producer and the seller. But with jewelry this goes crazy. It's more than 100% in most cases. This is the "scam". They make people believe that's if you can afford to waste money on diamond you truly love your beloved.

Huma17 i think you dont get it..what if you resell your gold what happens then??👀

@@chinot-8004 if you talk about jewelry made of gold you'd loose a lot of money. If you talk about gold as a metal for investment you'd keep the value in time gaining maybe some small percentage. Or loosing some but never comparable to jewelrys.

+Bruce Valladares money can buy many peanuts.

Do you like to eat?

most of the time, not really.

@@bruceyval_9761 you can trade diamonds for goods too..

@@bruceyval_9761 there is a short supply of money because the government says so, lol.

computernerd1101 I know that the only thing of great value on the basis of rarity and potential for storage and applications is gold.

Thats like saing that Tritium is comon because Hydrogen is the most common element. The allotrophic modification known as diamonds IS rare. Coal?no lol

@@the7esla989 platinum. Silver. Palladium. But that's ONLY if they dont find massive amounts of it on an exoplanet lol

It's expensive because "marketing made it so" that's all. De Beers spend about $50m+ a year on "branding diamonds" And stupid emotional women fall for it

@@momentumstocks3493 women? Hmm more like rich ass men think they are a perfect way to buy a woman and some women are indeed gold diggers lol

This is why I'm glad the person in my life doesn't like c*** like this Screw the diamonds we'd rather spend the money on an experience to remember

Or women who like shiny rocks

Probably people who own shiny rocks and regard them as their passport to feeling superior to those around them.

@@Catubrannos That's more likely. They know if the attitude in this video spreads, the "value" of their "investment" will plummet 🙂

john smith Your mother is #TheRealMVP

No, she yelled because she thought, he cheated.

Hypersomnie 🤣

Shes a keeper!

looks like you found the rarest of gems

$40.......Wow.....what did you eat?

sdfbtnsfgd YOU are a real keeper...

Shes wife material.

@MegaFelicks Like a witch trial. If she burns she's innocent. If she doesn't we run.

@@Catubrannos but after confirming which, it doesn't do you good.

Also fun fact, Diamonds aren't very easy to set a fire that is long lasting, you need to supply a lot of oxygen, so get your leaf blower or smthing along that line otherwise it will only burn for like 2 seconds, very impractical as a reasonable fuel, should just get charcoal instead, hella cheaper and burns way easier.

@@adamxue6096 Point is, a diamond is not forever, like De Beers claimed it is back in 1947.

Diamond is basically just coal with a really tight carbon structure due to being exposed to high pressure (~1.5GPa), to actually get the carbon in Diamonds to burn you need a lot of oxygen to get it to react with the carbon.

@Sir Embrum49 The Great Moth not always, as is the case with jaspers, pearls, lapis lazulis, and turquoise.

Jesus Christ, Michael, they're minerals!

@@michaelfixedsys7463 Still rocks that cant be used for anything other than to say: It looks pretty. I mean just grab a piece of bismuth to a fancy party and say "this is rare alien rock" and half people there would be like "wooooow"

Yes I want

Screw all that useless expensive rocks, all we need is a house and a stable business

@@kharkovluzhin8333 marry me

@@let716 lmao

XD

But paper beats rocks?

@@shanelawrence7438 shields made of metal not paper

@@shanelawrence7438 Exactly what I was thinking. Clearly Stephen never played. Shame.

Nope, your shiny rocks aren't worth anything. Only their shiny rocks are allowed to be expensive.

depends how big his is xD

They have no resale value.

Wait!! What's the resale value for my family jewels?

@@JohnDoeKek Actually, you should probably keep your hands on your family jewels.

The_Answer Is and the buyers remorse

That's where the huge mark up is made....simply selling to ignorant people with more money and ego than sense. I see rough diamond jeweller going for $15,000+...real cost about $2,000 Any one tries to make such a big mark up is a "scammer" It's a crazy work we live in. It's all about "perception"

@@momentumstocks3493 I hear everything in jewelry stores are fake

Because it's familiar and true perhaps?

I understand. Especially the yelling at the other employee part. While it was not exactly like that, it was implied just about the same. I didn't know people were so particular about what was in a display case until I worked selling jewelry. Haha

First

2nd. I....I can't believe I just became "that guy".

first person to say he's third lmfao

He's right though, diamonds are pretty common.

pretty much **badumchum**🥁

High turnover in mall jewelry stores. Like McDonald's.

Certain topics call certain people I suppose.

why would you expect that???

kakashi76767 Because Cracked is becoming more and more like CH.

Mystogan Edolas example?

modelmajorpita give an example

Cracked is vastly superior to College Humour, CH lacks Seanbaby and Chris Bucholz

You mean "Dollars"? Because the rest of the world are backing it with gold.

Bo_Hazem that’s the irony, American money means something in every country even though it has no value lol 😂

@@AGemFromJax My country, Oman, uses Dollar as its umbrella, like many others. But all countries pack tons of gold in case shit hits the fan, so you'll be immune and can jump off the ship safely. And because oil is not allowed to be sold with gold or you'll be invaded and screwed like Iraq and Libya.

E. N. Israel That’s why you should buy some Gold or Silver,,fancy paper 🧻 is just fancy paper...I agree...

I bet you go to work though for it don't you

In what way is it fake? Who decides if it's fake?

Mystogan Edolas Good point. I guess imitation shiny rock would be the better term.

How do you do your magical spells then ???

The Sqoou I find that blood magick is much cheaper and more ethical.

might aswell buy some wooden beads

Why didn't you go to the local toy store then and buy a plastic ring?

@@Catubrannos Right! *Says it's all about the "love".....but still made significant other buy shiny gold/diamond bauble. Yep, toooootaly about the "love" hahaha*

Saved you?

Don't worry about it I think he’s now going propose with a ring pop

@@DelphineTheWorstBladeEver ye he doesnt have any money and need to find something to convince his gf shiny rock is bad

Think about all those people who spend thousands so that they can sit down in front of a screen for much of their lives and do nothing but move colour pixels around.

Cynicalisrealist Hold up, there is no shame in liking things, regardless of the value said thing have