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Bluenile?

  • 09-02-2011 11:48am
    #1
    moco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone got a ring from here before? Are they reliable etc and good quality?

    Thanks,


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  • #2
    Maytrix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭Maytrix


    Blue Nile, an IDA supported, Nasdaq listed company with its European headquarters in Dublin has blocked everyone in Ireland from accessing its Facebook page www.facebook.com/bluenile . Why?

    Blue Nile is one of the world’s leading online diamond retailers. The company promotes itself as a supplier of “ethically sourced” diamonds and claims to have a zero-tolerance policy towards conflict diamonds. According to the company “All Blue Nile diamonds are warranted to be conflict free”. The company promotes itself on Facebook where it has over 90,000 very active subscribers.

    Despite all this, for the past four months the company has censored its Facebook page in an effort to block subscribers who have questioned the provenance of Blue Nile’s so-called conflict free diamonds. Subscribers asked if any of Blue Nile’s diamonds are cut and polished in Israel where the military stands accused of war crimes and other serious human rights violations. According to Israeli economist and author, Shir Hever, revenue from the Israeli diamond industry provides about $1 billion annually in funding for the Israeli military/security industry.

    Some Blue Nile’s Facebook subscribers asked whether or not they are selling diamonds crafted in Israel as conflict free diamonds and how this can be justified given the facts outlined above. The company deleted all such queries without answering the question and blocked scores of people from viewing their page. However, as more and more people, many of them from Ireland, continued to post questions on their Wall the company blocked everyone with an Irish internet address from accessing their page.

    Last week more people outside Ireland posted questions on the company’s Facebook page and once again Blue Nile deleted the questions and blocked people, but this time they also blocked all of their 90,000 subscribers from posting new threads or pictures on their wall. This is a very significant move in this a peak sales period in the run up to Valentine’s Day. It demonstrates how sensitive the company is to revealing where its diamonds are cut and polished.

    The failure of the company to state whether or not is selling diamonds crafted in Israel and the fact that it has employed censorship measures normally only associated with regimes such as the Mubarak dictatorship in Egypt, strongly suggests the company has something to hide.

    If Blue Nile is selling what are de facto Israeli blood diamonds the public have aright to know. Future IDA support for the company should be conditional on a guarantee that it no longer sells diamonds crafted in Israel where revenue from the diamond industry is funding the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory and gross human rights violations.
    http://www.idaireland.com/news-media/press-releases/blue-nile-one-year-annive/

    http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98208?search_text=Blue+Nile


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