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Originally Posted by Marama 
... GIE PdT, ...concerning the efficiency of the promotion is less than 10 new customers in the last 10 years of activity... the GIE PdT have used more than 100 millions USD in 10 years.
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By these numbers, those 10 customers better be mighty big ones, LOL!
Thanks for the story of pearls and prices. Any guess for what's the main culprit(s) for the price drop? Is it something about the way black pearls are produced or mainly things independent of the sector altogether?
The story of perverse incentives you describe in the first post here would be enough for gloom and doom any day... however, it seems that with a limited number of black pearl growers working at arm's length more or less, a 'run to the bottom' is not so obvious.