| Hi Karen,
I already read the whole article in October. It reminds me strongly of those great predictions that PCs would never be mass market items or that people would not want an actual TV in their houses but rather go to the cinema. The fact is that PCs are mass market items and that people both have TVs in their houses and go to the movies. However, the cinema experience has changed greatly.
The current marine PPB market is very much in a similar situation as the old-style cinema. More and more pearl owners see their marine PPBs disintegrate and either disavow pearls alltogether, get fakes, or inform themselves and buy freshwater cultured ones online. The big losers are the marine PPBs. Of course, there are also freshwater PPBs like coin pearls but those typically have far greater nacre thickness than marine PPBs and are usually used in more fashion oriented pieces that get retired after a few seasons rather than classic strands.
Zeide |