by Cecile Cinco
This just got in, fresh from the oven.
Goldsmith Jewelry, with over 30 years of business existence in Orlando, is tapping the blogging community to get a wider spread of their new website and celebrate their 3 decades of jewelry service. (If you want others than the earrings, or if you can’t wait till the contest is over, you can select from its high quality collection of bracelets, necklaces and pendants, rings and earrings.)
The winning blogger can choose from any of the 4 choices and each of those are worth $1.5k a pair! I’ve never had a diamond in my life except those printed on 13 playing card pieces! 
It sure will be great, superb, wonderful…to receive any of those as a prize.
If you want an equal opportunity to that Diamond Stud Earring contest, hurry, make your blog post until Feb. 4, 2008 because the next day, Feb. 5, will be the start for voting. Feb. 10 will be the date the winner will be announced so it can be delivered before Hearts Day.
Oh, and even if you don’t win, you get a backlink from Goldsmith.
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on Jan 8th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
It’s really sad that you can be bought and sold on nothing more than a promise and a link from a 2 bit peddler selling rocks dug up from under the earth by African slave labor.
on Jan 9th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Yellow Dog: diamonds have been highly prized for thousands of years, perhaps never more so than today. The situation in Africa is certainly a concern but we use a very reputable supplier in India, a supporter of the Kimberley Certification Process, for the diamonds we use in these earrings and he assures me that he does not sell conflict diamonds. Further, we’re an award winning retailer that has been in business for over 30 years. Hardly a “2 bit peddler”.
on Jan 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Since also being invited to enter this contest, (I didn’t,) I’ve read several discussions sparked by the idea. Made me ask new questions: about how I define spam, about viral marketing & clever ploys to garner online traffic. About targeted links & new ways to spark important conversations.
But I’ve also thought about the human element…the lure of diamonds vs the human toll. Yellow Dog’s comment triggered curiosity I haven’t given much thought to. Diamonds don’t feature into my jewelry designs & I haven’t paid much attention to the diamond mining story. (”Out of sight, out of mind?”)
If Goldsmith Jewelry genuinely cares about providing conflict free diamonds to their customers, perhaps they could address this on their new site. It’s an opportunity to educate some folks, no?
…Was this one of Yellow Dog’s goals all along?
on Jan 10th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Wow, what a rude commentor.
Most people don’t have a clue about the African slave thingy. So, yes, I can be bribed into blogging about a company with the lure of diamonds. But I am glad to hear that they are not derived from a bad source.