Disadvantages of Lab-Grown Diamonds: What Buyers Should Know
By
Tiffany Moore , Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Lab-grown diamonds have surged in popularity, often appearing in the most popular diamond cut styles from
brilliant rounds to
elegant emeralds. Yet beneath their appeal lie drawbacks many buyers discover only after purchase: concerns about resale value, lower perceived rarity, inconsistent quality, and questions about long-term investment potential. This article examines the real disadvantages of lab-grown diamonds, helping you make an informed decision about whether synthetic diamonds meet your expectations for durability, authenticity, and lasting value.
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Summary
- Lab-grown diamonds currently cost significantly less than mined diamonds of comparable quality—often in the range of 60–80% lower at retail. In recent years, prices for one- and two-carat lab-grown diamonds have declined substantially as production technology has advanced and manufacturing capacity has expanded.
- Half of millennial and Gen Z couples now choose engagement rings with lab-grown diamonds, according to McKinsey research. This widespread adoption creates social comfort and makes the choice feel mainstream rather than risky.
- The resale market for lab-grown diamonds remains underdeveloped compared to the established infrastructure supporting natural diamonds. Sellers attempting to resell lab-grown diamonds frequently report receiving offers around 10% of the original purchase price, and many traditional jewelry buyers either decline lab-grown diamonds entirely or apply steep discounts that reflect uncertainty about future demand.
- Superior cut quality determines a diamond's brilliance, fire, and scintillation, regardless of whether it was formed underground or in a laboratory. Two diamonds with identical grading reports can look noticeably different in person because certificates measure compliance with minimum standards, not optical excellence.
- Global economic growth is projected at 2.7% in 2025, according to the UN Trade and Development creates pressure on discretionary purchases, and lab-grown diamonds occupy a category where consumers can easily defer or downgrade spending.
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Why Lab-Grown Diamonds Seem Like an Easy Choice
The appeal is immediate and rational. You get a diamond that looks identical to a natural diamond, often at a price point that leaves room in your budget for a larger carat weight, better color grade, or higher clarity. For someone making their first major jewelry purchase while juggling wedding costs, housing goals, or student debt, that math feels impossible to argue with.
Price Advantage of Lab-Grown Diamonds
Price drives most of the conversation.
Lab-grown diamonds cost 60-80% less than mined diamonds of comparable quality. That difference translates directly into visual impact: a two-carat lab-grown diamond might cost what you'd pay for a one-carat natural diamond. When you're trying to balance sentiment with practicality, that feels like a straightforward upgrade.
Marketing Shapes Perceived Value
The marketing narrative reinforces this perception. Lab-grown diamonds are framed as modern, technologically advanced, and financially savvy. They're positioned as the logical choice for couples who value substance over status, who want beauty without the baggage. That message resonates strongly with younger buyers who are wary of overpaying for something they can't see or measure.
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Peer Influence and Social Validation
Social validation amplifies the appeal. When half your peers are choosing lab-grown diamonds, the decision stops feeling risky and starts feeling mainstream. You're not experimenting; you're joining a movement. That shift matters emotionally, especially on a purchase this symbolic.
The Pressure Underneath
What makes lab-grown diamonds feel like the easy choice isn't just the lower price. It's the promise of resolution. Buyers carry a quiet fear of regret: Did I overpay? Did I settle? Did I make a mistake on something this permanent? Lab-grown diamonds appear to dissolve that tension by offering size, beauty, and affordability simultaneously. You don't have to choose between what you want and what you can justify.
Immediate Financial Comfort
That relief is real. When you're navigating competing financial priorities and trying to make a once-in-a-lifetime purchase feel responsible, lab-grown diamonds seem to solve the equation. You maximize visual impact without the guilt of overspending. You stay within budget without feeling like you compromised.
Deferred Awareness of Trade-Offs
The problem is that this sense of resolution often comes before buyers understand what they're trading. The upfront savings are visible and immediate. The long-term considerations around resale value, market saturation, and emotional significance surface later, sometimes years later, when the decision is already made.
When Cut Quality Matters More Than Origin
The visual beauty of any diamond, natural or lab-grown, comes down to one factor: how well it's
cut. A poorly cut natural diamond will look dull next to a precision-cut lab-grown diamond, regardless of origin. Most buyers don't realize this because retail messaging focuses on carat weight and price per carat, not light performance.
When buyers prioritize size over cut quality, they often end up with larger diamonds that underperform visually. The lab-grown market is flooded with diamonds that meet basic grading standards but lack the optical precision that creates brilliance and fire. Without access to imaging tools that measure light return, buyers can't distinguish between a well-cut diamond and one that simply looks acceptable under store lighting.
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The Adoption Curve Creates Comfort
According to McKinsey, half of millennial and Gen Z couples pick engagement rings with lab-grown diamonds. That rapid adoption creates a sense of safety. When this many people are making the same choice, it feels less like a gamble and more like common sense.
Popularity Doesn’t Guarantee Long-Term Value
But widespread adoption doesn't resolve the underlying questions about long-term value or emotional meaning. It just makes those questions easier to defer. The comfort of following the crowd can mask the reality that lab-grown diamonds behave differently in the resale market, depreciate faster, and may not carry the same heirloom significance decades from now.
The easy choice often becomes the default choice, not because it's wrong, but because it delays harder conversations about what you actually value in a diamond beyond its appearance and initial cost.
Rapid Price Declines and Depreciation Risk
The lower upfront cost of lab-grown diamonds creates immediate savings, but that same affordability signals a structural pricing problem. Unlike natural diamonds constrained by geology and mining capacity, lab-grown production scales with manufacturing efficiency. As technology improves and more producers enter the market, supply expands without a ceiling, pushing prices steadily downward.
Rapid Price Decline of Lab-Grown Diamonds
The trajectory is already clear. Lab-grown diamonds now cost up to 85% less than comparable natural diamonds, according to Quartz. More revealing: the average wholesale price of one and two-carat lab-grown diamonds has fallen by as much as 96% since 2018, according to diamond industry analyst Edahn Golan.
Retail pricing lags behind wholesale shifts, but the direction remains consistent. The diamond you buy today at what feels like a fair price may be significantly cheaper to produce within a few years.
Falling Production Costs Reshape the Market
Lab-grown diamonds are produced through repeatable industrial processes. As equipment becomes more efficient and production scales, the cost per carat drops. There's no geological scarcity acting as a price floor. Each improvement in manufacturing technology directly translates into lower production costs, which eventually filter down to retail pricing.
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This creates a dynamic where today's purchase price reflects current production costs, not future market conditions. A diamond that commands a premium now could become far less expensive to produce as technology advances. Buyers who focus solely on the savings at purchase often miss this longer arc.
The Resale Ecosystem Remains Underdeveloped
Natural diamonds benefit from decades of established trading infrastructure. Auction houses, estate buyers, and specialized dealers create liquidity. Lab-grown diamonds lack that same resale network. Many buyers discover this gap only when they attempt to sell.
Low Offers and Discounted Buybacks
One seller on Reddit described trying to resell a lab-grown diamond and receiving offers around 10% of the original purchase price. The commenter who responded admitted they kept their ring after seeing similar offers, adding, "I'm so glad I did."
That pattern surfaces repeatedly. Buyback programs, when they exist, offer significantly lower prices than natural diamond equivalents. Private resale platforms exhibit wide pricing variation, and many traditional jewelry buyers either decline lab-grown diamonds entirely or apply steep discounts reflecting uncertainty about future demand.
Pricing Confusion in Resale Markets
The confusion isn't just emotional. Another seller posted, "Clueless. Don't know much about any of this," while trying to price a lab-grown diamond for resale.
They understood depreciation in theory but struggled to translate that into realistic pricing when comparable listings ranged wildly. Even having an IGI certification didn't clarify whether they could recover meaningful value in a market experiencing rapid price compression.
Upgrade Programs Reflect Retailer Uncertainty
Many jewelers offer lifetime upgrade programs for natural diamonds, allowing customers to apply the full original purchase value toward a larger diamond later. These policies are less common for lab-grown diamonds, and when they exist, they often carry more restrictions. Retailers face the same uncertainty buyers do: if wholesale prices continue to fall, honoring full credit for a lab-grown diamond purchased years earlier exposes them to financial risk.
Without a strong upgrade pathway, buyers lose flexibility. The ring that fits your budget and taste now may not align with what you want five or ten years from now, and limited upgrade options mean you're starting over rather than building on your original investment.
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The Misconception Around Value
The assumption that a lower purchase price automatically translates into better long-term value misses how depreciation works in practice. Value depends on pricing, durability, market demand, and future liquidity.
For lab-grown diamonds, rapid technological progress and expanding supply create conditions in which prices may continue to decline, making depreciation risk more significant than the initial savings suggest.
Comparing Dollar vs. Percentage Loss
A natural diamond purchased for $10,000 might resell for $4,000 to $6,000, representing a $4,000 to $6,000 loss. A lab-grown diamond purchased for $2,000 to $4,000 might have essentially no resale value, meaning you lose the entire amount.
The absolute dollar loss is smaller, but the percentage loss is total. Which outcome feels worse depends on whether you prioritize minimizing total dollars lost or preserving some fraction of your original investment.
Purpose vs. Resale Value
The real question isn't whether depreciation happens. It does, regardless of origin. The question is whether the diamond's purpose in your life centers on visual beauty and personal meaning, or whether future resale value matters enough to influence your decision now.
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Perception and Emotional Considerations
Some recipients care deeply about whether their diamond formed underground over billions of years or was created in a laboratory in a matter of weeks. For them, the geological origin carries symbolic weight that visual beauty alone cannot replace. Others view the distinction as irrelevant, focusing entirely on how the diamond looks and what it represents in their relationship. Neither perspective is wrong, but the mismatch between partners' values creates tension that price comparisons never resolve.
The romantic appeal of natural diamonds centers on rarity and deep time. Wearing something that crystallized three billion years ago, before life existed on Earth's surface, carries emotional resonance that manufactured diamonds cannot replicate. One person described the feeling as "wow, this is 3 billion years old," capturing the awe that geological origin inspires. That connection to natural history feels meaningful in ways that transcend visual appearance or chemical composition.
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When Partners Hold Different Values
The most painful version of this decision surfaces when one partner assumes preferences without asking. Someone who prioritizes budget efficiency and visual impact may choose a lab-grown diamond, only to discover later that their partner feels the diamond isn't truly "theirs" because it lacks the natural origin they valued. The diamond wasn't selected with their perspective in mind, and that realization leaves them disappointed, a feeling no amount of size or clarity can fix.
Direct communication before purchase prevents this outcome, but many buyers avoid the conversation. They worry that discussing preferences will diminish the surprise or expose budget constraints. The result is a choice made in isolation, based on assumptions about what the other person values. When those assumptions prove wrong, the ring becomes a reminder of misalignment rather than shared intention.
Disclosure Requirements Complicate Resale
If you later decide to sell a lab-grown diamond, disclosure becomes legally and ethically necessary. Buyers expect transparency about origin, and misrepresenting a lab-grown diamond as natural carries serious consequences. This requirement limits your resale options and ensures that any buyer will negotiate price based on lab-grown market conditions, not natural diamond comparables.
The disclosure obligation also affects how you think about the diamond's role in your life. A natural diamond can be passed down through generations or sold without raising questions about authenticity. A lab-grown diamond requires explanation and context, which some people find burdensome when they're ready to move on from the piece.
Personal Preference, Not Universal Truth
Framing this as a preference issue rather than a quality judgment matters. Lab-grown diamonds are not inferior in appearance or durability. They simply carry different symbolic meanings for different people.
Someone who views diamonds as geological artifacts will always prefer natural diamonds. Someone who sees them as symbols of commitment, regardless of origin, may find lab-grown options perfectly aligned with their values.
Aligning Values Before Purchase
The challenge is recognizing which perspective you and your partner hold before making an irreversible purchase. A conversation about what the diamond represents, beyond its visual beauty, surfaces these differences early.
You might discover that tradition and rarity matter more than you assumed, or that your partner cares far less about origin than you expected. Either way, the information shapes your decision in ways that price alone cannot.
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Long-Term Market Uncertainty
Nobody can predict where
lab-grown diamond pricing will settle five, ten, or twenty years from now. Production technology continues advancing, new manufacturers enter the market regularly, and consumer preferences shift as generational attitudes evolve. The financial trajectory remains unclear, and that uncertainty compounds every other consideration in this purchase.
The challenge isn't just that prices might fall further. It's that the rate and direction of change depend on variables outside your control, such as manufacturing breakthroughs, shifts in consumer sentiment, regulatory changes, and the degree of price competition. You're making a permanent decision based on temporary market conditions, and the gap between those two timelines creates risk that's difficult to quantify.
Economic Forces Amplify Pricing Volatility
According to the UN Trade and Development UNCTAD, global economic growth is projected at
2.7% in 2025. Slower growth typically pressures discretionary purchases, and lab-grown diamonds occupy a category where consumers can easily defer or downgrade. When household budgets tighten, the difference between a $3,000 and $1,500 diamond becomes meaningful, and producers respond by cutting prices to maintain volume.
Price Sensitivity of Lab-Grown Diamonds
Natural diamond pricing has historically been more stable during economic downturns because supply is constrained by geological limits. Lab-grown production scales with demand, meaning economic pressure translates directly into price competition. If manufacturers can profitably sell diamonds at lower margins, they will, especially when holding inventory carries costs and technology depreciates rapidly.
Consumer Perception Remains in Flux
Younger buyers currently drive the adoption of lab-grown diamonds, but their preferences may shift as they age and accumulate wealth. Someone who prioritizes affordability at 28 might value rarity or heirloom potential at 45. The cultural narrative around lab-grown diamonds is still forming, and how that story resolves will influence long-term demand and pricing.
Uncertain Heirloom Value
One buyer admitted feeling conflicted about whether lab-grown diamonds will hold heirloom value for future generations. They worried that their children might not value the diamond as much, casting doubt on whether the purchase would retain meaning decades later.
That uncertainty isn't irrational. It reflects the reality that lab-grown diamonds lack the multi-generational track record that natural diamonds carry. You're betting on how future recipients will perceive origin, and that bet depends on cultural shifts you can't predict.
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Resale Infrastructure May Never Mature
Natural diamonds benefit from established auction houses, estate buyers, and dealer networks built over decades. Lab-grown diamonds might develop similar infrastructure, or they might not.
If prices continue falling and supply keeps expanding, the economic incentive to build robust resale markets weakens. Dealers won't invest in inventory that depreciates faster than they can move it.
Limited Resale Liquidity
Without mature resale channels, liquidity remains limited. You might eventually find a buyer, but the transaction will likely involve steep discounts and extended search times. That's not catastrophic if you never intend to sell, but it does mean the diamond functions more like a consumable purchase than an asset with recoverable value.
Cut Precision Provides Stability Amid Market Chaos
Market uncertainty affects pricing and resale value, but it doesn't change how a diamond looks on your hand every day. Superior cut quality determines brilliance, fire, and scintillation regardless of whether wholesale prices rise or fall. Buyers who prioritize light performance over origin secure visual beauty that doesn't depreciate with market shifts.
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The Timeline Mismatch Creates Discomfort
You're buying something meant to last a lifetime based on market conditions that could shift dramatically within five years. That temporal mismatch feels uncomfortable because it is. The diamond you purchase today carries today's pricing assumptions, but you'll wear it through decades of market evolution that may render those assumptions obsolete.
Market Volatility of Lab-Grown Diamonds
Natural diamonds are
not immune to market forces, but their pricing reflects centuries of established demand and constrained supply. Lab-grown diamonds operate in a newer, more volatile market where technological progress and production scaling create downward price pressure that may continue indefinitely.
The question isn't whether uncertainty exists. It's about whether you're comfortable making a permanent emotional commitment, given financial conditions that remain fundamentally unstable.
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Quality Differences Buyers May Overlook
Not all lab-grown diamonds perform equally. Two diamonds with identical grading reports can look noticeably different in person because grading certificates measure compliance with minimum standards, not optical excellence.
The lab-grown market expanded faster than quality control infrastructure, creating wide variation in cut precision, crystal clarity, and light performance that most buyers never learn to recognize until after purchase.
Cut Grade Tolerances Mask Performance
The issue surfaces most clearly in cut quality. A diamond graded "Excellent" by a major laboratory still falls within a tolerance range.
Two diamonds can both earn that grade, while one delivers significantly more brilliance and fire because it sits at the top of the acceptable range, and the other barely qualifies. Without tools that directly measure light return, buyers rely on grade labels that obscure meaningful performance differences.
Growth Method Affects Crystal Structure
HPHT and CVD diamonds form through different processes, and those differences occasionally show up in the finished diamond. HPHT diamonds sometimes exhibit metallic inclusions or color zoning that becomes visible under magnification. CVD diamonds can develop strain patterns or brown undertones that reduce transparency, particularly in larger sizes where crystal defects have more space to propagate.
Hidden Flaws Affect Visual Performance.
Most of these issues get caught during grading, but not all. Some strain patterns only become visible under specific lighting conditions.
Others affect how light moves through the diamond without creating inclusions visible to the naked eye. The result is a diamond that meets technical grading standards but underperforms visually compared to a better-grown example.
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Certification Inconsistency Creates Confusion
Natural diamonds benefit from decades of standardized grading protocols refined across millions of diamonds. Lab-grown grading is newer, and different laboratories apply slightly different standards.
A
diamond graded VS2 by one lab might receive a lower clarity grade from another. Color grading shows similar variation, particularly in the near-colorless range where subtle differences matter.
Inconsistent Grading Across Retailers
Buyers trying to compare options across retailers often struggle because grading reports come from different sources and use slightly different criteria. One seller provides detailed imaging and light performance data.
Another offers only a basic certificate with grade labels and no visual documentation. That inconsistency makes it hard to assess whether you're comparing equivalent quality or paying the same price for materially different diamonds.
Variable Certificate Quality
Many buyers assume that all
IGI or GIA certificates carry equal weight, but the quality of the documentation varies. Some reports include detailed plotting of inclusions and precise measurements.
Others provide minimal information, making verification difficult. When trying to authenticate quality after purchase, limited documentation can be a real obstacle, particularly if you need to verify specifications or resolve a dispute over what was promised versus what arrived.
Cut Precision Determines Visual Performance
The single biggest quality difference buyers overlook is cut precision. A poorly proportioned diamond, even with high color and clarity grades, will look dull next to a well-cut diamond with slightly lower grades.
Light performance depends on exact angles and symmetry, which grading reports measure only loosely. The difference between a diamond cut to minimum acceptable standards and one cut for maximum light return is dramatic when you see them side by side.
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Size Over Brilliance
Most retailers prioritize carat weight because it drives pricing and consumer perception. Cutting a diamond to ideal proportions sacrifices weight, which reduces profit margins. The result is a market flooded with diamonds that prioritize size over brilliance. Buyers who focus on "biggest diamond for the budget" often end up with larger diamonds that underperform optically.
Price Compression Hides Quality Tiers
As lab-grown diamond prices fall, the gap between high-quality and mediocre diamonds narrows in absolute dollar terms. A superior-cut diamond might cost $200 more than an acceptable one, making the upgrade feel insignificant. But that $200 difference represents the cost of precision manufacturing and quality control that directly affects how the diamond performs visually.
Carat vs. Performance Misconception
Buyers conditioned to maximize carat weight per dollar often skip the upgrade because the price difference feels small relative to the total budget. They assume all diamonds within a grade range perform similarly. The reality is that cut quality varies widely even within a single grade, and those variations determine whether the diamond delivers the brilliance and fire that make it visually compelling.
Invisible Quality Risks
The challenge is that quality differences are invisible in static photos and difficult to assess without side-by-side comparison under controlled lighting. By the time you realize the diamond underperforms, you've already committed to the purchase and are faced with the resale limitations discussed earlier.
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How Whiteflash Helps You Choose With Confidence
The hardest part of buying a diamond isn't choosing between natural and lab-grown. It's choosing the right diamond with confidence that it will remain beautiful and meaningful for decades.
That requires more than price comparison or basic grading statistics. It requires access to transparent quality data, expert guidance, and standards that prioritize visual performance over marketing claims.
Revealing Diamond Performance Beyond Grades
Most retailers present diamonds through static photos and grade labels that obscure the performance differences between diamonds. Two diamonds with identical GIA reports can look noticeably different in person because grading certificates measure compliance with minimum standards, not optical excellence. Without tools that reveal how light moves through the diamond, buyers make permanent decisions based on incomplete information.
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Cut Quality Determines Everything You See
The single factor that controls brilliance, fire, and scintillation is cut precision. A poorly proportioned diamond with high color and clarity grades will look dull next to a well-cut diamond with slightly lower grades. The difference isn't subtle when you see them side by side under proper lighting, but most buyers never get that comparison opportunity before purchase.
Whiteflash addresses this gap by focusing first on cut quality rather than carat weight. Their
A CUT ABOVE® super ideal natural diamonds are selected for exceptional light return and precision symmetry, applying standards that exceed basic grading requirements. A similar approach extends to their
Precision Lab Grown brand, where each diamond undergoes strict optical performance testing regardless of origin.
Imaging Reveals What Grading Reports Miss
High-resolution photos and videos provide context that grade labels cannot. You see how the diamond handles light in motion, how facets interact, and whether the diamond delivers the visual impact you expect. Advanced light-performance data quantifies brilliance and fire through objective measurements, removing guesswork from the evaluation process.
This level of transparency shifts the decision from trusting a retailer's description to verifying quality yourself. You compare diamonds based on how they actually perform, not how they're marketed. That matters equally for natural and lab-grown diamonds, because cut precision determines beauty regardless of origin.
Dual Certification Provides Layered Verification
GIA grading establishes baseline quality characteristics. AGS Ideal Reports add a second layer of assessment focused specifically on cut precision and light performance. Dual documentation reduces the risk that a diamond meets technical standards but underperforms visually.
Whiteflash has earned the BBB Winner of Distinction award each year since 2004 and maintains ISO 9001 certification, reflecting consistent quality control processes that extend beyond individual diamond selection. These standards create accountability that protects buyers from the quality inconsistencies that plague the broader lab-grown market.
Expert Guidance Translates Data Into Decisions
Understanding color, clarity, and cut precision in theory is different from applying that knowledge to a specific purchase. GIA-educated experts help translate technical specifications into practical guidance tailored to your budget, preferences, and long-term expectations. The conversation focuses on aligning your selection with what you actually value, not pushing you toward the highest-priced option.
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That education matters because the questions buyers ask before purchase often differ from the concerns that surface years later. Someone focused entirely on maximizing carat weight may not realize until later that they sacrificed brilliance for size. Expert guidance surfaces those tradeoffs early, when you still have time to adjust your priorities.
Flexibility Addresses Future Uncertainty
Clear trade-up policies provide reassurance that today's decision doesn't lock you into a permanent outcome. If your preferences or circumstances change, you can upgrade eligible diamonds later without having to start over financially. That flexibility matters more for lab-grown diamonds, where rapid price declines and limited resale options make traditional selling impractical.
The combination of premium selection, verified quality, detailed imaging, expert support, and upgrade flexibility reduces the uncertainty that makes diamond purchases feel overwhelming. You're not gambling on whether the diamond will meet expectations. You're verifying performance before you commit, with support structures that extend beyond the initial transaction.
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