Diamond sale may put area company "on the map"

You will see tons of people talking on cell phones at just about any airport in the United States but one particular person at a Dallas airport was making the biggest sale of his life. That person was Oscar Rodriguez the CEO of Abazias Diamonds. The sale he had been making was for a five-karat diamond in the amount of 160,000 dollars. The diamond itself was 10.99-by-11 millimeters in diameter, which is just about the diameter of a dime. The person who bought it had only wanted to deal with Oscar Rodriquez. The person who bought it was a New York City marketing executive who was buying it for an anniversary present.

The sale of this diamond was exciting but other great news for Abazias was that there February sales were up eight one percent from last year. Mr. Rodriquez says the sales increase is credited to the new build your own engagement ring feature on the Abazias web page. He states that "Things are really starting moving," and "If everything works out, we''ll definitely put Gainesville on the map in terms of a public company and maybe hiring more people." Abazias.com holds and inventory of 80,000 diamonds.

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