@hardrock if this was the case why did MUS go to an auction? CJ is no fool and he would have known exactly what the buyers wanted.
Where did all the bags and bags of sorted and graded “pigeon blood” coloured rubies go that we saw pre-auction in the various announcements only to be replaced with pink and colourless stones?
Why as soon as the buyers turn up we go from having the equivalent secondary source stones as Gemfields where no one could tell the difference between a MUS and Gemfields stone in any of the photos, to having the pink crud Vincent was showing in his insta feed?
How did the diamondworld get the exact price that MUS would accept days before the bids were in? Not even collusion between the buyers (which as you have said is impossible to organise because they all hate each others guts) could organise this. If there was collusion MUS could have reject all bids and started again.
Something is very rotten in the state of Denmark.