You shouldn't have gotten a 2 carat diamond that cheap at that time. Either you got a really great deal for some idiosyncratic reason or your recollection is off.

Here's an example article from the era: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2004/02/14/y...

I second this. There was no way to get a real, flawless, 2 carat lab grown diamond at the time for $2K.

I hope the parent commenter wasn’t duped by someone selling fake diamonds.