Show Me Your Blue Nile Pieces!

[Imdanny]

Thank you!

 

[MP]

Bump for a late nightpricescope poster. There are so few of us that stay up past midnight. A 2AM new post deserves some attention.

 

[MP]

One thing to think about with bluenile is that you are paying a little bit of a premium for their diamonds. No where near as expenaive as a B & M store, but they are charging more than say Whiteflash, GoodOlGold, and ERD. I almost bought a 1.55 cushion brilliant from them, but ended up buying one from ERD. When I looked back at the diamond that I was looking at on Bluenile it said it was no longer available for purchase. I thought that was a weird coincidence since I just bought mine, but thought nothing of it. I happened to look at the cert of the blue nile diamond versus the one I got from ERD just to see if they stood up against each other. Wouldn't you know it I bought that exact same diamond. The GIA cert numbers and all the stats on it were exactly the same. The icing on the cake was the fact that I paid $600 less for the diamond going with ERD.

So remember, bluenile is good, but going to the source is better.

 

[Imdanny]

Um, can we see it?

 

[indypitty]

I am very happy with my stone from BlueNile. There are many mixed opinions on PS about BlueNile, mainly because you cannot see an actual picture of the stone before purchasing. They do have a good return policy, though. I was crazy enough to buy my cushion from them sight-unseen. It turned out great for me!

Diamond from BlueNile, setting from James Allen.

 

[vslover]

Here''s one...more to follow.

 

[vslover]

here''s another...

 

[vslover]

here are all of them...also had a princess solitaire but lost it...

 

[vslover]

ok one more...one didn''t work

 

[vslover]

earrings...G color...ideal...SI1 eyeclean...1.26 ctw

 

[vslover]

last one...hope that helps!

 

[ksinger]

Date: 2/23/2008 10:01:28 PM
Author: vslover
last one...hope that helps!

Wow! All I can say is WOW! That is a gorgeous set of rings!!

Here''s mine, in low-ish light. I''ve posted this before, so my may have seen it, but who knows: there are SOOO many threads here!

 

[ksinger]

...and one more in brighter light, and with the wedding band. The band is NOT from BN.

 

[vslover]

ooh what a beautiful ring!!

 

[monarch64]

Ksinger, I LOVE your w-band! If you don''t mind telling, may I ask where you obtained that lovely ring? It''s gorgeous!

 

[Imdanny]

vslover, to be sure I understand the two bands on the right are 2.0 and 3.0 mm? Beautiful rings all! Thanks!

 

[ksinger]

Date: 2/24/2008 2:06:06 AM
Author: monarch64
Ksinger, I LOVE your w-band! If you don''t mind telling, may I ask where you obtained that lovely ring? It''s gorgeous!

Thank you! I''m kind of partial to it myself.

Since my man and I decided that our money was better spent on a kitchen remodel first, we''ve decided to use pieces we already had for our wedding bands. (I know that sounds unromantic to some but it works for us. Neither one of us is sentimental about jewelry. Other things, but not jewelry.) I got that from a jeweler in Santa Fe by the name of Nancy Brown. She has a great little store there with some really great local jeweler/designers as her partners. The ring is 14k with .62 ctw (38 stones) of fancy diamonds ranging from pale brown, through dark brown, orange and intense yellow. I was seriously considering an Alex Sepkus ring that she had, when I took one final pass around the shop and saw my ring. I knew it was mine because I was looking for colored diamonds, and the ring was named "Freckles". (I''m a redhead) What else could I do?? She also had the same basic design (the arrangement is genuinely random for each ring) in rose gold with white diamonds...

 

[ksinger]

Date: 2/23/2008 1:57:38 PM
Author: MP
One thing to think about with bluenile is that you are paying a little bit of a premium for their diamonds. No where near as expenaive as a B & M store, but they are charging more than say Whiteflash, GoodOlGold, and ERD. I almost bought a 1.55 cushion brilliant from them, but ended up buying one from ERD. When I looked back at the diamond that I was looking at on Bluenile it said it was no longer available for purchase. I thought that was a weird coincidence since I just bought mine, but thought nothing of it. I happened to look at the cert of the blue nile diamond versus the one I got from ERD just to see if they stood up against each other. Wouldn''t you know it I bought that exact same diamond. The GIA cert numbers and all the stats on it were exactly the same. The icing on the cake was the fact that I paid $600 less for the diamond going with ERD.

So remember, bluenile is good, but going to the source is better.

OK...this just gets weirder to me by the day. I got my stone through Blue Nile, and it was not one of their signature ideals, just the garden-variety ideal, which doesn''t promise to be H&A. But when I got the stone I realized it WAS. I keyed in at that point that the GIA cert noted there was an inscription on the girdle that said H&A, but I was buying strictly by price and "by the numbers". Now, I''ve done enough research to know that there are some "issues" with GIA graded stones having the H&A inscription on them, when it doesn''t say whether GIA PUT the inscription on the stone, or it was ON there before they graded it. It simply notes that there is an inscription (not "additional" inscription, just inscription) saying H&A.

Apparently, there has been a bit of a fracas about these inscriptions showing up on GIA stones and being passed off as H&A when they are not. However, in this case, my stone really IS. I checked. This is a really really fine stone in every way, comparable, from what I can see after the amount of digging that only a PS junkie can give it, to any WF ACA or stone from GOG - at least to my not uneducated eyes, and surely by the numbers, tho admittedly I didn''t have all the reports I would''ve had through them. What I want to know, is why it was so cheap? It IS a J, but the cut falls into the AGS0, and GIA Excellent, both. It is an HCA of 1. It faces up white, and you can see arrows on it all day long. The only way I can currently find stones with these proportions on BN, is to look in their signature line. Did I just get really lucky that day? We paid a mere $2207 for this stone. I can''t even FIND a comparable one now for under $3000.... You know what though? Even though it''s nice to suspect I got a deal, I love this stone so ridiculously much..... it doesn''t matter in the end.

Shape: Round
Carat weight: 0.81
Cut: Ideal
Color: J
Clarity: VS2
Certificate: GIA
Depth: 61.8%
Table: 57.0%
Crown Angle : 35.0
Crown % : 15%
Pavilion Angle : 40.6
Pavillion %: 43%
Star Facet Length %: 50%
Pavillion Facet Length %: 80%
Polish: Excellent
Symmetry: Excellent
Girdle: Medium to slightly thick, faceted
Culet: None
Fluorescence: None
Measurements: 5.96*5.98*3.69

 

[vslover]

yep thin gold band is 2 mm and thicker white gold is 3 mm comfort fit...HTH

 

[Imdanny]

Thanks!