The most underrated colour grade

[treasurehunter]

This thread about starting choosing a diamond with a budget on a selected site sounds interesting , who is starting it?

 

[MMtwo]

I'm with you too. Getting engaged soon and am hoping for a mid-color OMC/EC. I love/prefer the warm hint in the big prismatic flash. I like an icy RB and would not care for that cut in a mid-tone. Funny, huh.

When I was newer to diamonds I used to care a lot about diamond color and felt more stongly about having a near colorless stone. Now I don't care as much, especially since I like unique and unusual diamonds over MRBs these days. For MRBs, sure, near colorless is my preference because those cuts are all about the BLAMMO factor for me and that is emphasized by a whiter tone to the white light. But for old cuts, which are my preference these days, cuts that you don't see every day around these parts -- any color goes for me. I like em all! The more tinted the better because most people don;t understand the appeal so they are less pricey and you can get a bigger rock.

Right now I am coveting a brown stone with an orange or pinker tint. Something rare and strange looking.

 

[Roxy]

The marketplace adjusts prices of every color grade according to supply and demand.
This results in every grade from D-Z being equally underrated, overrated, correctly-rated and an identical 'value'.

I'm sorry.
I know some who like to think there are bargains out there if you can only be smart enough to buck the system.

Good point Kenny.

There was an old post (I think it was by Gypsy or DiamondSeeker or another brilliant mind) who said that you should buy a diamond, whatever the color, because you love the way that it looks. You should never buy a stone in one color range (say, I or J) in the hopes that it'll "pass" for something in another range (say, F) because the way that the diamond business works, if a diamond can be (or should be) graded as an F and sold as such, it will be.

I'm not at all saying that anyone is trying to "pass" one color for another, I'm just sharing the wisdom that I received from that insight. I'll try to dig up the post and find the exact wording ....