Hi,
So, I have a jeweler a friend introduced me to, really nice guy.. Extremely helpful, amazing service.. So I meet with him, tell him my specs.. I originally said I wanted to spend roughly 15k on the stone, and wanted something in the 2.25 range, when I realized that wasn''t going to happened (based on the stones he was coming up with) I upped my budget.. Recently he found me a stone which he said is perfect..
2.20ct
GIA rated
VS1
H color
Good Polish
Good Symmetry
Florescence - None
53% Table
72.3% Depth
Medium - very thick (faceted) girdle
no Culet
Cost - $22k, plus the setting (tiffany dinovo) 3k = $25,000... I went to look at the stone, its nice, under the store lighting I felt it was a little yellow... I live in a different state so a friend (who knows far more about diamonds than me) went back to look at the stone in different lighting conditions.. I spoke with him and he said its a nice stone and outside of the store lighting it was not as yellow as I thought, next to an F, it was difficult to tell the difference.. I was pretty excited, thinking this is the one.. I somehow go on google to read about a few things (table size, depth..etc)... The site I come to is called diamond helpers.. On one portion of the site it has a "diamond price tutorial".. I thought it would be worthwhile to checkout, i follow the instructions, which take me to UnionDiamonds.com.. I run the search for my diamond and SHOCKINGLY come up with MY DIAMOND!!!!!! Im looking at the specs, and Im thinking, wow, this is just like my diamond, i pull out my GIA report, check the GIA report # and sure enough ITS IT.!!!! Price? 16,900... im a little shocked, as well as a little behildered.. How is this possible? I emailed Uniondiamonds for a copy of the GIA report and the nice salesman said he was not sure on the availability but will tell me on monday.. Im not a betting man but im guessing its not available..
Now, my question is what to do? Im spending all this time researching stones, learning about this stuff, and my jeweler bought a stone from a place I could have gotten it then marked it up 5grand!!! 30%?!!! Don''t get me wrong, im all about making money, but 30% on retail pricing? talk about feeling ripped.. I checked out some of the other stones they have available and for the money im spending I can buy a much better stone. (on paper at least)
my question is what should I do?
Im going to meet with my dads jeweler tomorrow to see what he has.. But I just can''t get over this.. Do brick and motar shops really markup diamonds THAT much?
Thanks,
One of the stones they have that seems to be really nice (on paper)
2.21 Cushion Cut
GIA rated
D Color
22,372
8.25x6.9x4.72
1.20 - l to width
68.4% depth
68% table
no culet
very good polish
very good symmetry
girdle - thin to thick
none flourescence
here is where I understand experience is worth a market, how would a diamond with those specs look? On paper its a great diamond, right? or no
any help would be great.. Thank you so much
So, I have a jeweler a friend introduced me to, really nice guy.. Extremely helpful, amazing service.. So I meet with him, tell him my specs.. I originally said I wanted to spend roughly 15k on the stone, and wanted something in the 2.25 range, when I realized that wasn''t going to happened (based on the stones he was coming up with) I upped my budget.. Recently he found me a stone which he said is perfect..
2.20ct
GIA rated
VS1
H color
Good Polish
Good Symmetry
Florescence - None
53% Table
72.3% Depth
Medium - very thick (faceted) girdle
no Culet
Cost - $22k, plus the setting (tiffany dinovo) 3k = $25,000... I went to look at the stone, its nice, under the store lighting I felt it was a little yellow... I live in a different state so a friend (who knows far more about diamonds than me) went back to look at the stone in different lighting conditions.. I spoke with him and he said its a nice stone and outside of the store lighting it was not as yellow as I thought, next to an F, it was difficult to tell the difference.. I was pretty excited, thinking this is the one.. I somehow go on google to read about a few things (table size, depth..etc)... The site I come to is called diamond helpers.. On one portion of the site it has a "diamond price tutorial".. I thought it would be worthwhile to checkout, i follow the instructions, which take me to UnionDiamonds.com.. I run the search for my diamond and SHOCKINGLY come up with MY DIAMOND!!!!!! Im looking at the specs, and Im thinking, wow, this is just like my diamond, i pull out my GIA report, check the GIA report # and sure enough ITS IT.!!!! Price? 16,900... im a little shocked, as well as a little behildered.. How is this possible? I emailed Uniondiamonds for a copy of the GIA report and the nice salesman said he was not sure on the availability but will tell me on monday.. Im not a betting man but im guessing its not available..
Now, my question is what to do? Im spending all this time researching stones, learning about this stuff, and my jeweler bought a stone from a place I could have gotten it then marked it up 5grand!!! 30%?!!! Don''t get me wrong, im all about making money, but 30% on retail pricing? talk about feeling ripped.. I checked out some of the other stones they have available and for the money im spending I can buy a much better stone. (on paper at least)
my question is what should I do?
Im going to meet with my dads jeweler tomorrow to see what he has.. But I just can''t get over this.. Do brick and motar shops really markup diamonds THAT much?
Thanks,
One of the stones they have that seems to be really nice (on paper)
2.21 Cushion Cut
GIA rated
D Color
22,372
8.25x6.9x4.72
1.20 - l to width
68.4% depth
68% table
no culet
very good polish
very good symmetry
girdle - thin to thick
none flourescence
here is where I understand experience is worth a market, how would a diamond with those specs look? On paper its a great diamond, right? or no
any help would be great.. Thank you so much