PeridotFan
Rough_Rock
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- Sep 3, 2008
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Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm in the preliminary stages of looking for an engagement ring (he's not ready to commit yet, just seeing what our options are
), and a few days ago I went around to a couple of stores to get some ideas. One of the places I went was a wholesaler who worked with the public by appointment, and before they showed me any diamonds they gave me a quick education about the four C's (most of which I already knew from pricescope
). About halfway through the speech, the salesman told me that the cut of a diamond only makes 10% of the difference in how much it sparkles, and the rest is from the quality of rough - I had never heard of this before, and so I was pretty confused. He said that diamonds from low quality of rough were really hazy, and the haziness didn't show up as inclusions on the cert, and it was the kind of thing that people sold on the internet That only confused me further since everyone here at pricescope has had such great experiences buying online. She told me that as a wholesaler they sold the high quality of rough which other people didn't have, and so I'd be safer not relying on how well on the diamond is cut (because it didn't really matter!) and just getting high quality rough from there instead. I'm still not sure what the quality of rough is, and I've never heard before that cut matters so little - is any of this true, or was it just shady sales techniques to get me to buy from them? Help me out, Pricescope!
EDIT: Oops, I posted this in Hangout when it should have been in RockyTalky! My mistake
EDIT: Oops, I posted this in Hangout when it should have been in RockyTalky! My mistake