I admit it, I''m really, really bored. That being said, there''s something about this whole diamond-buying experience which really seems odd to me.
My SO and I have this little quirk. See, he''s Canadian, and we both think DeBeers is really annoying. So we''d rather throw our money into a Canadian diamond. Who knows, we might even end up throwing our money into a Canadian house (but that''s a bit down the road... after we finish our PhDs).
So every single jeweler we''ve gone to, we go through the whole thing, where they have these very interesting an amorphous definitons of idea, and they show us some diamonds and some settings... and we end up picking the same basic sort of setting every time. Then we say that we''re interested in a Canadian diamond, or at least something that isn''t from DeBeers. You''d think we were asking for a Gemesis diamond (which we also have done, and have learned not to do, after the LITERALLY screaming rant by a certain Pittsburgh jeweler). At worst, patronizing assurances that we don''t really care about that, and that we don''t care about the Canadian thing, and DeBeers is just fine and dandy. At best, it''s like shifting from 4th gear directly to 1st on the highway. Thud.
Now, I understand this is a strange little personal thing we have. My SO really wants something on my finger that really has something to do with him (other than us picking it out together and paying for it together)... since we''ve ruled out the geeky super-modern sorts of rings (since they are so not my taste it''s not even funny), and decided that yellow just isn''t really my colour, and discovered that you can''t buy lab-grown blue or green, we''re left with The Canadian Option. To us, it''s meaningful. Then again, we''re somewhat odd. It makes us happy, at least.
What I''m wondering is if there might be some better way to handle this sort of thing... Like saying "let me see if I can find that for you" and asking whoever it is that''s hanging out in the back if that''s possible. Perhaps they''d simply rather not deal with me, but even when faced with the offer of a premium, they''re just too thrown off to consider it. In any case, I thought the whole thing was somewhat interesting.
(I should note the exception I''ve gotten thus far -- when I asked about Canadian diamonds on this board, I got a response from R/T at NiceIce saying that they could in fact obtain such a thing for me, even if their web site expresses their opinion that my SO and I are slightly insane. We are, of course, and we freely admit it.)
My SO and I have this little quirk. See, he''s Canadian, and we both think DeBeers is really annoying. So we''d rather throw our money into a Canadian diamond. Who knows, we might even end up throwing our money into a Canadian house (but that''s a bit down the road... after we finish our PhDs).
So every single jeweler we''ve gone to, we go through the whole thing, where they have these very interesting an amorphous definitons of idea, and they show us some diamonds and some settings... and we end up picking the same basic sort of setting every time. Then we say that we''re interested in a Canadian diamond, or at least something that isn''t from DeBeers. You''d think we were asking for a Gemesis diamond (which we also have done, and have learned not to do, after the LITERALLY screaming rant by a certain Pittsburgh jeweler). At worst, patronizing assurances that we don''t really care about that, and that we don''t care about the Canadian thing, and DeBeers is just fine and dandy. At best, it''s like shifting from 4th gear directly to 1st on the highway. Thud.
Now, I understand this is a strange little personal thing we have. My SO really wants something on my finger that really has something to do with him (other than us picking it out together and paying for it together)... since we''ve ruled out the geeky super-modern sorts of rings (since they are so not my taste it''s not even funny), and decided that yellow just isn''t really my colour, and discovered that you can''t buy lab-grown blue or green, we''re left with The Canadian Option. To us, it''s meaningful. Then again, we''re somewhat odd. It makes us happy, at least.
What I''m wondering is if there might be some better way to handle this sort of thing... Like saying "let me see if I can find that for you" and asking whoever it is that''s hanging out in the back if that''s possible. Perhaps they''d simply rather not deal with me, but even when faced with the offer of a premium, they''re just too thrown off to consider it. In any case, I thought the whole thing was somewhat interesting.
(I should note the exception I''ve gotten thus far -- when I asked about Canadian diamonds on this board, I got a response from R/T at NiceIce saying that they could in fact obtain such a thing for me, even if their web site expresses their opinion that my SO and I are slightly insane. We are, of course, and we freely admit it.)