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Re: Quantifying Performance Nuances beyond ASET, H&A Photos,
Sergey and I have been discussing running a survey at the PS GTG in Vegas and also online with ViBox video's of real diamonds.
Would it make sense to test just two stones, or a larger number?
Should there be a new thread?
I do not think that would be collusion Bryan. I think it is "doable" and it would be an excellent way to test and possibly even put much of this debate to bed.Texas Leaguer|1428518832|3858744 said:P,pfunk|1428517904|3858731 said:Annette,smitcompton|1428517010|3858722 said:Hi,
You have been given the results of an internal survey by CBI, and now you want more, and you want our very own vendors to test their own diamonds against each other. Why would anyone agree to this? We don't need the height of competition to reach the shores of Pricescope.
I do have a question that I have been dying to ask. The very high end jewelers,: tiffany, Cartier. Graff, HW, et al, do not have a super ideal brand. They do an internal evaluation of their stones and I I have never heard of anyone saying there stones were anything, but, beautiful. They don't seem to care about the Categories we are discussing, for them its enough to say its from Cartier, so it must be beautiful.
There is a Tiffany ring on Diamond Bistro or Loupe Troupe that has a grading report from Tiffany. I cannot read it, except it does say excellent, excellent, excellent and give the angles which is not clear on my computer. The ctw is 1.45 vs1, I think H color. We all know the price of these jewelers is out of this world, but eliminating price, how do they sell non graded diamonds. By the way this ring is a good price for Tiffany. $18,000.
John Pollack, you are so refreshing. You shine.
Annette
I hope you didn't see this as me personally asking for more. I am thankful John shared the findings of their ongoing CBI survey. BUT, that doesn't mean that the survey was designed to answer the questions posed in this thread. He was kind enough to share what they found, and we are thankful for that. Myself and others are simply stating that in order for the questions of this thread to be answered fully, a more controlled study would need to be completed. We have offered some advice on how such a study might be structured.
I am not trying to make the vendors of PS compete. Not at all. Rather, such a study could be a collective effort of all the PS vendors of superideals. If they would work together to show in a more scientific study that consumers prefer superideals over regular AGS 000, they would all have a much stronger marketing point. If the science isn't yet able to quantify the differences with objective metrics, perhaps consumers eyes and opinions would show a trend towards the superideal in such a study.
That would be like the collusion in the tobacco industry with companies putting out studies that say smoking is not harmful![]()
Sergey and I have been discussing running a survey at the PS GTG in Vegas and also online with ViBox video's of real diamonds.
Would it make sense to test just two stones, or a larger number?
Should there be a new thread?