I''m a few months away from reaching my savings goal and purchasing a ring. I decided today to stop by four jewelers, decide by random by my phone, two mom and pop and two big name B&M''s.
The first big named B&M miss represented there AGS0 diamonds as AGS000''s. Way overpriced! The second large named diamond dealer insisted on matching a diamond to my price range. 1.25, I, SI2, GIA Ex for tweleve thousand dollars and that was all I needed to see according to him, because that diamond will perform the best of all his diamonds at that price. O, and that was two grand over my price range.
Better luck with the mom and pop''s? The first place was pretty understocked and pushed me in the direction of diamond cuts that I wasn''t even close to interested in. I want a round brilliant, not a heart shaped or pear diamond. Stop bringing them out for me to look at. The last lady I visited showed me diamonds with the dimensions written on the case and couldn''t provide any documentaion on them. I guess I''ll just take your word for it...NOT
Is this what i''m supposed to expect? OR did I just get a bad random sample?
The diamonds I saw today were overpriced crap. I know I''ll have better luck buying on line, but I want to get my eyes on alot of different diamonds. I want to find out exactly what I like. Any suggestions on getting better luck with B&M''s? Also, has anyone had experience in traveling to any of the on-line vendors on pricescope to personally look at there diamonds? I wouldn''t mind spending a few bucks and flying to a vendor, If it meant I could get or atleast identify exactly what I want. Is this to extreme?
The first big named B&M miss represented there AGS0 diamonds as AGS000''s. Way overpriced! The second large named diamond dealer insisted on matching a diamond to my price range. 1.25, I, SI2, GIA Ex for tweleve thousand dollars and that was all I needed to see according to him, because that diamond will perform the best of all his diamonds at that price. O, and that was two grand over my price range.
Better luck with the mom and pop''s? The first place was pretty understocked and pushed me in the direction of diamond cuts that I wasn''t even close to interested in. I want a round brilliant, not a heart shaped or pear diamond. Stop bringing them out for me to look at. The last lady I visited showed me diamonds with the dimensions written on the case and couldn''t provide any documentaion on them. I guess I''ll just take your word for it...NOT
Is this what i''m supposed to expect? OR did I just get a bad random sample?
The diamonds I saw today were overpriced crap. I know I''ll have better luck buying on line, but I want to get my eyes on alot of different diamonds. I want to find out exactly what I like. Any suggestions on getting better luck with B&M''s? Also, has anyone had experience in traveling to any of the on-line vendors on pricescope to personally look at there diamonds? I wouldn''t mind spending a few bucks and flying to a vendor, If it meant I could get or atleast identify exactly what I want. Is this to extreme?