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Virtually all the participants on Pricescope want to assist those who request assistance. You will get a world of knowledge from many knowledgeable folks here who can guide you in the complexities of selecting diamonds that would be "best" for you from the thousands listed for sale. You can pre-screen those stones with tools you'll find on Pricescope and also fine tune the "value" in comparison to similar diamonds listed in the Pricescope diamond search feature. That "value" comparison search is of great importance for not only consumers, but for retailers and appraisers. Pricescope is one of the very few open zones of real price information for all of us to make comparisons that are competitive and have no bias. Rarely do I make comments on relative quality of diamonds listed by consumers for comparison. Plenty of others often reply anyway, but what is "best" for an individual is often not what these advisers may be suggesting. What is really the "best" for you may not be what they would choose. It might be, but it might not, too. WHat we descrtibe as the "best" cut is sort of a majority opinion and based on some degree of science, but what suits any individual consumer "best" may vary from these parameters. There are many non-ideal cut diamonds being worn by people who find them exactly right and are totally happy with them. You can be guided by people to help you find the right direction, but in the end you need to look at the larger picture before deciding what to do.
What none of us can do is look at the diamond in person that you are considering. You are forced to make some assumptions whether buying on line or in a Brick and Mortar store. You need to assume the diamond you are selecting is the right stone for the report provided with it. You must assume the seller is being honest about the condition of the diamond in that nothing has ocurred since the report was created to alter any aspect of the stone's measurements or clarity. You likely will not compare the actual diamond, in person, with several other diamonds of totally equal color, clarity, weight, etc, so you must assume that this particular diamond performs as well as the tools you used led you to expect. When you are a relative novice to diamonds, these assumptions are rather complex, blinding and not easy for others to assist you with at a distance or on line. It isn't much better at a jewelers counter in a store. You are under a bit of pressure to close a deal and that makes things challenging.
The reason I am posting this is to assure consumers that they can go a very long way here to making a well informed set of choices, but they ought to understand that some assumptions are being made at the point of actual stone selection which might have some effect on how they would make their personal best choice. It is great to have a high degree of confidence in your ability to research diamonds, but it also good advice to get any potentially problematic assumptions cleared up before you become convinced you have made your final selection.
What none of us can do is look at the diamond in person that you are considering. You are forced to make some assumptions whether buying on line or in a Brick and Mortar store. You need to assume the diamond you are selecting is the right stone for the report provided with it. You must assume the seller is being honest about the condition of the diamond in that nothing has ocurred since the report was created to alter any aspect of the stone's measurements or clarity. You likely will not compare the actual diamond, in person, with several other diamonds of totally equal color, clarity, weight, etc, so you must assume that this particular diamond performs as well as the tools you used led you to expect. When you are a relative novice to diamonds, these assumptions are rather complex, blinding and not easy for others to assist you with at a distance or on line. It isn't much better at a jewelers counter in a store. You are under a bit of pressure to close a deal and that makes things challenging.
The reason I am posting this is to assure consumers that they can go a very long way here to making a well informed set of choices, but they ought to understand that some assumptions are being made at the point of actual stone selection which might have some effect on how they would make their personal best choice. It is great to have a high degree of confidence in your ability to research diamonds, but it also good advice to get any potentially problematic assumptions cleared up before you become convinced you have made your final selection.