ShadowRuleZ
Rough_Rock
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- Aug 29, 2004
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So this question is premature because I don''t have all of the information at the moment, I was just talking with someone about my purchase and got to wondering...
Essentially I went through a B&M store. The setting that we picked out was a .5 carat setting; they said they might be able to get something as large as .6 to fit into it because of the way it was designed. That''s fine by me; my price range was about 3k. Although this seem small in comparison to what some people on forums have suggested/own, this is fine by me. I''m not going to argue the size game with people, I''d rather put a down payment on a house for us than get an xb0x heug rock.
So back to the story. I went back to get the ring, and asked to see the stones they have to fit in it. They brought out several half carat stones. I looked through some of them, and she mentions that one doesn''t have a cert since it wasn''t written on the front of the card. She said she could do a discount on it; it was marked 2800 and she said she''d be able to do 2000. I looked at some of the others and then asked to see some of the other off size stones they might have. When she went off, I took a look at the one that had no cert. She said they removed it froma necklace since the lady already had a stone she wanted in it. Inside it was a piece of paper with a seal, so I point it out to her when she gets back, and she pulls it out. It''s an EGL cert, and she couldn''t go back on her word, so I decided to take that stone since I felt better that it had a cert.
Now here''s my question. I know it''s probably very very hard to make a comment since I don''t have the full report on me (I pick it up in a week); I''m going to call tomorrow and get as much info as possible so I can post some more info, but I''m impatient so I''ll see if anyone has an opinion here.
The stone was a .5 carat, G color, round, VS2. When I look into a microscope (which makes me feel really silly since if I can''t see it, it shouldn''t bother me), it''s got one white nike symbol on a corner; the lady had to look at 20x before she found it and she let me look at it on 20x.
Essentially it comes down to "did I get a good deal". I look up some stuff on bluenile and such, and I see their stones with these basic stats come up for like 1200-1700 dollars.
Like I said, at the moment I don''t have the table and the rest of that info, but I''m going to call first thing tomorrow to get that informaiton and run it through this calculator that''s here. The setting we picked out is a white gold setting.
Essentially I went through a B&M store. The setting that we picked out was a .5 carat setting; they said they might be able to get something as large as .6 to fit into it because of the way it was designed. That''s fine by me; my price range was about 3k. Although this seem small in comparison to what some people on forums have suggested/own, this is fine by me. I''m not going to argue the size game with people, I''d rather put a down payment on a house for us than get an xb0x heug rock.
So back to the story. I went back to get the ring, and asked to see the stones they have to fit in it. They brought out several half carat stones. I looked through some of them, and she mentions that one doesn''t have a cert since it wasn''t written on the front of the card. She said she could do a discount on it; it was marked 2800 and she said she''d be able to do 2000. I looked at some of the others and then asked to see some of the other off size stones they might have. When she went off, I took a look at the one that had no cert. She said they removed it froma necklace since the lady already had a stone she wanted in it. Inside it was a piece of paper with a seal, so I point it out to her when she gets back, and she pulls it out. It''s an EGL cert, and she couldn''t go back on her word, so I decided to take that stone since I felt better that it had a cert.
Now here''s my question. I know it''s probably very very hard to make a comment since I don''t have the full report on me (I pick it up in a week); I''m going to call tomorrow and get as much info as possible so I can post some more info, but I''m impatient so I''ll see if anyone has an opinion here.
The stone was a .5 carat, G color, round, VS2. When I look into a microscope (which makes me feel really silly since if I can''t see it, it shouldn''t bother me), it''s got one white nike symbol on a corner; the lady had to look at 20x before she found it and she let me look at it on 20x.
Essentially it comes down to "did I get a good deal". I look up some stuff on bluenile and such, and I see their stones with these basic stats come up for like 1200-1700 dollars.
Like I said, at the moment I don''t have the table and the rest of that info, but I''m going to call first thing tomorrow to get that informaiton and run it through this calculator that''s here. The setting we picked out is a white gold setting.
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