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Update on 12/1/06 posts

P: 2/14/2007 2:07:55 PM
toopicky Rough Rock Total Posts: 21 Last Post: 1/4/2008 Member Since: 12/1/2006	Hello everyone, I wanted to take a minute to share my update on the issues I posted about in early Dec (topic was What to do). To make a long story short, my fiance and I made an impulse buy at Zales for my engagement ring and I was questioning the quality of the ring and all that(It's their signature collection... 1.04 round H SI2 )... so here's my update. After wearing the ring for a couple more months I still love it and I get quite a few compliments on it. The funny thing is that several people have commented on the "clarity" of it. Given that these are not jewelry experts I have to take their comments with a grain of salt but since I was most afraid of the clarity of my ring it's still nice to hear. More importantly (and why I'm sharing this update) is that I recently had the ring appraised (to make sure everything is in line for the insurance I got on it) and the results matched those on the "certification" document that Zales gave me (and to fill in the details it didn't have). The appraiser was fantastic and took the time to answer all my questions. I told him about the concerns I'd had about the ring and he assured me that he would consider the stone to be eye clean. To be honest I've never really been able to see anything in it (even with the 20x loupe I bought) so it was great to be able to look at it under the microscope thing and actually see the inclusions. There definitely are some but no carbon or anything like that and there really is no way to see them with the naked eye. None of them were in the center of the ring and the cut hides all of them. He also confirmed that the stone is considered an "Excellent" cut (using the GIA measurement standards). When I posted before there was a question about whether or not the stone had flouresance to it and I can now answer that it does not. The one criticism he had was that the platinum setting we put it in (we switched it from the 18 k gold setting it came in to a platinum trellis setting.. guess it could also be called an x prong setting) had not been finished well. He finished it out as much as he could while I was there (I loved the way it looked before and it looks even better now). He also said that in his opinion the $6,000 that was paid for it (which includes the platinum setting) was not unreasonable. I've learned a lot through this whole process and the next time we go diamond shopping I'll be better prepared (I'm thinking I want some earrings next). Thanks again to everyone to helped me out back in Dec.
Posted: 2/14/2007 2:07:55 PM

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P: 2/14/2007 2:22:24 PM
Hudson_Hawk Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,443 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 11/2/2006	I'm really glad that everything turned out okay and the appraiser was able to ease your mind a bit. Congrats on your engagement and best of luck with the wedding planning! That's Mrs. Hudson_Hawk to you... Over and out.
Posted: 2/14/2007 2:22:24 PM

P: 2/14/2007 2:26:16 PM
toopicky Rough Rock Total Posts: 21 Last Post: 1/4/2008 Member Since: 12/1/2006	Thanks! The wedding is less than a month away but luckily everything is planned... it's been too easy and I'm just waiting for something to go wrong
Posted: 2/14/2007 2:26:16 PM

P: 2/14/2007 2:28:39 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	I'm glad to hear everything turned out well, and you can enjoy your ring. Congrats! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds." -Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880 "There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things.... The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Posted: 2/14/2007 2:28:39 PM

P: 2/14/2007 3:56:34 PM
Stone Hunter Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,778 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 5/12/2006	I'm glad the appraiser was able to give you some answers and calm your fears. Congrats! on your ering. Happy wedding.
Posted: 2/14/2007 3:56:34 PM

P: 2/14/2007 4:06:37 PM
Fly Girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,760 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 1/9/2007	Thanks so much for the update. Glad to hear you have a great diamond. Sounds like the appraisal was totally worth it. Enjoy your wedding! **** Life is a Journey, not a Destination. ****
Posted: 2/14/2007 4:06:37 PM

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