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I'm a newbie to this site, and I'm trying to use the diamond search tool to find some diamonds matching my criteria.

I have a concern here. I don't know what inventory this search pulls from, but for the base criteria that I have, almost all the results are from a vendor called "B2C Jewels". How come? I tried a lot of variations, I tried to broaden my selection, but still almost all results are from "B2C Jewels". Is this normal, or my search criteria is "wrong" in some way?

Since this search tool is not returning results from any of those "well known" vendors (jamesallen, bluenile, whiteflash, etc), I did a search manually on each of their own website, and it turns out that this "B2C Jewels" offers almost unbelievably low price for diamonds with the same parameters, compared with those "well known" vendors. How come? And I couldn't find much information regarding this "B2C Jewels" vendor.

By the way, my search criteria is:

shape: round
carat: 1.0 - 1.5
color: E - F
clarity: VS1 - VS2
cut rank: Excellent - Very Good
lab: GIA (GIA3EX)
 
I ran into something similar when I was doing my searches. I eventually figured out that the cut option is actually an "HCA CUT RANK". Only some of the vendors here list their HCA cut rankings, and many others will be blank for the rating. If you only select "EXCELLENT" or "VERY GOOD" for your cut ranking, only a few vendors will actually show up. Go ahead and select "EXCELLENT" to "N/A" in the HCA CUT RANK, and then the rest of the vendors will magically appear.

Also, I recently posted on my loose diamond purchase from B2C in the testimonials section. I concur that B2C has excellent prices, however, keep in mind they drop ship (they don't have most diamonds in stock), and they are not as large and as streamlined as the JA's and BN's. On the flip side, they do "quality check" the diamonds before sending them to you, and they have 30 day guarantees, so if you have the time and patience, you may be able to find a real gem (no pun intended)...
 
Some of us prefer the 100% upgrade policies and extra light performance testing that other vendors do even though the cost is a little higher. They also may offer super ideal cut hearts and arrows stones which you won't often find on a virtual list like you have been looking at.
 
leeac|1357163209|3345731 said:
I ran into something similar when I was doing my searches. I eventually figured out that the cut option is actually an "HCA CUT RANK". Only some of the vendors here list their HCA cut rankings, and many others will be blank for the rating. If you only select "EXCELLENT" or "VERY GOOD" for your cut ranking, only a few vendors will actually show up. Go ahead and select "EXCELLENT" to "N/A" in the HCA CUT RANK, and then the rest of the vendors will magically appear.

Also, I recently posted on my loose diamond purchase from B2C in the testimonials section. I concur that B2C has excellent prices, however, keep in mind they drop ship (they don't have most diamonds in stock), and they are not as large and as streamlined as the JA's and BN's. On the flip side, they do "quality check" the diamonds before sending them to you, and they have 30 day guarantees, so if you have the time and patience, you may be able to find a real gem (no pun intended)...
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This. B2C is one of the only sites that gets auto populates the HCA cut rankings into the pricescope search engine. Don't use that as a search criteria, or you will only get results from B2C and some James Allen stones.
 
Thank you guys tremendously.
 
I think if you find B2C Jewels diamonds its more of advantage to you as their prices are far better than James Allen and other
companies, the services like 1) Return policy 2) Warranty on Jewelry 3) Upgrade policy 4) Free Return shipping etc are on par.

B2C Jewels have also started giving Ideal Scope Images, I think you may have to contact them to get you the Image, besides
in my opinion none of the online store own all the stones they show on the site, some are owned and some outsourced, likewise
with B2C Jewels. I think the reason their prices are better than other companies is because they are aggressive and every company
have strategies and accordingly they price their products, I think B2C have strategy to provide better prices to gain volume
business (which I think is fair)

The companies like James Allen, White Flash, Blue nile, Brain Gavin all companies are great and are highly recommended likewise
I would say about B2C Jewels, sure you have advantage of better prices with B2C
 
Anyone else get something from B2C Jewels lately? Their prices are attractive.
 
This is my first post but as I was doing research on B2C Jewels, it is an Indian owned company. A local retailer here told me that most of the diamond cutting now are done in India and with the latest machines.
 
I've been working with them and its been a great experience. They really seem similar to BN to me in the sense that neither of them actually have the diamonds, but B2C has better policies (free return shipping) and really great people working for them. I've sent back a stone that I didn't love but I will say -- the description they gave prior to my ordering it was pretty spot on.

They often have some overlap in stone with BN so if you trust their selection better for some reason, you can check if B2C has the exact stone (down to the GIA number) for your own peace of mind.
 
B2C is similar to bluenile, operating by drop shipping.

A downside is that you won't get the higher quality diamonds like the ACA range from WF or True Hearts from JA.
 
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