another stone for consideration

[kolchak]

I''d decided to only search for the ER with PS vendors & will the moment I get more time. The "friend of a friend" I spoke to asked me to consider another stone. This time it is a GIA cert #1106380861 & it is a 1.51. for 8,400.

Color I
Si1
cut - excellent
depth - 62.3
table 56
crown 35
pav angle 41
pav depth 43
medium to slightly thick fauceted

with my limited knowledge the stone seems fine but price still seems a little on the high side. Any comments greatly appreciated.
TY

 

[stone-cold11]

Promising, price is not too bad too considering it is from a B&M store.

 

[yssie]

Any particular reason you feel obligated to buy from this "friend of a friend"?

The price for a non-H&A/brand is higher than you could pay elsewhere, from a quick search of bluenile's inventory.

By popular PS wisdom:
The stone could be great - GIA rounds their angles, so if the pavilion is rounded up, or you have long lgf, then it could be a winner. Trouble is, unless you're willing to buy your own idealscope or your guy can take some images, you don't know - and if your pavilion and crown are both rounded down, you might have reason to be concerned.

If you like the security of buying in-person locally, bite. If, however, you want more information/images with your purchase, one of the many PS vendors might be a better bet.

 

[kolchak]

I''d prefer buying from a PS vendor & get the images and most probably will. I feel obligated to at least consider this stone & was hoping something negitive would jump out about it. Being a sales person myself, once I''ve taken someones time it''s hard telling them I don''t want to work with them. Now shes telling me "not to worry so much about details and tiny proportions" so saying no won''t be as difficult as I think.
Aren''t the details & tiny proportions what makes a diamond a "good diamond?"

 

[outatouch0]

Read: "Don't get caught up on details I can not give you or details that might keep me from selling you this good diamond."

I would have to say it is the PROPER details that separate a good diamond from a GREAT ONE

 

[yssie]

Date: 11/10/2009 12:11:22 AM
Author: kolchak
I''d prefer buying from a PS vendor & get the images and most probably will. I feel obligated to at least consider this stone & was hoping something negitive would jump out about it. Being a sales person myself, once I''ve taken someones time it''s hard telling them I don''t want to work with them. Now shes telling me ''not to worry so much about details and tiny proportions'' so saying no won''t be as difficult as I think.
Aren''t the details & tiny proportions what makes a diamond a ''good diamond?''

My personal take is yes, they are, but I''m a newbie. There are certainly some on this board who can eyeball stones and pick out the ones that a majority of people (though not all!) will consider "most beautiful". For the rest of us without that practise, though... pictures, numbers, numbers, numbers

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 11/9/2009 8:28:43 PM
Author:kolchak
I'd decided to only search for the ER with PS vendors & will the moment I get more time. The 'friend of a friend' I spoke to asked me to consider another stone. This time it is a GIA cert #1106380861 & it is a 1.51. for 8,400.

Color I
Si1
cut - excellent
depth - 62.3
table 56
crown 35
pav angle 41
pav depth 43
medium to slightly thick fauceted

with my limited knowledge the stone seems fine but price still seems a little on the high side. Any comments greatly appreciated.
TY

Kolchak be cautious with this diamond, it is borderline steep deep and depending on the tightness of the cut and angle rounding, it could show light leakage. If you want to further investigate this diamond buy an Idealscope so you can check for leakage.