Anybody purchased from Angara.....

[Gothgrrl]

I am looking at several of their round ideal stones. Has anybody purchased from them? Does anybody know if their stones are in house? I''m trying to find something in the .60''s range. I know they are harder to find in that size. I have been looking for months and that size come far and few.

 

[Ellen]

Hi gg,

Have you tried doing a search? I''ve not heard of anyone that I can remember...

If you don''t mind my asking, what are your specs, as I''ve seen a couple around.

 

[WorkingHardforSmallRewards]

browse a couple of the most recent threads, you might find them interesting.

 

[Gothgrrl]

Ellen: Yes, I've tried doing a search. I found a couple I's...I am worried about the color. These are from WF's ACA. I'm looking for something between 5.35 to 5.50 mm. I am pretty color sensitive and don't want to go below H. I have a small G and I feel pretty good about that color. If the stone has fluor. that would be fine too. And as long as it's very eye clean, I don't mind SI.

WorkingHardfor SmallRewards... not too much info on them.

At GoodOldGold, they had 2 stones in my range but when I last checked, someone put them both on hold and now they're both gone.

 

[Ellen]

Did you see this one?

http://204.17.89.15/diamond/3292/


Eyecleanliness needs to be determined on this one.

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/E-SI1-Ideal-Cut-Round-Diamond-955729.asp

And this one.
http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/E-SI1-Ideal-Cut-Round-Diamond-1060534.asp

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/G-VS1-Ideal-Cut-Round-Diamond-1101369.asp

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/F-VS2-Ideal-Cut-Round-Diamond-1101379.asp


http://www.whiteflash.com/hearts_arrows/A-Cut-Above-H-A-cut-diamond-347683.htm


Of course, I picked all these not knowing if there was a strict budget.

 

[WorkingHardforSmallRewards]

Date: 9/23/2007 6:45:13 PM
Author: Gothgrrl



WorkingHardfor SmallRewards... not too much info on them.

I am not sure what you mean by that but,

I mean there is another thread with just about the exact same thing happening. check for some thread about a guy who has 4 weeks to propose. He had his capped off at 2k, so most of those are around the .58-.65ct range, and I have seen alot more than those on various sites, in particular a little more pricy than the ones listed. Whiteflash has a bunch of virtual options but most are GIA with no cert information available online so you would need to call them and have them search for you based on your parameters. Otherwise I say check out jamesallen. they have a huge selection of .6-.7ct diamonds well priced many with AGS0 with a DQD and they can provide magnified images and Ideal scope images. read that recent thread it might help you, but really .6-.65 is pretty easy to find, its .65-.7 thats real hard to find, and frankly you WILL get charged for that extra ct weight in the .65+ range so its not going to be a huge savings over .7 from what I have seen. small changes make too much visual size difference for them to let those go for the same price as the lower .6cts.

here is the thread just started today I believe:



https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/4-weeks-till-proposal-help-find-diamond.69447/

oh and I was curious, james allen has 82 .6-.69 diamonds listed, 40 of those with ideal cuts, 30 with ideal cuts and VS2+ clarity, 29 with ideal cuts-VS2+clarity-G or better color, 19 of those G+ VS2 with official DQD AGS0's


And interestingly enough they claim that everyone of those AGS0's are hearts and arrows--so what that means is that they are all "near or better" hearts and arrows. But I would call that a pretty handsome supply

Only 8 of those 82 diamonds are .65cts or more, and only one of those 8 is an AGS0


oh and some more numbers of interest for my own sake:

the most expensive of those 82 diamonds is 4,670

the least expensive is 1,120

73 of those 82 are equal or less than 2,400 dollars

33 of those 82 cost less than 2,040 dollars, and with a PS discount the number that would cost less than 2000 dollars is probably somewhere along the lines of 45-52 depending on exactly how much they were offering,

so assuming we set the cap at 2100:

You get 44 total diamonds

with 4 AGS0

And 4 diamonds at or over .65cts

15 of those 44 are ideal cuts

0 of those 15 are over .64cts.


EDIT:

On getting these numbers I will have to retract my earlier statement. You can get diamonds at and over .65 cts but most of them are not ideal cuts (probably attempts at retaining as much weight as possible) and thus they come fairly cheap. I would guess that amongst ideal cut diamonds there would be a steady increase all the way up to and above .7cts, until you hit .75cts, but there isn't enough data for me to really say that at the moment.
Anyway, JA is a great place for diamonds of this size, easy to search, excellent reports (DQD) and some extra information such as idealscope images available.

 

[Freakazoid]

My 2 cents about Angara:

Granted I have NOT bought from them, but have researched them HEAVILY.

Honestly, they have some REALLY solid deals, it''s quite literally like finding a needle and a haystack. At least from my experiences. Make sure you look at ALL the specs. Found some awesome radiants there, but they all had depths of well over 75%. But occasionally there''s a good one admist all of them. You WILL have to spend time looking though.

And to the best of my knowledge they''re all in house. If you note on their website they are MORE than willing to actualy give you a VIDEO of the diamond itself, which other than a couple other vendors TOPS, I don''t know of ANY other place that''s willing to do that.