Hi
@chchchanges -
Firstly - what a gorgeous ring! Few questions - is that a custom made setting? Meaning - was the entire ring $17,***? I'm just trying to work out *exactly* what you paid for your diamond. If you're in CA, for example, and that includes 10% tax and 1.5k for the setting, you probably paid more like 14.5k for your diamond. Compared to what's on
Blue Nile, that's actually a very good price, as their 1.7 F VVS2 ovals (only a couple of them) were more in the high 16k range. I suspect the price you gave us did include tax, so if that's the case, even if the price you quoted was the diamond alone, it's still right on target comparing with the stones on
BN. So firstly - I don't think you got ripped off. And if the price you quoted *does* include the setting and tax, then you got a good deal. So there's that - and that counts for a lot.
As regards - should you switch - one thing came to mind for me: are you normally a decisive or an indecisive person? For example - are you the sort of person who might feel a level of indecision if you'd gone with any option? If you're normally very decisive and you're just indecisive in this particular situation - then perhaps switching would work better for you. But if this is normal for you, and if you can afford the money - I'd remind myself that there were reasons you went the direction you did in the first place, and I'd probably stay with that. But if - third option - you feel as tho you'd like more time and space to research, that might be a reasonable path forward for you. But - fourth option - if you're someone who could end up getting stuck in an endless cycle of research...looking...research...more looking...more diamonds...more diamonds......there can be no end to that and it might just be better to remind yourself (back to option 1!) that there were reasons you went down the path you originally chose, and just stay there. Only you can decide which option - or any other option - works for you.
But no matter where you end up, you currently have a gorgeous ring - white, clean, substantial - in a very elegant setting, for which you paid a reasonable price. So your outcome is good either way.
Good luck!