ASET of an Asscher cut diamond - your thoughts?

[DiamondXXX]

I decided to post this once again, since in my previous topic noone really reacted on the ASET image once I received it. What is your opinion? What do you see and would you buy it? Thank you everyone!

 

[OoohShiny]

Now I'm no expert so take my comments with a large pinch of salt, but a few things come to my mind (which may or may not be wrong):

- it is a 'real life' ASET and not a computer-produced image, hence looks fainter than the computer-generated ones, which is fair enough and probably a more accurate representation of its behaviour in real life
- it looks like the stone might not be completely face-on? but then we don't look at stones 100% face-on all the time, so it is still representative if it is slightly 'off'
- there several facets of blue in it - these will be dark areas in real life
- it looks like there is some leakage, visible by the white areas

Personally speaking, I am not super-keen on it.

Can you post your budget and desired specs and we on the board might be able to help find you alternatives?