Bought Blue Nile Signature - Good Value?

[bloomac]

Just purchased a diamond from Blue Nile. Part of their signature Round collection. Would have gone with a different vendor, but trust and solid track record were important.

Tried to go for a great cut above all us. Sacrificed a little on color and clarity
Scored a 1.2 on HCA. Excellent Fire / Excellent Scintillation/ Excellent Light Return/ Very Good Spread. I do not have a trained eye so its hard for me to tell.

$6,000
Shape: Round Brilliant
Measurements: 6.49x6.52x3.95
Cut Grade AGS Ideal 0
Polish: Ideal
Symmetry: Ideal
Proportions: Ideal
Color Grade: AGS 1.5 G
Clarity Grade: AGS 5 S1
Table: 56 %
Depth: 60.7%
Crown Angle: 34.6 degrees
Pavilion: 40.8 degrees
Cutlet: Pointed
Girdle 1.1 to 1.8%


Will you please tell me if I got a good deal? Plus, is this a really good stone or what? A little deep, but still good? Hows this puppy gonna look in a platinum setting. Please excuse my ignorance.

 

[Patty]

From the numbers, it should be a beautiful diamond! I don''t know about the price...You can do a search here for comparable stones, but the stone should be gorgeous and would be great in platinum! It does not appear to be deep according to the numbers.

 

[susiQ]

You don''t have to start worrying about too deep of a cut until you get over 62.3%. All of your numbers look good and HCA score of 1.2 should give you a beautiful diamond. Your numbers are within the ideal cut ranges.

http://diamonds.pricescope.com/round.asp

The G color should look great in platinum. I''ve seen some I stones here on PS in platinum that looked great! Generally people will tell you to stick to E-H for platinum settings though. I have an ideal cut H and it faces up very white. With a good cut like yours a G will be no problem (stones with excellent cuts show less color)

Do a search for similar diamonds here on pricescope and you will see some less expensive stones with similar specs. Bluenile prices are slightly higher than what you will see here. (FYI-My ring is from Bluenile aswell and I am very happy with it.)

Congrats!

Susi

 

[windowshopper]

looks incrediible--prices with BN maye be a a little more but their grading seems pretty good

 

[valeria101]

Big company, big price and not too much person to person chat...

Track record or no track record - of course a smaller shop would not have the kind of traffic as BN has.

But then, BN lists a bunch of 1 carat G/SI AGS0 with AGS0 cut grades and about 1k less. What does the BN signature add to the AGS Ideal cut grade? Aside the 1k, of course ? There should be some explanation, just none I know of

Here''s the exibit: 1.01 G/SI AGS0 5k