Determining AGS rating?

[shigidigi]

Hey everyone. I am a bit confused and hope you all can help me out.

I notice a lot of people stating that their stones are AGS0 or AGS000- how do you determine if a stone is rated that highly? Is this an AGS rated stone thing only? I noticed on the PS diamond search that some GIA stones are rated AGS0 H&A. If AGS is a rating company different from GIA, how can a GIA stone have an AGS0 rating?

Phew! Can you tell my brain is working overtime trying to understand this one?

 

[Regular Guy]

I think the board administrator is deciding here not to be on the vanguard in creating policy, but deciding to provide shoppers with the most available data possible. In this way, I think a very large number of wholesalers, who participate in making diamonds available in the big db here, also still use old standards for AGS, referring to the old code pointed to in the headline thread here, and inasmuch as they do at least provide this info as something to help describe these stones, Leonid our admin is deciding to continue to make this info available to users here.

Perhaps, with these sets of threads, some thought should be given to some sort of asterisks that will help to unconfuse this situation. Fact is...a comment about a GIA diamond being conforming to even old AGS standards, with no cert otherwise available, is better than nothing. Also, sometimes saying something to clarify is worse than saying nothing. But...seems about time to say something.

 

[Regular Guy]

This recent thread came to mind, in light of some of today''s discussion...

 

[shigidigi]

Was there a discussion on one of the videos today?

 

[belle]

ags lab is the only one that can give a stone the ''0'' grade (which is their highest grade) there are diamonds that, according to number alone, might be candidates for ags0 if they were to be graded by them. sometimes the ags0 numbers are used as a guideline, because they are pretty straightforward but again, only a stone graded by ags as ''0'' can be called such. as far as searches go, you are probably seeing all of the high quality stones lumped in together even though they are not graded by the same labs.

 

[Regular Guy]

Date: 5/8/2007 2:07:51 PM
Author: belle
sometimes the ags0 numbers are used as a guideline, because they are pretty straightforward...

some here would disagree....but the main point here...

Date: 5/8/2007 2:07:51 PM
Author: belle
but again, only a stone graded by ags as ''0'' can be called such. as far as searches go, you are probably seeing all of the high quality stones lumped in together even though they are not graded by the same labs.

Shigidigi is, I think, talking about the box found on the big price search site here, across from: "shape" ...where you can check to find diamonds scoring as what''s being referred to as: AGS0, but where this definition, while trying to change, is clinging to the past. Is it causing consfusion? Well, for Shigidigi maybe, but per Borat...maybe not so much?

 

[shigidigi]

Ira is right- I am looking at the big search and I am confused still!

haha, well, perhaps it is just a wee bit over my head. Thanks for trying to help anyways!