After doing a lot of research I decided it was time to see some actual stones, I went and talked with a number of stores. After the third store didn't have anything within the specs I wanted, I was getting ready to go the guy said let's look online and see what we can find. With my right over his shoulder he went to Rapnet.com, logged in and had me put in the parameters I wanted. I was told that I would have to pay whatever price was there plus $500 for his expense.
I was truly surprised by what he pulled up, the prices were MUCH lower than what I have been seeing from both B&M and online. He said that they diamonds listed are from wholesalers and will only sell to jewelers and people part of rapnet (hence the $500 fee). After a bit of looking, he left me alone at the computer to mess around and look, I found 2 stones that looked like real good deals. All the specs, cuts, cert and numbers looked what I wanted. I also noticed that there was a way to "make an offer" so the listed price still had room to move.
Has this happened to anybody else? Does anybody know how much room typically they will move?

What really surprised me was that some of the diamonds with higher carat and specs were less than others with lower size and specs. So I am now waiting for the guy to contact the wholesalers and get the diamonds shipped, he can get any of the diamonds in for me to look at and no commitment on my part. Right now I narrowed the search to the following:
2.17, VS1, I (AGS 000)
2.23, VS2, I (AGS 000)
Seems like a pretty good deal to me or am I missing something here??
I was truly surprised by what he pulled up, the prices were MUCH lower than what I have been seeing from both B&M and online. He said that they diamonds listed are from wholesalers and will only sell to jewelers and people part of rapnet (hence the $500 fee). After a bit of looking, he left me alone at the computer to mess around and look, I found 2 stones that looked like real good deals. All the specs, cuts, cert and numbers looked what I wanted. I also noticed that there was a way to "make an offer" so the listed price still had room to move.
Has this happened to anybody else? Does anybody know how much room typically they will move?



What really surprised me was that some of the diamonds with higher carat and specs were less than others with lower size and specs. So I am now waiting for the guy to contact the wholesalers and get the diamonds shipped, he can get any of the diamonds in for me to look at and no commitment on my part. Right now I narrowed the search to the following:
2.17, VS1, I (AGS 000)
2.23, VS2, I (AGS 000)
Seems like a pretty good deal to me or am I missing something here??