Free GIA Verification?? for Consumers

DBM · Nov 13, 2006

Hi All.

Maybe some of the experienced jewelers and diamond dealers can enlighten me. I had a long distance customer drop by recently who insisted that after he purchased a GIA diamond from me he wanted it directly shipped/delivered to GIA where they would, i don''t know exactly, recheck?? or verify?? or appraise?? or something it for him, all for free. In the end I let the customer go because i wasn''t interested in the hassle but i''m curious to know if anyone here knows about this or actually accomodates often these kind of requests???...

I guess i''m being kind of lazy to come and ask this here instead of just calling up GIA myself but hey -- here it''s much more fun

Thx in advance

Daniel
DBM Diamonds

Garry H (Cut Nut) · Nov 13, 2006

It was a free service for a period because of Certifigate - the GIA scandal where they were said to have had graders bribed.

It was really only an issue for huge rocks.

Otherwise you can do a free online report check with just the stone weight and report 3 here http://www.gia.edu/reportcheck/

denverappraiser · Nov 13, 2006

GIA will, for 50% of their usual fees, examine a stone and a report issued by them describing it to confirm that the information presented is correct. For a brief window after the certifigate problems they were offering this service for ‘free’. All shipping and insurance fees are, of course, unchanged.

Details at www.gia.edu

Neil Beaty
GG(GIA) ICGA(AGS) NAJA
Professional Appraisals in Denver