Hi all-
Another newbie coming out of lurkerdom! After lurking for months and learning soooooo much, we are getting ready to get going on my e-ring upgrade. I have several diamond possibilities (mainly at GOG and WF) in the 1.35-1.5 range. I have not contacted anyone because I wanted to have the setting decided - that has become the problem. After many, many more hours (days, weeks) of surfing online for ideas and trips to several B&M stores such as Jareds, Robbins Bros., Helzberg, many mall offerings and even a few mom & pop jewelers I think I have decided on an A Jaffe setting. There is not a ton of info on this designer here - but I''ve read the posts there are. I can''t seem to find the setting anywhere online (it was at a Robbins Bros. store.) I checked the A Jaffe website, Pearlman''s, Soloman Brothers, Michael Fina and anywhere else that came up - no luck.
Since I believe I want to purchase a diamond online, I''m not sure what to do. I don''t feel entirely comfortable bringing my own diamond to Robbins Bros. to have it set - they seemed to frown on it and kept telling me they have no responsibility if something happens while they are setting it.
And when we agreed to look at some of their diamonds (after I shared the info on the diamonds we are looking at online) they said they needed to check the inventory and would get back to us - they haven''t and didn''t return my DH phone calls.
Although I feel like I learned so much here - I''m afraid I''m going to end up going to a B&M option because I feel like I don''t know what I''m doing.
This is the setting (hopefully it attaches - this is tricky!)

Another newbie coming out of lurkerdom! After lurking for months and learning soooooo much, we are getting ready to get going on my e-ring upgrade. I have several diamond possibilities (mainly at GOG and WF) in the 1.35-1.5 range. I have not contacted anyone because I wanted to have the setting decided - that has become the problem. After many, many more hours (days, weeks) of surfing online for ideas and trips to several B&M stores such as Jareds, Robbins Bros., Helzberg, many mall offerings and even a few mom & pop jewelers I think I have decided on an A Jaffe setting. There is not a ton of info on this designer here - but I''ve read the posts there are. I can''t seem to find the setting anywhere online (it was at a Robbins Bros. store.) I checked the A Jaffe website, Pearlman''s, Soloman Brothers, Michael Fina and anywhere else that came up - no luck.
Since I believe I want to purchase a diamond online, I''m not sure what to do. I don''t feel entirely comfortable bringing my own diamond to Robbins Bros. to have it set - they seemed to frown on it and kept telling me they have no responsibility if something happens while they are setting it.

Although I feel like I learned so much here - I''m afraid I''m going to end up going to a B&M option because I feel like I don''t know what I''m doing.
This is the setting (hopefully it attaches - this is tricky!)
