Help with Washed Out ASET?

[Xyathn]

Hello everyone! I've been reading through Pricescope for a few weeks now, thank you for all of the wonderful research everyone has done!

I'm interested in a round brilliant. 1.2 carat, F, VS2, with 34.5 crown angle, 40.8 pavilion angle, 56 Table and 61.9 Depth (see? I've been paying attention to suggestions). I asked the company to take an ASET, hearts & arrows, and video. The video looks good, and the hearts/arrows seem fine, but the center of the ASET looks really washed out. Even the arrows look white, so I have no idea if this diamond is leaking insane amounts of light, or if this is just a bad ASET. An ASET image of another diamond the company took also turned out in a similar fashion.

Does anyone have any thoughts? Is this a really horrible diamond I should stay away from? Is this just a bad image capture? Am I misreading the ASET?

Any help would be appreciated, I never knew that engagement ring shopping would require this much research...

 

[Xyathn]

Forgot to mention it's a GIA certified 3 x Excellent. The only thing holding me back on the stone is the look of the ASET.

 

[mcosme]

Hi I'll help you bump this thread
It does look like there is leakage under the table

 

[Stephan]

It looks like they don't know how to use ASET.
This stone is triple EX, this means that there is no girdle cheating, so with these angles, the white you see is not leakage.
With the main facet angles, I think this diamond is great.
EDIT: not great, but perfect.

 

[gretag]

Yeah ditto that, looks like too much overhead or ambient light did they forget to put the blue top on properly the ASET or they made the hole too big to get a photo? There is little blue(where there should be) and looks like too much light got in from the top. Tell them to retake the ASET more carefully or with a better setup.

 

[gm89uk]

Despite the poor setup I think there are some useful conclusions you can make. I personally think on a well taken photograph that diamond would have significant leakage at the 10oclock and 4oclock positions

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

It is not a poor setup- a lot of the other setups are trying to make an image like the digital ugly AGS ones.
It is an excellent example of a stone that does not match the data.
Request a new image of the stone please

 

[Xyathn]

I've requested another image and will post if/when I get one. I definitely appreciate the advice on this! Based on the above, I can definitely understand why everyone says "don't just go off the numbers, get pictures/images"

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

Paste the cert in please. Cover the number - it can help stop others finding the stone - or put a hold on it

 

[Xyathn]

From the text: 1.2 carat, F, VS2, 3xExcellent, Comments: Pinpoints not shown

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

Even the H&As images are not those proportions. Even though those images have some painting and digging going on. But GIA would have dinged the stone on Ex cut for those matters.

 

[Xyathn]

That's really odd.. the vendor is reaching out to a warehouse/wholesaler for the images, maybe they're taking pictures of the wrong diamond? That doesn't bode well.

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

can be human error - wrong diamond put back into a parcel. typo on saving the file name etc