Is this place reputable and certificates?

[-Bella-]

Ok has anyone ever got any diamonds off these people www.israel-diamonds.com????

And its important to buy a diamond with a certificate isn't it? Can someone explain why?

Sorry about the novice questions this is all new to me and hey i have a few years to research before i get my big diamond so i'll put the time to good use

 

[bagelboy]

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Diamonds without a lab certificate are totally valueless in my opinion. The lab certificate gives it a color and clarity rating. These two subjective measurements along with weight determine every diamond's value. If you ordered a steak at a restaurant and waiter gave you soup instead, would you feel these are of equal value and what you desired? Not all lab certificates are equal either. Some inflate their lab grades so that the color and clarity grades do compare from one lab to another lab. If the lab is EGL- Israel, I would not touch it with a 20 foot pole. For instance an EGL- Israel F color could be a GIA J or K color. I would only buy GIA or AGS certed diamonds from about different a half dozen Pricescope vendors. Please by all means, do lots of research before you spend your money. Please have it appraised by a professional appraiser after your purchase. You can buy uncerted diamonds if you wish to gamble with your money. Enjoy your journey from novice to edumacated --like me Oops, Study up on cut if you really want a super sparklie diamond, yes, cut, cut and cut.

 

[Christina...]

Purchasing a diamond with a grading report is very important, and like bagelboy has already explained, who graded the diamond is equally important. Diamond grading is subjective and therefore there is huge differences among labs, hence the reason that we only recommend GIA or AGS reports, as they are the most consistent and accurately graded diamonds in the world. We shy away from labs like EGL because they are notoriously soft in their grading and you can see it reflected in the diamonds pricing. Dealers are not going to sell you a diamond for $1000 if they know that they can sell it to you for $2000. A diamond is sold for what it's worth, regardless of what EGL might grade it as. What I mean by that is, if you are shopping an EGL D IF from a particular vendor and the price is $1000, you then shop from another vendor and he shows you a GIA J SI2 also for $1000, in your mind you are thinking that the GIA stone is a rip off because you can purchase a D IF for the same money, but you would be wrong. The D IF is priced the same as the J SI2 because if GIA were to grade the stone they would have graded it as a J SI2. There are no deals in diamonds. You get what you pay for. The only time I would ever consider an EGL graded stone, or an uncerted stone is if I was able to evaluate the stone in person and then have the stone independently appraised (meaning by an experienced professional who does not sell jewelry) and only paid based on the outcome of that independent evaluation, likely less because I won't have the same selling power with an EGL report as I would a GIA report should I chose to sell the stone in the future.

Without getting into a long spiel, there are a number of reasons that cutting houses chose to send their stones to EGL for grading instead of GIA or AGS, and it's because they can make more money by doing so. You can bet that if they thought the diamond would yield more profit by being sent to GIA or AGS then it would have been sent there. It's also likely that it was and the cutter wasn't happy with report, so he submitted the stone to EGL for their assessment. He would then compare reports and sell the stone based on the report that makes him the most profit. Long story story short, don't buy uncerted or EGL diamonds, there are much safer avenues.