melee or cert?

[stoberto]

Once again, thanks for the help everyone has been. I think i have decided on what to get, but I have another question.

Since I have a low budget, Whiteflash offered to put melee .25 stones as my sidestones (ACA)....on the other hand, if I spend 300-400$ more, I can get .31 ACA AGS certified stones (or expert selection for a tad less if I can find some I like). While I am told that the melee will be G-H VS quality, I feel like I will have better piece of mind spending a little more and getting certified stones that I can see an IdealScope for (not to mention a bit bigger too). Do you think that I am being silly and should go with the melee, or do you agree with me? Thanks for your opinons once again.....

Andrew

 

[JulieN]

WF will send you IS pictures of .25 stones

I know they did it for Dancing Fire''s 5stone ring. I think it was .20 or .25 stones each. IS images for all of them!

 

[stoberto]

they told me that they would photograph them for me, but they don''t do ideal scopes for uncert stones?

 

[JulieN]

actually, maybe i misremembered.

anyway, here''s the thread on DF''s 1.27 ct 5 stone: https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/pick-up-this-from-fed-ex-today-wf-aca-5-stone-plat-ring-1-27-ctw.28389/

 

[belle]

just because the stones aren''t graded doesn''t mean they arent'' high quality. you will be getting great looking diamonds. if you absolutely *need* the graded stones for piece of mind, by all means, do it. otherwise, i think you will be more than happy with the melee. best of luck with your decision.

 

[JulieN]

ask if they'll take H&A pictures of them.

after all, they're supposed to be ACA. back it up with some pics.

ETA: ok, my bad; seems like WF ran Sarins on all of them.

 

[Kaleigh]

Date: 5/5/2006 3:14:37 PM
Author: belle
just because the stones aren''t graded doesn''t mean they arent'' high quality. you will be getting great looking diamonds. if you absolutely *need* the graded stones for piece of mind, by all means, do it. otherwise, i think you will be more than happy with the melee. best of luck with your decision.

So true!!

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 5/5/2006 3:15:27 PM
Author: JulieN
ask if they''ll take H&A pictures of them.

after all, they''re supposed to be ACA. back it up with some pics.

ETA: ok, my bad; seems like WF ran Sarins on all of them.

Julie
Brian pick out 5 matching stones out of a group of .25ct stones that they had inhouse and ran it through the sarin for me.

 

[Sundial]

If you really want the bigger size then I would spend the money to go with the certified stones. Otherwise you should be just fine with the .25 melee. My new Whiteflash bracelet has .16 ACA melee stones (18 of them) and they are breathtaking!

 

[stoberto]

Thanks for the advice everyone, I may go with the Melee and a higher quality center after reading the responses...we''ll see