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I am not sure (since it isn't good English anyway) whether it is better to say, "Diamond Shrinking Syndrome" or "Diamond Shrinkage Syndrome" when writing out the words of the acronym: DSS. Most of us on Pricescope know what DSS stands for, however. It is the almost universal phenomenon that hits longtime members of our forum, making our diamonds get (quite inexplicably) smaller over time. A perfectly good one carat diamond that used to look big on one's hand suddenly shrinks to the size of a grain of sand after a while.
At any rate, some of us decide that we would like to buy bigger diamonds to replace the smaller diamonds with which we started out. Unless we have a sentimental attachment to the diamond with which we started out (and sometimes even if we do), we sometimes wish to sell the original diamond to help finance the purchase of the larger diamond. And therein lies a dilemma.
Did we buy a diamond with a trade-up policy the first time we purchased a diamond? Those of us who had not, yet, found Pricescope certainly did not! We had no idea that we might ever need such a thing! So now we are are stuck with reselling a diamond. And it won't sell for a fraction of what we paid for it. So it will go at a loss...but how do we sell it at all? What do we do?
Obviously some enterprising Pricescopers have turned to selling their "preloved jewels" on their own here on the Internet. Others of us do not want to take on that burden, however. There are jewelers with whom one can consign pieces. Like Pearlman's.
I have been wondering, however, if an individual might offer a service of selling the jewelry belonging to others (be it on the Internet or in consigment shops) and then taking a percentage of the profit for doing that. Someone highly respected and in the field. Because it would be worth it to people like me who might want to sell large numbers of valuable pieces (in my case to upgrade to a three carat diamond) but who don't want to have to list lots of other pieces themselves! I mean someone who would take your six or seven good pieces-enagage to sell them- do take a cut-then give your cut. All at once. Not in dribs and drabs. What do you think?
I am interested in the thoughts others have in upgrading and its costs.
Deb/AGBF
At any rate, some of us decide that we would like to buy bigger diamonds to replace the smaller diamonds with which we started out. Unless we have a sentimental attachment to the diamond with which we started out (and sometimes even if we do), we sometimes wish to sell the original diamond to help finance the purchase of the larger diamond. And therein lies a dilemma.
Did we buy a diamond with a trade-up policy the first time we purchased a diamond? Those of us who had not, yet, found Pricescope certainly did not! We had no idea that we might ever need such a thing! So now we are are stuck with reselling a diamond. And it won't sell for a fraction of what we paid for it. So it will go at a loss...but how do we sell it at all? What do we do?
Obviously some enterprising Pricescopers have turned to selling their "preloved jewels" on their own here on the Internet. Others of us do not want to take on that burden, however. There are jewelers with whom one can consign pieces. Like Pearlman's.
I have been wondering, however, if an individual might offer a service of selling the jewelry belonging to others (be it on the Internet or in consigment shops) and then taking a percentage of the profit for doing that. Someone highly respected and in the field. Because it would be worth it to people like me who might want to sell large numbers of valuable pieces (in my case to upgrade to a three carat diamond) but who don't want to have to list lots of other pieces themselves! I mean someone who would take your six or seven good pieces-enagage to sell them- do take a cut-then give your cut. All at once. Not in dribs and drabs. What do you think?
I am interested in the thoughts others have in upgrading and its costs.
Deb/AGBF
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