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My experience: Bob Hoskins w/ White Flash

realtanu

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As part of my engagement ring process, I am sharing experiences I have had. I am doing so in pieces, as I have yet to take photos of the ring, for one big post. The ring I did purchase was a 1.56 ct SCHA from GOG set by Leon Mege. The ring came out great.
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I was searching for Square Cushion H&A and was out of luck -- no inventory. I was just poking around Pricescope and learned of Whiteflash. I called up Whiteflash and was put on the phone with Bob Hoskins ([email protected]).

Whiteflash did not have what I was looking for. When I told them I was already working with another vendor for the SCHA, Bob was immediately gentlemanly about situation and wouldn't even suggest taking someone elses sale. Then, after fully knowing he did NOT have the sale, Bob spent 20 minutes on the phone with me answering questions about diamonds: what to look for, 8-mains, square cushions, timing, etc.

Bob was very patient, informed and nice guy. I took advantage of situation to then email him and ask for more help in my final diamond decisions. Bob took the time to advise me -- he didn't ignore me at all. I mean, he didn't have a sale, didn't try to sell me anything, but was happy to to still provide good customer service.

I never discussed pricing with Bob so can't speak to Whiteflash's services otherwise from my own experience with Bob.

I am giving Bob a shout out given i) his patience, ii) his willingess to educate, and iii) personalized customer service.
 
Thanks for posting that, I like to hear about experiences like that.
 
Thank you for your kind words. I was happy to help.

Congratulations on our new ring.

Dimonbob
 
Bob helped me with both my engagement ring and bezel diamond pendant. He's a great guy!
 
Bob is my go to guy. He is very direct, but nice. He gets to the point and gets the job done.
 
realtanu said:
As part of my engagement ring process, I am sharing experiences I have had. I am doing so in pieces, as I have yet to take photos of the ring, for one big post. The ring I did purchase was a 1.56 ct SCHA from GOG set by Leon Mege. The ring came out great.
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I was searching for Square Cushion H&A and was out of luck -- no inventory. I was just poking around Pricescope and learned of Whiteflash. I called up Whiteflash and was put on the phone with Bob Hoskins ([email protected]).

Whiteflash did not have what I was looking for. When I told them I was already working with another vendor for the SCHA, Bob was immediately gentlemanly about situation and wouldn't even suggest taking someone elses sale. Then, after fully knowing he did NOT have the sale, Bob spent 20 minutes on the phone with me answering questions about diamonds: what to look for, 8-mains, square cushions, timing, etc.

Bob was very patient, informed and nice guy. I took advantage of situation to then email him and ask for more help in my final diamond decisions. Bob took the time to advise me -- he didn't ignore me at all. I mean, he didn't have a sale, didn't try to sell me anything, but was happy to to still provide good customer service.

I never discussed pricing with Bob so can't speak to Whiteflash's services otherwise from my own experience with Bob.

I am giving Bob a shout out given i) his patience, ii) his willingess to educate, and iii) personalized customer service.

I had a similar experience to you and found Bob to be really first rate in the customer service department, this was over a year ago.
But what I am curious is does WF stock an inventory or has access to an inventory of SCHA stones?

I thought they didn't but one poster showed that they do have access to them.
 
From my conversation they do not stock them. I think they have access to them. From my research, which was somewhat limited, GOG is the only one who actually stocks much inventory. I probably called 6 different retailers and didn't find any. One issue is the cutter does not cut many of the diamonds so their isn't a lot of inventory out there to access through that route.

At one point I think it had all 3 SCHA of ~1.5ct to be had in my possession (2 from GOG, 1 from Geoffreys). But who knows.. not me..
 
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