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Rough_Rock
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- Oct 11, 2009
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PSers, please give me advice. I need your help!!
I plan on purchasing this 5 stone wedding band from a very reputable jewelry store in downtown Boston. The ring in the picture is by Memoire. This is the ring I want but do not want to pay the designer label price. I fell in love with this ring in the store and I told the saleslady that our budget was $2800. She kind of scoffed and was like, "With all respect, where did you see a 5 stone similar ring for that price?" and I said "Bluenile.com" and she said,"oh...please don''t get your wedding band from an online vendor, it''s a safer idea to get it from a store." So, then she said that the Memoire ring was way more than our budget but that the store makes a ring almost identical to it and she could get it close to our budget. The prices she came back with were this:
Memoire, retails $7200, my price $6100, white gold
The jewelry store''s own copy cat version: retails for $3195, my price would be $2700, white gold, G H or I color, "very good" cut. The stones are .25 each, with 5 stones total.
I''m surprised she came back at $2700 because I cannot even build a bluenile identical ring for less than $3,000 with identical 4Cs. Also, I went to another really nice store in the city and their exact same ring was $4500!!! I think my saleslady purposely came in under the price I quoted so that I buy from there. Truthfully, $2800 is NOT our bottom line and now I am wondering if I can get a better color diamond (like an F colorless) but when I asked the salelady if I should she said that there really is no point in getting better than the near colorless range when you have that small of diamonds and a very good cut. I am worried that she may be lying to me in order for me to stay under my "budget" so that I purchase from her.
Please tell me if you think her logic is sound!!! (that spending extra money to get DEF versus GHI in .25 diamonds is pointless)
Thank you in advance!
I plan on purchasing this 5 stone wedding band from a very reputable jewelry store in downtown Boston. The ring in the picture is by Memoire. This is the ring I want but do not want to pay the designer label price. I fell in love with this ring in the store and I told the saleslady that our budget was $2800. She kind of scoffed and was like, "With all respect, where did you see a 5 stone similar ring for that price?" and I said "Bluenile.com" and she said,"oh...please don''t get your wedding band from an online vendor, it''s a safer idea to get it from a store." So, then she said that the Memoire ring was way more than our budget but that the store makes a ring almost identical to it and she could get it close to our budget. The prices she came back with were this:
Memoire, retails $7200, my price $6100, white gold
The jewelry store''s own copy cat version: retails for $3195, my price would be $2700, white gold, G H or I color, "very good" cut. The stones are .25 each, with 5 stones total.
I''m surprised she came back at $2700 because I cannot even build a bluenile identical ring for less than $3,000 with identical 4Cs. Also, I went to another really nice store in the city and their exact same ring was $4500!!! I think my saleslady purposely came in under the price I quoted so that I buy from there. Truthfully, $2800 is NOT our bottom line and now I am wondering if I can get a better color diamond (like an F colorless) but when I asked the salelady if I should she said that there really is no point in getting better than the near colorless range when you have that small of diamonds and a very good cut. I am worried that she may be lying to me in order for me to stay under my "budget" so that I purchase from her.
Please tell me if you think her logic is sound!!! (that spending extra money to get DEF versus GHI in .25 diamonds is pointless)
Thank you in advance!
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