Personally I would recommend you look at a couple of the PS vendors such as Whiteflash, Good old Gold, Wink Jones. You could tell them what you are looking for and budget, and let them assist you with their expertise. EC's are tricky to evaluate by the numbers, so the help of an expert who either has stones in house or can source them, provide pics and cut analysis images and ultimately use their own experience to help you, is the best way in my opinion, to get a great EC.
In my case (my DW''s, actually) I was more willing to go down in color rather than clarity. But this is a personal choice -- if you have the time and patience, try to see as many colors and clarities in B&M stores to see what seems preferrable to you. (As an aside, I ended up choosing a J VS1).
I would again suggest contacting an expert vendor to try to source you some stones, especially with the budget. If they find one which may not look so good on paper but it stunning in reality ( as the case may be), then I would certainly consider it, to avoid limiting yourself. Also perhaps consider an EGL USA stone if one comes along and the vendor rates it, this could be a way of getting a larger diamond perhaps if you are open to the idea.
True, as it seems our poster is budget conscious, with the sums involved I thought it might be worth mentioning, as the poster wants a certain size for the money. WF will sell an EGL stone if it passes their tests and approval I believe, but it won't be upgradable, no. If the OP doesn't have any plans to upgrade, then it could be worth considering.
We will need pics and ASET images of the diamonds if you can get them to post please. Be careful with Ebay as Po cautions, I would rather see you use a PS vendor as they are a known quantity. Don't let GOG intimidate you, Jon and his staff are very nice and would be pleased to help you! You never know what the vendors can produce, even if they don't have some diamonds listed, they may know of some stones.
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