Need help, is this a decent price

[mboese8]

I am new to all of this, never having bought a single piece of jewelry before. It is a round cut diamond.

.84 ct Si2 I
6.05 x 3.69
depth 61%
table 58%
symm: good
polish: good
EGL cert.
price $2,400

Any help is appreciated!!

 

[valeria101]

The stone has lots of issues and you can get one with simmilar specs for $1600 listed right here. What more can I say?

Since you are set to spend a reasonable amount on this - it figures, you may want to read a bit through the tutorial here? There are lots of details that need to be considered, beyond the info given on the stone you have posted. Just my opinion, of course.

 

[phoenixgirl]

I found the following three diamonds online . . . your stone is on average 50% more expensive than they are:

Stone 1

Stone 2

Stone 3

Also, EGL is known to be more lenient. GIA and AGS certs are considered to be more reliable. That means that if sent to the GIA, your stone *might* have been graded more like a J I1.

Here is the kind of stone that would give you your money's worth:

0.768 H&A I SI1 GIA cert for $2300

Note: I tried to find some more stones in your range with cut information (I never like to recommend something without knowing its crown and pavilion angles), but there weren't a lot of stones in this size and color/clarity combo. I just didn't want you to think that I'm biased -- I generally try to find an assortment.

 

[valeria101]

Your post got me bargain hunting, so here's one find:

0.97cts I SI1, EGL, HCA 1.2, $2500

By crown and pavilion height on the EGL cert, it gets a very high cut quality grade (1.2 HCA). So, in my opinion, even if this is a less rpecise measurememnt, this stone would still be great even if a serious margin for error is allowed. 'Very Good' symetry is also an extra argument for this one... The depth could be a tad less, but it is no disaster as is. The piece looks like a great buy: a stone with great cut proportions but outside the 'ideal' range for which there would be a justified premium.

(BTW: these comments apears in two of my posts).

 

[mboese8]

Thanks for all the advice, I have gone to over a dozen different jewelers around the area and this was probably the best diamond I looked at and the lowest price. Most of the diamonds are not certified at the same or higher prices. Like I said, I am really a rookie at all of this. The prices on the internet are extremely low compared to what I have looked at, but I do have reserves about buying something like this over the internet. I am curious how a jeweler would react to showing him the prices of similiar diamonds for sale on the internet,

 

[valeria101]

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On 3/22/2004 10:06:14 PM mboese8 wrote:



I am curious how a jeweler would react to showing him the prices of similiar diamonds for sale on the internet,----------------

Probaly not all that well: they know many people would end up baying online, so you could hear lots of bad things about doing so. It makes good advertising, I guess, when competition gets critical.

However, that the average is rather more black than white, it does not mean that quite a few internet sellers do not have their own shops well anchored into the ground

and make the best of the two worlds.