Black Jade
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Hi, Black Jade here again. I just joined and as I wrote in my first post, I love my new ring which I got on Blue Nile after lurking on Pricescope for a few months. I''m interested now in diamond earrings and pendants too though and I don''t think I want to go with Blue Nile for either of these ''wishes''. I wanted to go with them for my ring, because my husband was anxious about the internet and I could show him how Forbes, the New York Times, etc. recommend them. Also, I knew that I didn''t want to upgrade my anniversary ring, it''s not my personality to do that. However I am totally fine with starting small for a present I buy for myself, like earrings or pendant and gradually get up to the size I would like. And Blue Nile doesn''t upgrade.
Also, Blue Nile doesn''t sell lower than J color and SI2 clarity and they don''t sell less than 18k gold. I wanted a very white diamond for my anniversary, in platinum, but I normally very much prefer yellow gold and I prefer warmer colors next to my face. I have been impressed by the look of a lot of diamonds on this site that are ''low'' colors, K, L, M and even lower. I want to go to a site that will let me do that, BUT also keep ideal cut or very good cut, and eye-clean. I actually like a little better than eye-clean for clarity. My Blue Nile diamond is an SI1, and that''s fine, because when I look through the loupe, I only see one tiny inclusion. But I wouldn''t like a diamond that looked good to the eye but had lots of nasty black spots all over it as soon as you put a loupe to it. I just don''t like knowing all that is there, to me it feels like knowing you have roaches in your kitchen even if they run away and hide when you turn on the light. Sorry don''t mean to offend.
Anyhow my questions are:
1)How much money should I reasonably expect to have to spend if I''m willing to buy a yellower (but well cut and reasonably clean) diamond? I should have $500-$600 to spend at the beginning of next year I''m thinking that I can get a small pendant with that, but not earrings. It seems that earrings would be around $900. Is that right?
2)Who would be the best vendor? When I pricescope diamonds of the sort I might be interested in buying I come up with abazias, usa certed, i.d. jewelry and whiteflash. Whiteflash is the only one of these vendors that I see people discuss in these forums a lot--in fact they (and goodoldgold) seem sort of ''promoted'' here. Are the other ones good too?
3) Do I end up spending a lot more money in the long run by going the ''upgrade'' route? That is, would I get a better deal by saving until I had $1200 or $2000 and getting what I wanted straight out, probably in 2010 rather than in 2009? I have a kind of impression that jewellers who upgrade also charge more money from the research I''ve done so far, but this may be wrong.
Thanks for answering my questions! I feel a little nervous posting for the first time but from all my reading here in the past 3 or 4 month, you all seem to be kind!
Black Jade
Also, Blue Nile doesn''t sell lower than J color and SI2 clarity and they don''t sell less than 18k gold. I wanted a very white diamond for my anniversary, in platinum, but I normally very much prefer yellow gold and I prefer warmer colors next to my face. I have been impressed by the look of a lot of diamonds on this site that are ''low'' colors, K, L, M and even lower. I want to go to a site that will let me do that, BUT also keep ideal cut or very good cut, and eye-clean. I actually like a little better than eye-clean for clarity. My Blue Nile diamond is an SI1, and that''s fine, because when I look through the loupe, I only see one tiny inclusion. But I wouldn''t like a diamond that looked good to the eye but had lots of nasty black spots all over it as soon as you put a loupe to it. I just don''t like knowing all that is there, to me it feels like knowing you have roaches in your kitchen even if they run away and hide when you turn on the light. Sorry don''t mean to offend.
Anyhow my questions are:
1)How much money should I reasonably expect to have to spend if I''m willing to buy a yellower (but well cut and reasonably clean) diamond? I should have $500-$600 to spend at the beginning of next year I''m thinking that I can get a small pendant with that, but not earrings. It seems that earrings would be around $900. Is that right?
2)Who would be the best vendor? When I pricescope diamonds of the sort I might be interested in buying I come up with abazias, usa certed, i.d. jewelry and whiteflash. Whiteflash is the only one of these vendors that I see people discuss in these forums a lot--in fact they (and goodoldgold) seem sort of ''promoted'' here. Are the other ones good too?
3) Do I end up spending a lot more money in the long run by going the ''upgrade'' route? That is, would I get a better deal by saving until I had $1200 or $2000 and getting what I wanted straight out, probably in 2010 rather than in 2009? I have a kind of impression that jewellers who upgrade also charge more money from the research I''ve done so far, but this may be wrong.
Thanks for answering my questions! I feel a little nervous posting for the first time but from all my reading here in the past 3 or 4 month, you all seem to be kind!
Black Jade
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