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I had this once in a lifetime stone pop up in an ad, so I ciicked through so I could feel poor and deprived: 
https://www.briangavindiamonds.com/diamonds/diamond-details/0.810-pink-si1-round-diamond-gia-238093
I wanted to look at the GIA cert so I could see how well it's cut--colored stones of that caliber are usually not round brilliants. But the link to pull up the report gave me a blank screen. So I searched on the number which turned out to be an SKU, not a cert number, and found this:
https://www.leibish.com/pink-diamonds/fancy-intense-pink-round-25838
Same SKU, same stats, not the sort of stone you see every day. Same stone.
I could believe it's a virtual stone. It's a little hard to imagine someone putting that stone out on memo, but sure, Brian Gavin customers need to see that stone. What I don't understand is it having the same SKU.
In case you don't know:SKU is store keeping unit, and is used by stores to tie their cash registers to their pricing, inventory control, and purchasing software. For a diamond store each stone would have its own SKU. There's no rules on how a store uses their SKU. All the bags of potato chips will have the same SKU; cars and diamonds will have a unique SKU. They might track sales at the back of the store vs. sales at the register, sales in different branches, etc. It's just that the same SKU implies they are sharing inventory information.
https://www.briangavindiamonds.com/diamonds/diamond-details/0.810-pink-si1-round-diamond-gia-238093
I wanted to look at the GIA cert so I could see how well it's cut--colored stones of that caliber are usually not round brilliants. But the link to pull up the report gave me a blank screen. So I searched on the number which turned out to be an SKU, not a cert number, and found this:
https://www.leibish.com/pink-diamonds/fancy-intense-pink-round-25838
Same SKU, same stats, not the sort of stone you see every day. Same stone.
I could believe it's a virtual stone. It's a little hard to imagine someone putting that stone out on memo, but sure, Brian Gavin customers need to see that stone. What I don't understand is it having the same SKU.
In case you don't know:SKU is store keeping unit, and is used by stores to tie their cash registers to their pricing, inventory control, and purchasing software. For a diamond store each stone would have its own SKU. There's no rules on how a store uses their SKU. All the bags of potato chips will have the same SKU; cars and diamonds will have a unique SKU. They might track sales at the back of the store vs. sales at the register, sales in different branches, etc. It's just that the same SKU implies they are sharing inventory information.
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