Since PS have you become immune to huge bling?

[Dancing Fire]

I'm curious to know how many Pser are able to recognize a big simulated from a real diamond from distance.

In USA it's usual to wear false thing. False nails, false diamond, false brand clothes. This is why I love Pricescope, cause I know there are real diamonds and real gemstones!

In my little town, if I saw a big ring I'm pretty sure it's a zellers one. Nobody wear a diamond over 1 carat and 1 carat is very rare good quality or not!

I'll bet lots of people think they can tell a real from a good fake.
I have no idea if I can tell, but I'd love to learn how.
I'd love to have someone teach me and then test me.

Kenny...hope you are referring to diamonds...

 

[kenny]

Hahahaha!

 

[athenaworth]

I'm curious to know how many Pser are able to recognize a big simulated from a real diamond from distance.

In USA it's usual to wear false thing. False nails, false diamond, false brand clothes. This is why I love Pricescope, cause I know there are real diamonds and real gemstones!

In my little town, if I saw a big ring I'm pretty sure it's a zellers one. Nobody wear a diamond over 1 carat and 1 carat is very rare good quality or not!

I'll bet lots of people think they can tell a real from a good fake.
I have no idea if I can tell, but I'd love to learn how.
I'd love to have someone teach me and then test me.

Kenny...hope you are referring to diamonds...

LOL!

 

[Dreamer_D]

I never see really great bling in my real life, but if I did I would be so happy and dazzled! I rarely see anything well cut, and nothing over .5ct in general.

But Athena, I do feel like you. I used to be jealous of my friend's princess cut ring, it was what spurred me to get a diamond a few years ago! And it seems so huge and blingy. Now, woe is me, her .80ct seems small! Still very pretty, she has the nicest bling of anyone I know, but my eyes have changed perspective!

 

[tuffyluvr]

1.6ct is big!!! you're nutso caputso and all that matters about the style is that YOU love it--it is YOUR ring after all. and it looks lovely in your avatar

 

[iugurl]

IRL, I am not immune to huge bling. There aren't a lot of ppl in my area that have 1.5 or larger. I always look at ppls rings. I don't care if it is .2 or 2 ct. I always admire rings. However, when I see a large one I stare at it longer, since they are more rare

While looking on PS, yes I am immune. So many people have large diamonds. IRL I would be impressed by a big diamond w/ a halo. On PS, every other ring is a haloed round. I love halos, but after awhile, they aren't as impressive online. (no offense!)

 

[Indylady]

Nope, not immune.

I double-take on diamonds, and I also do double-takes on interesting gems.

 

[Black Jade]

I'm curious to know how many Pser are able to recognize a big simulated from a real diamond from distance.

In USA it's usual to wear false thing. False nails, false diamond, false brand clothes. This is why I love Pricescope, cause I know there are real diamonds and real gemstones!

In my little town, if I saw a big ring I'm pretty sure it's a zellers one. Nobody wear a diamond over 1 carat and 1 carat is very rare good quality or not!

What's zellers, stci?

I can't tell from a distance.

Up close, if a CZ (cubic zirconia) is larger (over one carat) I can generally tell, especially if its got dirty at all (which they do really quickly). CZ look very diamond-like when clean, especially if well-cut, but when they get dirty, they get to be a strange kind of whitish-white and kind of glarey and glassy and do not look real at all. You notice this especially in earrings, because so many people in the US have CZ earrings. It's common to have a real ring, which is expensive and then get bigger CZ earrings or a big pendant, and have them set in real gold or silver, but they get that odd, off look. It's worse if they aren't well-cut.

Some simulants are supposed to be impossible to tell, I don't know, maybe they are and they have fooled me and I didn't know, but what turns me off from them often is that they cost so very much, you would be able to get a smaller (and real) diamond, which I prefer, personally.

What's interesting is that it is very hard to tell a CZ from a diamond if it is smaller and if it is a lot of little stones, like an eternity ring and you windex it once it a while, it is practically impossible. But when people get CZs they generally get enormous ones. If you go to the sites where they sell them, you hear people referring to two and three carat rings and earrings as 'affordable' and 'realistic' which is just not true for most people. But that's another question.

Fancy shapes in CZs are generally easier to spot than round brilliants. YOu get all kinds of funky cuts, especially for step cuts, they don't look real at all.

It's something that I happen to notice, but I don't really care if someone is wearing a fake diamond or judge them harshly for it. I would rather see something wearing a fake than going into debt for something they can't afford! But I think a lot of people who aren't obsessed with diamonds decide if a diamond is real or not purely by the size and by whether the rest of your appearance or your job appears to match up with it. But I know from experience that this can lead you astray. My grandmother started life as lawyer's wife and had a beautiful and HUGE OEC diamond ring. Later she had troubles and worked as a live-in maid for a time, and later as a nurse-companion to older people. I am sure that many of her employers were secretly pitying her for thinking she was fooling anyone with her enormous fake diamond ring, but the laugh was on them because it was totally real.

 

[gardengloves]

as a NYC E train rider on a daily basis, size of bling is a humbling experience. there are many beautiful sparking large size diamonds worn in the most casual way. I swear there are 4+ carat beauties almost once a week. they really make you stop and look. the open prong settings on a massive stone really show the enormous weight and dimensions of the rock even if you can't see it front up.

I am always looking and enjoying the beauty around.

 

[LGK]

I'm curious to know how many Pser are able to recognize a big simulated from a real diamond from distance.

In USA it's usual to wear false thing. False nails, false diamond, false brand clothes. This is why I love Pricescope, cause I know there are real diamonds and real gemstones!

In my little town, if I saw a big ring I'm pretty sure it's a zellers one. Nobody wear a diamond over 1 carat and 1 carat is very rare good quality or not!

Fakes are really tough to spot, if they're good. Crappy fakes? Easy. Good ones? Oh heck no. Moissanite is easy to spot once you actually see and handle one- it doesn't look that diamondy IMO. But a good CZ, especially a well cut one with some body color and in a nice setting? Lord, no- those are really, really tough to pick out.

Frankly though, I don't think you really see many fakes being passed off as e-rings. Earrings, sure, all the time- and fashion/RHR. But not really e-rings, I think most people would prefer a small real stone 99% of the time. (I do occasionally see some folks wearing stuff off QVC that's instantly recognizable by the settings, but not often, that's for sure.)

I do appreciate good workmanship and a beautiful, well cut and clean rock of *any* size, and I love seeing some of the gorgeous pieces on customers at work. I am a huge fan of any really awesome antique piece and will shamelessly ask to see them on people's hands up close. (And 99.9% of people love having someone notice their jewelry and chat with them about it.)

 

[MichelleCarmen]

I don't know, I sort of separate Pricescope photos from real life. I like looking at them, but it's like looking at models in magazines. I don't expect people to start looking like that in real life.

I don't see a lot of big bling anywhere I go (which often includes NYC). I also don't see a lot of pretty bling-- and as some have said, I appreciate that a lot more.

Before I was on Pricescope, I actually thought I didn't like diamonds that much, since I so rarely saw anything that was pretty and had sparkle. I still appreciate when I see pretty stones a lot.

I have got better at estimating actual diamond sizes since being on Pricescope. Before I was, I thought anything bigger than mine at the time (a .3 was 'about a carat'. for me, it was just a kind of shorthand for saying 'a big stone.' I had no idea what a carat looked like. Now that I know, I notice how rarely I see one. Most of the rings I see have from about .25-.75.

One thing I wnat to add--I mean this is no way to sound offensive. But I have been on Pricescope off and on for three years now, and I have looked at a whole lot of the old posts (back when looking at old posts was easier because search was more user friendly). I think one reason that I don't have more 'lust' about the beautiful rings on here is that they go in cycles. It seems that many, many people get similar rings at around the same time. The first ones look gorgeous. The later ones are still gorgeous, but by then I have seen so many that I'm kind of over the style. Even though I still haven't seen it in real life. So I keep coming back again and again to just loving the very simple solitaires with the very high quality diamonds of whatever size. I don't know if this makes sense. I get zonked out on asscher cuts with pave, or split shanks, or cushion cuts or whatever the current trend here is even though I haven't seen them in real life

Yep, same. Seems like many styles are trendy after a year or two. I'm seeing really popular styles on mall advertisements ALL over the place of once one-of-a-kind. That's one reason I prefer classic styles.

I don't thing I'm immune to huge bling. When a well-cut, clean stone (regardless of size) catches my eye, I will admire it, but NEVER compliment anymore because you never know if the diamond is real or not (and yes, some have ended up being fake!). It still always amazes me when a person will have an highly impressive house and a really low-quality diamond ring! lol