I''m trying to find a 1.3-1.4ct round brilliant, and there''s very little selection when using the "in-house" search. But, when you search all diamonds, you get very little information about the diamond (particularly the cut). Questions:
* How do the "in-house" diamonds become in-house? Many of them appear to have large inclusions right in the middle of the table. This leads me to believe that "in-house" diamonds are ones that previous customers called in, then rejected, but then the jeweler keeps "in-house" since the reports/pictures/etc were already made. If that''s the case, other than the super-premium branded ones, it seems to make sense to avoid "in-house"?
* For the "virtual" diamonds, how much thought went into the pricing? Has the actual owner of the diamond already done all the reports/pictures/etc to figure out the true worth of the diamond? Or might I get lucky by picking the right one? If they''ve already done all the work, why don''t they make the reports, photos, etc, available to the dealers to avoid having to drop-ship just to evaluate it?
* How much does it cost a dealer to have a diamond called in, take all the pictures, etc? As an uneducated guess, I might imagine it''d cost $100. In that case, I''d feel bad requesting many diamonds called in, especially since I am not binding myself to purchasing any of them at all. What''s the normal etiquette here?
* It seems like inventory is fairly low this time of year. Given that DeBeers has a huge stock sitting out in some warehouse, why don''t they release stock to keep inventories normal? I feel like I have to wait until next year to find the right diamond, whereas I''d rather buy on my schedule than based on "inventory".
Thanks for any thoughts!
* How do the "in-house" diamonds become in-house? Many of them appear to have large inclusions right in the middle of the table. This leads me to believe that "in-house" diamonds are ones that previous customers called in, then rejected, but then the jeweler keeps "in-house" since the reports/pictures/etc were already made. If that''s the case, other than the super-premium branded ones, it seems to make sense to avoid "in-house"?
* For the "virtual" diamonds, how much thought went into the pricing? Has the actual owner of the diamond already done all the reports/pictures/etc to figure out the true worth of the diamond? Or might I get lucky by picking the right one? If they''ve already done all the work, why don''t they make the reports, photos, etc, available to the dealers to avoid having to drop-ship just to evaluate it?
* How much does it cost a dealer to have a diamond called in, take all the pictures, etc? As an uneducated guess, I might imagine it''d cost $100. In that case, I''d feel bad requesting many diamonds called in, especially since I am not binding myself to purchasing any of them at all. What''s the normal etiquette here?
* It seems like inventory is fairly low this time of year. Given that DeBeers has a huge stock sitting out in some warehouse, why don''t they release stock to keep inventories normal? I feel like I have to wait until next year to find the right diamond, whereas I''d rather buy on my schedule than based on "inventory".
Thanks for any thoughts!