On a somewhat limited budget and wanting the best stone my money can buy, I''m going to go online. But just for the fun of it I stopped in to a local Jared store to see what they could try to sell me. The saleswoman wanted to make sure I was familiar with the 4-C''s, and I tried to act like I hadn''t been stalking PS for the past month learning everything I could. I refused to tell her my budget but told her I wanted a stone that would look very nice on my gf''s finger. She took me to their certified but not ideal diamond section for RBs. All the stones had IGI certifications, and they told me they use that company because they are very conservative in their diamond grading. I wasn''t paying a whole lot of attention to her as she tried to convince me that this .75ct SI2 stone with an obviously mediocre cut was just such a great deal at $2300. Oh it was so lively and they must have been very conservative on that grading because it is so clean and blah blah blah. I never told her I was ready to pay about double that price for a good ring, so I just let her keep talking. The "certificates" didn''t have all the angles and percentages of the diamonds and I almost laughed out loud when I noticed that a .70 diamond had the exact same diameter as a .90 stone. Another young couple was sitting there looking at diamonds telling the saleswoman all the other B&Ms they had visited. In my head I kept thinking I should tell them "Walk out this door and spend a few hours on pricescope."
Before I post the stone I''m buying in the next couple days for comments and suggestions, I want to thank all the experts on PS for educating guys like me and not letting us fall victim to salespeople who want to sell based on fancy lighting and false superlatives about overpriced, low quality stones.
Before I post the stone I''m buying in the next couple days for comments and suggestions, I want to thank all the experts on PS for educating guys like me and not letting us fall victim to salespeople who want to sell based on fancy lighting and false superlatives about overpriced, low quality stones.