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re: How to get the best deal on an engagement ring
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:34 am to PortHudsonPlaya
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:34 am to PortHudsonPlaya
Find a jewelry wholesaler out of your region. Usually they can't sell direct to consumers in the area they serve but they can sell direct to consumers outside the area. Trust me by far the best deal. just usually have to pay for it in cash.
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Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:35 am to PortHudsonPlaya
shop etsy
nb4 ghey
She'll be able to tell all her friends it was custom made, and you'll look like a boss while saving thousands.
nb4 ghey
She'll be able to tell all her friends it was custom made, and you'll look like a boss while saving thousands.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:36 am to TexasTiger39
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This is 100% not true.
No it's not. One of my close friends owns A Bryan's in Laffy. Hes got every too certification that exists and designs and builds rings as well.
He now carries a line of top man made (it may not be called cz, I'll call and find out the top ones name).
Found it, the best of the best is the lab grown ones
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The International Institute of Diamond Grading & Research offers several verification instruments (at pretty hefty price points) that can tell the difference between lab-grown and natural diamonds in a matter of minutes or seconds. In the DiamondView machine, type IIa natural diamonds fluoresce blue while lab-grown ones using the CVD technique fluoresce orange. But the DiamondView costs up to $36,000. The D-Screen, a handheld device, is only about $500 and can tell you whether a stone is natural or could be lab-grown or lab-treated to make it colorless. You still have to test those stones in a lab (using a device like DiamondView) to know for sure if it’s natural or not, though. Watch the DiamondView in action here:
That is from a simple search in a science magazine.
This below is from a too genealogist in the world:
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IS THERE A WAY TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE?
"Although it is difficult for the naked eye to tell the difference between a real diamond and a laboratory-grown diamond, there is a detection device on the market that can easily tell the difference. These devices will soon become a must-have in retail stores all over the world and the detection will continue to become easier and easier as technology advances. We are also seeing more and more companies' laser inscribe the side of the stone to disclose that it is synthetic—making it easier to distinguish. When buying a diamond, it is essential to ensure that it comes with certification from a reputable third-party certification company such as GIA, IIDGR, AGS, or HRD. All of these will note if the stone is in fact lab-grown."
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That's why we sat down with Grant Mobley, a gemologist, a director at Pluczenik and one of the world's leading diamantaires to talk about the nitty gritty of diamonds—to make sure you're never caught out.
Again, I state facts. At a dinner table, with experts, they would have trouble or not be able to tell by looking at her hand with bare eyes.
So, back to the conversation. It's just about fact that if your wife walks around with a 2 carat lab grown fake, her whole life sh will basically see no one that would ever be able to tell it weren't real with their bare eyes.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:37 am to Box Geauxrilla
quote:Are there better prices out there for the kind of diamond I bought, with identical qualities?
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:38 am to PortHudsonPlaya
If you're a legit playa, go to Jared's.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:38 am to glaceau
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De Beers.
Blood diamonds
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:39 am to Pecker
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that I spent around $27k total.
That’s retarded, bubba.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:41 am to GeeOH
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No it's not. One of my close friends owns A Bryan's in Laffy. Hes got every too certification that exists and designs and builds rings as well.
He now carries a line of top man made (it may not be called cz, I'll call and find out the top ones name).
Found it, the best of the best is the lab grown ones
The good lab stones are pricey, some almost as mush as regular stones. But experts can tell a difference and the equipment needed if unable is usually at every jeweler and not expensive as made to seem in quote
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:42 am to TH03
quote:why? She'll have it her entire life (theoretically)
That’s retarded, bubba.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:43 am to PortHudsonPlaya
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How much wiggle room do they have? I’ve heard some will come down up to 40% but you have to Jew around with them.
With that mentality you’ll wind up paying 1000% over retail.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:43 am to GeeOH
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At a dinner table, with experts, they would have trouble or not be able to tell by looking at her hand with bare eyes
And how many experts are gonna scrutinize the ring. My wife has a $20 cz ring that she wears sometimes and other women always compliment it.
This post was edited on 7/30/18 at 10:44 am
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:43 am to Pecker
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That’s retarded, bubba.
why? She'll have it her entire life (theoretically)
If you feel that you need to spend a lot of money for her to be happy then you don't want her anyway.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:44 am to Pecker
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when you consider that I spent
thank you for leaving some women out there for the rest of us
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:44 am to Pecker
She’d have a $10k ring the same amount of time. (Theoretically) 
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:46 am to Box Geauxrilla
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If you feel that you need to spend a lot of money for her to be happy then you don't want her anyway.
I didn't need to do anything. I did it because I wanted to. I could have given her a yarn ring and she would have married me.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:47 am to Pecker
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Women with expensive rings get insurance on them. If you bought her a big cz and told her it was real, you better hope she doesn't decide to one day get it appraised for insurance
LOL...agreed. my wife is a professional and has always worked in a great income environment.
She would be pissed if I bought her a $20k ring or earrings that she wears out and about. She buys cz type stuff all the time..mostly because she values money and understands what women act like over diamonds.
Sure, she has a few real items to pass on over sentimental reasons. But they have no value unless they are sold. Which defeats the purpose
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:49 am to TH03
quote:True. But it's a nice thing I wanted to do. She'll wear it every day for the rest of her life (theoretically).
She’d have a $10k ring the same amount of time. (Theoretically)
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:52 am to Rendevoustavern
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Find a store that doesn't have a store in a neighboring state, mail it to an out of state address that you can access or friend - saves whatever your state sales tax is. This is applicable to just about everything
This.
Saved about a grand shipping it to Florida.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:53 am to PortHudsonPlaya
They will call you with a price... say you know i really like the diamond but the price is out of my range. They will come down 15-20% and then you say i think im gonna pass. Then you call them back and give them your price which is another 10% lower and say if you meet it ill buy it period. I do this shite with window companies and everything... they will always come down to your price.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:53 am to PortHudsonPlaya
Buy a diamond from a wholesaler, like A Fishman and Sons, then get a ring made...preferably at a nice jeweler who works through multiple national designers, like Jeff Cooper or the like.
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