Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts

Monday, January 18, 2010

Shop carefully for a Valentine's day

Are you planing to suprice the loved one with some diamond jewelwry? The Valentine's day is just a month ahead and you can start to do your homework earlier this year. The diamond jewelery shoppers can never be to careful. Here are some tips on this year Valentine's day shopping for the diamonds:
1. Choose your Jeweler carefully because you can spend 2-3 salaries for your diamonds.
2. Get familiar with a diamond rule of 4C. 4C stand for Carat weight, Cut, Clarity and Color.
3. Be shore that your purchased diamond have a independent grading report.
4. Secure your purchase with appraisal and insurance. You can also ask your diamond to be laser inscribed with a serial number or some personal message. It it is stolen this can be a way to identify and proof that you are the owner.
5. Are you shore what your beloved realy dream of? If you are not so shore you can buy the loose diamond and get the ring later.
6. Ask for a 30 day guarantee and return policy. If you need you can return the diamond or the jewelery for cash. Do not forget and lost the receipt for the diamond or jewelery.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Shopping for a Diamonds

Where to start?

Place.

If you are out on the market for a diamonds and you really like to have some good deal I will recommend to start with a place of buying. This is very important because the established brand name jewelery shops can go with crazy 200% overhead. So if you like to buy your next diamond jewelery in the most expensive city neighborhood and pay for the reception area, expensive carpets and nice receptionist be my guest. This can be a beautiful experience (and you can have it without buying;-)) if you can afford it and you are ready to spend a couple of thousand dollars more for the same product you can find on internet.
How to buy diamonds on Internet? Is it safe?

Quality of the Diamond

Diamonds quality is set bu the 4C rule.
Carat weight, Cut, Clarity and Color. If you like to brag around your neighborhood with the size of your diamond, you need to go with a carat weight as your main concern and not to worry about the other three properties of the diamond. This is very important for the wedding or engagement rings. The bigger the stone (or stones) the more happy your mother in law will be. Probably she is not a diamond expert and like 99.999% of the people in the world she can not tell the difference between colorless and near colorless diamond or know the difference between perfect cut and shallow cut.
If you like to invest in diamonds I recommend to buy smaller diamonds with smaller carat weight and take care for the color, clarity and cut.

One piece or more

One diamond of the let say 1 carat is much, much more expensive than 4 diamonds each with a weight of 0.25 carats. So you might like to consider a 3 of 4 smaller diamonds in your ring than one solitary with a same quality and carat weight.

Type of setting

Most popular settings are settings made of platinum, yellow and white gold. Gold can be cheaper than platinum more than 60% so you can have more money to spend on the diamonds if you choose gold instead of platinum.

Shape of the diamonds

Shallow diamonds are bigger in diameter than diamonds with a normal cut. Also pear, marquises and oval diamonds appear bigger than diamonds with other designs.

I hope my thinking was helpful and you will be happy with your diamond shopping.