Category: Diamonds

When buying, and especially selling your diamond, it is important to know the true quality of your diamond. You, as a consumer, need to know the actual grades of your diamond in order to get the best pricing when buying and selling.

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) is the world’s undisputed authority on diamonds and provides dealers and the public with lab reports. Being non-profit, the GIA supplies consumers (dealers and the public alike) with non-biased, conservative and consistent grading. There are other laboratories that are for-profit and more liberal in their grading, leading the consumer to believe they have a more rare, and in turn, more valuable diamond, when in reality the client paid a higher retail price than warranted.

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Yes. Not for profit labs tend to grade more critically than for profit labs. The video below shows you how the same diamond recieved two different cut and clarity grades one from the Gemological Institute of America or the GIA (not for profit) and one from the European Gemological Laboratory or EFL (for profit).

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From 11^th century Arabian merchants to the latest flash of Hollywood bling on the red carpet, rare diamonds have always captured our imagination. But what exactly makes a diamond rare?

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