Hello group

i've found this fancy pink purple diamond ring; however have run into a stumper with the descrption as it says "Fancy Purple Pink Raidan diamond Ring surroudned with fine white diamond pave. Nice laid-out spread has measurements of carat[/b]." When i went to a ring store and showed them, they said to stay away that, the jeweler is probably trying to hide something but i dont know. It is .68ct SI clarity

What do you guys think? is that a bad sign if it says that. There is a GIA certificate

thank you

Hi nmoham1!

Welcome to CDi!!

It's not possible to answer your question without a whole lot more information- and actually seeing the diamond.
My suggestion is to check out any potential store or seller nine ways from Sunday.

there's so many ways this could be a bad deal- so caution is in order.

picture attached.


thoughts?

Sorry mnoham1.  You've been caught in the tiara loading zone.  The webmistress is working on the issue, but if you can open a Picassa or Photobucket account (photobucket is free), you can upload there and insert the pix into a post using the .img facility - 3rd in from the leftmost 'tag

oh, and hidey-ho, neighbor.  Welcome to the forum. 

If it doesn't pan out for this pup, David can find anything specific that you want. Sometimes it takes a while, like DJM's monster yellow baguette; but he'll do his absolute best to find the perfect stone for you.

Hello nmoham1, welcome to CDI.

Without seeing the diamond - not just one, but many photographs at the very least - it's impossible to say very much. It looks large and spready for a 0.68 radiant; but there are nice stones with these proportions. Here is one remarkably similar in size to the one you are looking at:



It doesn't have a single dead spot.

On the other hand, there are stones with those proportions that look like pieces of coloured glass. To some extent, price is a signal of how nice the stone is; how much are they asking?

ive been attempting to load a picture but it still says folder is full for some reason...

if any one can send me their email address, i could send pictures which the jeweler provided...

Here you go!

My impressions: One photo can actually create more questions than answers.- I'd want to see more pictures.
This goes for ring as well as diamond.
Ostensibly the ring itself looks ok- but if one looks closely, there are possible problem areas.

I agree, the diamond itself has a nice shade- but again, we need to see more photos for context.

How much light reflects back is also dependent upon how good the cut is (to reflect back the light). A video is a good way to see it in action.  One of the things that attracted me to Diamonds by Lauren was the videos of the diamonds in motion that David makes.   If you go to the DBL site you'll also see that some of the videos show the diamonds in different lighting situations. You can't beat it.