I knew that there was no secondary market for diamonds. The only place I'm "going" is that I knew what I was going to get.
I would gladly have paid the same price for an artificial sapphire in a platinum setting, with similar certifications. But first of all, I couldn't find anywhere that would sell me artificial sapphires in a precious metal setting. Secondly, I couldn't find anywhere that even described with some level of accuracy anything about the sapphires (artificial or not)-- exactly what color? Exactly what size / cut? Exactly what level of clarity? Just fuzzy descriptions about how beautiful the stone is. Sorry, not going to drop $1000 on your assertion that this blue rock is "gorgeous".
The certification said the stone was X size, Y clarity, Z color, and had a really high fluorescence; and what I got was a stone of X size, Y clarity, Z color, and a high fluorescence. It may be a racket, but it's a well-oiled one.
I would gladly have paid the same price for an artificial sapphire in a platinum setting, with similar certifications. But first of all, I couldn't find anywhere that would sell me artificial sapphires in a precious metal setting. Secondly, I couldn't find anywhere that even described with some level of accuracy anything about the sapphires (artificial or not)-- exactly what color? Exactly what size / cut? Exactly what level of clarity? Just fuzzy descriptions about how beautiful the stone is. Sorry, not going to drop $1000 on your assertion that this blue rock is "gorgeous".
The certification said the stone was X size, Y clarity, Z color, and had a really high fluorescence; and what I got was a stone of X size, Y clarity, Z color, and a high fluorescence. It may be a racket, but it's a well-oiled one.