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Consumer Confusion with Diamond Grading Certificates

Consumers in search of diamonds will frequently give equal weight to diamond grading certificates, and use them as the basis for price comparison shopping. Since grading reports have a similar look and apparently have the same information, this seems logical to them.  However, this “Buying the Certificate” can often lead the customer to a disastrous result.

Buying the Certificate—which diamond-grading certificate is the best? is a case history showing the difference in value between a diamond graded by EGL as compared to a diamond with the same grades, but graded by GIA.  A qualified grader thought the stone graded by EGL as clarity of SI1, color of F, should have been graded clarity of SI2, color of H.  An analysis of the actual price paid for this diamond was equivalent to the price of a stone of the same weight, graded SI2 H by GIA.

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