Summary:This article offers tips on how to avoid most common diamond cheats.
When we buy any product any where, there are always trickes to be fooled with, including jewelry, there are always major cheats and minor ones which always gets improved through the time, The only reason the buyer gets fooled cause, is the really limited data he got about the product or in our case about the diamond.
When it comes to diamonds, there are numerous scams to avoid. Most scams are minor, but there are some major ones that come up from time to time concerning the buying and selling of diamonds. Scams occur simply because most people who buy diamonds – for whatever reasons – don’t know that much about diamonds. Therefore, they are easily fooled.
Jewelry stores always shows their jewelry in bright and genteel light, This bright light makes the jewelry shine in an attractive way, always ask to have a look at the jewelry in different light conditions epically in dark light, the White-Blue jewelry looks really unique but in face it has less quality, even the jeweler will try to make you feel that your buying some thing epical, but in face your buying something really poor.
A common scam that most jewelry stores participate in is the Carat Total Weight scam. The tag on the piece of jewelry, usually a ring, only states the total carat weight of all diamonds in the piece, instead of listing the total weights separately for each diamond. This leads consumers to believe that the main diamond in the piece is actually bigger than it is. Ask what the total carat weight of the center stone is. Also beware of fractions. Jewelry stores are allowed to round off diamond weights. This means that if the jeweler tells you that it is a ¾ carat diamond, it is probably between ½ and ¾ carat – but closer to ¾.
Some truly unscrupulous jewelers target those who want appraisals on diamonds that were given to them as gifts or that were purchased elsewhere. They will try to tell you that the diamond is worthless, or worth less than it actually is worth – and offer to take it off your hands or trade it for a much better diamond, along with the cash to make up the difference. This is called low balling. Get a second, third, and even a forth opinion before taking any action.
Jewelry stores often run ‘fluorescence’ scams to varying degrees. Referring to a diamond as a blue-white diamond is such a scam. A blue-white diamond sounds very unique and special, but in fact, this type of diamond is of lesser quality – even though the jeweler will try to make you think you are getting something special. Jewelry stores also like to show their diamonds in bright lights. Lights make diamonds shine. Ask to see the diamond in a different, darker type of lighting as well.
Another common dirty trick is to switch the diamond you have chosen and paid for with one of lesser quality and value when you leave it to be set in a piece of jewelry, or leave a diamond ring to be sized. The only way to avoid this is to do business with one trustworthy jeweler. Avoid the stores that you didn’t deal with before, actually it will not be trusted as the ones you are always dealing with.
There are so many other ways of cheating when you buy jewelry, but just try to focus as much as you can on the jewelry you are buying, and never be shy to ask about any thing that you don’t know about the jewelry you are buying.
