Diamond Ring of the Week – “Thin Seed”
Here’s our diamond ring of the week. It’s from the M. Geller collection at James Allen, and it features matching round diamonds in the band of the setting. This ring can be set with a round diamond or a princess cut diamond.
Check out the pictures:
Click here to see this ring at James Allen
To order this ring, just click the link above and select your ring size. Then, click the “Select This Ring” button and choose “Add a Diamond.” Then, choose your diamond (it can be round or princess cut). If you need help choosing the diamond, check out our diamond ring buying guides.
New Guide Up: Emerald Cut
Hey everyone, this is just a quick announcement:
Good news! I have just finished and added the newest guide to BuyDiamondRings.org:
Although it says engagement rings, this is also a guide to any kind of diamond ring with an emerald cut diamond. The guide will teach you how to choose a high-quality emerald cut diamond. From there, you just need to pick the setting that you want.
If you don’t know what kind of cut, color, clarity, depth, and table specifications make the best emerald cut diamonds, then you need to read this guide!
Also, it covers the best places to buy one of these diamond rings!
Beware of Local Store Diamond Ring Rip-Offs!
Hey everyone, just a quick post about a recent experience I had at a jewelry store in the mall. A few days ago, I went to the mall and I decided to go into one of the jewelry stores, just to check out some of the rings they had and to look at their prices.
I forget which store I was in, but I looked around for a couple minutes and didn’t see too much that was noteworthy. Then, I came across this one diamond ring.
It had a 1.5 carat diamond, I2 clarity (yeah, I2!, as in it has visible inclusions!), and the color was something like H or I, I think. I don’t think there was any information about the cut, or the symmetry, polish, or fluorescence. So, besides the fact that the diamond was pretty big, this ring didn’t have a very high quality diamond.
Guess what they were asking for this ring?
$8,999! Yes, $9k for a diamond with visible inclusions that’s not even colorless. And, there wasn’t any cut information, so it probably wasn’t a great cut, either.
You can easily find a 1.5 carat, SI2, ideal cut diamond on the internet for about $4,500. Much better deal – lower price for a better diamond! Of course, that’s without the setting, but even if you add a pretty good, platinum setting, that’ll add about $1,500. Which brings the total up to $6,000, a savings of $2,000 for a better ring!
What does this tell us?
You can usually find much better quality diamonds and diamond rings online! If you don’t know where to look, check out the stores that I have listed on the front page of this site: Buy Diamond Rings.
Big Valentine’s Day Sale on Diamond Rings
Here’s some good news: Diamond.com is having a huge sale for Valentine’s Day: 25% off and free shipping sitewide!
To take advantage of this great sale, click here to go to Diamond.com, shop for your ring, and remember to use the coupon code CVW25 at checkout.
Happy shopping!
Buy a Diamond Ring Online
“How To Select a Beautiful Diamond Ring and save $1000’s!”
Hello diamond ring seeker! Welcome to our site. Our goal is to help people buy diamond rings by providing information about choosing the best diamonds and pointing you in the direction of the best stores to buy from. Don’t worry, we’ve done all the searching online for diamond stores so that you don’t have to go crazy finding the best stores.
Here are the results of my searching: If you want to buy a diamond ring online, there is only one store that stands out above the rest:
- James Allen – My #1 recommendation. Use coupon code ring10 for 10% off your ring setting.
Why are they the best store for diamond rings and engagement rings? You can read my full review here, but here’s a quick summary:
They have great prices, great selection, real pictures of every diamond in stock, diamond grading reports for all their diamonds, and a great reputation (A+ rating from the BBB!). They constantly price their rings $1,000 or more below brick and mortar jewelry stores!
That’s pretty much it! Go ahead and look around James Allen… I promise you will find what you’re looking for!
If you need help choosing your diamond, see our diamond buying guides for recommendation on how to choose the best diamonds.
So, when you’re looking to buy diamond rings, you know that this site is the place to go first! Come back often because I will be updating this site with more sales and coupon codes.
Update: New Guide for Princess Cut Diamonds
Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that I just posted the latest guide from BuyDiamondRings.org.
This guide is for princess cut engagement rings. Do you know what specifications you should look for when you’re searching for a ring with a princess cut diamond? What about the best websites to look for these rings? Or, how about seeing some beautiful pre-set rings with a princess cut diamond? You’ll find it in my guide to princess cut rings.
So, after you’ve read my guide on princess cut rings and bought that gorgeous ring featuring a princess cut ring, what’s next? Well, look out for my guide to emerald cut diamond rings… it’ll be next!
Buy a Diamond Ring for 20% Off
Hey everyone… there’s a sale going on right now at Diamond.com for 20% off ALL jewelry in their store, except for sale items, watches, engagement rings, certified loose diamonds, and Create Your Own rings.
Here are some of my favorite diamond rings that are on sale right now:
Of course, there are many more diamond rings on sale, so click here to see them all.
Make sure you check back often for more information about buying diamond rings. I will be posting some more of my favorite diamond rings and more buying information.
How To Buy Diamond Rings – Other Diamond Grading Reports
In my last post, I went over the first diamond certification, the GIA report. In this post, I will go over the rest of the diamond reports that are important to know when you’re going to buy a diamond ring.
- IGI Report
The reports from IGI (or International Gemological Information) are similar to the reports from the GIA. It has information about a diamond’s cut, shape, color, weight, proportions, finish, and clarity. The grading scales are almost the same as the GIA. You can look back at the GIA information for more detail about these qualities.
- AGS report
The AGS (American Gem Society) report is similar to the reports from the GIA and IGI, but it’s a little more simple. It has basic information about the 4 C’s (cut, clarity, color, and carat) of a diamond. It doesn’t have as much detail as the other reports.
- EGL
An EGL (European Gemological Laboratory) report has a little more detail about the diamond proportion than the other reports. Besides that, it is very similar to the GIA and IGI reports.
So, next time you buy diamond rings, keep these reports in mind and make sure you check them.
How to Buy Diamond Ring – GIA Diamond Certificates
A diamond certificate, or a Diamond Grading Report, tells you more detailed information about a diamond’s unique attributes. This information is pretty important when you’re buying a diamond ring. You can usually find on the website when you choose a diamond for your ring.
There are a couple different diamond certifications, including GIA, AGS, IGI, and EGL. In this post, I will tell you what you need to know about the GIA certification, especially for when you buy diamond rings.
GIA stands for Gemological Institute Of America. They inspect diamonds and issue a Diamond Grading Report that gives an unbiased report about the diamond’s quality.
GIA reports give detailed information about the diamond’s:
- Weight in carats
- Measurements – the length, width, and depth of the diamond.
- Color – a scale from D-Z. D is the most colorless, and Z is the least colorless. The closer to D, the better.
- Fluorescence – The diamond’s fluorescence color when exposed to UV light, if any.
- Proportions
- Depth percentage
- Table percentage
- Clarity – the clarity grade (look back at my 4 C’s article for more information)
- Cut – the cut grade (again, look at the 4 C’s article for more info)
- Polish – a grade of the polish of the diamond’s finish
- Symmetry – a grade of the symmetry of the diamond’s finish
Here’s a sample GIA report:
Sample GIA report (click for larger image)
So, when you buy diamond rings, make sure you look at the Diamond Grading Report. It will give you additional information about the diamond’s quality, which you will want to know. Of course, when you buy a diamond ring online, this is invaluable information because you can’t see the diamond in person.
I will go over the IGI certification next. Look out for it!
Most Expensive Diamond Rings Ever
Ever wondered about the most expensive diamond rings in the world? I did some searching and found some of the very best and finest diamonds and diamond rings ever.
THE most expensive diamond ring is the Chopard Blue Diamond Ring. It’s a 9-carat blue diamond(very, very rare!), with diamond shoulders, set in 18-carat white gold, worth $16.26 million!
Here are some more super-expensive blue diamonds:
-A 7.03-carat blue diamond sold for $9.5 million in May 2009 at a Sotheby’s auction in Geneva. This diamond was cut from a 26.58-carat diamond found in South Africa.
-A 6.04-carat blue diamond sold for $7.9 million at Sotheby’s in October 2007 in Hong Kong.
-Other blue diamonds have sold for $4.7 and $4.9 at other Sotheby’s auctions.
-The Hancock Red is a .95 carat red diamond that sold for $880,000 back in 1987 for a then-record $926,000 per carat.
-The Hope Diamond is a famous 45.52 carat blue diamond with a $300-350 million estimated value! It has been owned by many different people throughout history.
-Recently, the Elizabeth Collection of House of Taylor Jewelry had a $1.3 million diamond ring. The ring had a 5.98-carat oval cut diamond in the center, and 3.96 carats worth of round diamonds around it.
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