Diamonds are mostly marketing hype but if you want to get one cheap it’s not as hard as you might think. However, if you want to have a honeymoon after the wedding, you’ll want to save some money on the engagement ring. To get a good deal you can spend many hours researching retailers online, visiting jewelry stores in your neighborhood or hoping to find a once-in-a-lifetime deal at a pawn shop. It isn’t easy, to be sure.
Online there are, of course, many thousands of diamond merchants.. From the most expensive to the cheapest, they are all selling essentially the same thing: diamonds mined from the earth set in a precious metal. There is no difference between one diamond and the next except its rating in the Four C’s. Only experts with a magnifying glass are likely to find a difference between a $15,000 Blue Nile diamond and a $3,000 diamond from Freddy Diamonds. So I suppose it just matters what matters most to you there are other cheap sellers like Jareds, and Zales a bit more but if you want to romance your stone and pay a couple of extra thousand to kiss it you can do that in the store some people like that stuff.
Your friends and co-workers almost certainly won’t know the difference if you buy a cheap diamond and considering all diamonds have little to no resale value why not buy a cheap diamond?. People basically only notice the size of the stone and how much it sparkles (determined by cut). The color is important but it does not have to be perfect. Anything with even slight color is still perfectly acceptable and won’t be noticeable in many lighting conditions. The clarity is last on the list of things to worry about, as it can only be determined under magnification.
We say its best to do yourself a favor and go with cheap diamonds because the high end places like Tiffany, and the middle range places like Bluenile are basically all selling the same stuff even the little guys like Freddy Diamonds. The only thing an expensive ring gets you is the ability to brag about how much you paid for it.
