{"id":14409,"date":"2022-11-19T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T11:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/?p=14409"},"modified":"2022-11-19T10:07:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T15:07:32","slug":"do-you-sell-gia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/do-you-sell-gia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;DO YOU SELL GIA?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Do-You-Sell-GIA-Certified-Diamonds.gif\" alt=\"Do You Sell GIA Certified Diamonds?\" title=\"Do You Sell GIA Certified Diamonds?\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14410\" \/><\/div>\n<h2>You want to hear something funny?<\/h2>\n<p>\nGIA (<strong>The Gemological Institute of America<\/strong>), are the leaders when it comes to <strong>diamond grading<\/strong>, technology, and <strong>setting standards<\/strong> in the industry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><h2>That&#8217;s not the funny part.<\/h2>\n<p>\nNor is it the fact that <strong>GIA wrote the 4C&#8217;s!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\nWhat&#8217;s funny is the fact that<strong> only about half of the jewelers across the country sell GIA!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nOnly half, but if you asked them who the best was, <strong>they&#8217;d still say GIA hands down!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>So what does that show you?<\/h2>\n<p>\nThat it <strong>takes too long<\/strong> to get it GIA certified? That it <strong>costs too much?<\/strong> That they don&#8217;t like the <strong>strict quality control?<\/strong> That they&#8217;d rather have a cheaper company do the report so the grades are <strong>more lax and lenient???<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nLax grades equals &#8220;<strong>rounded up<\/strong>&#8221; quality, i.e. an <strong>I1 is then called an SI2<\/strong>&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><h2>Which means more money for the jeweler!<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>It&#8217;s true<\/strong>. It happens all the time.<\/p>\n<p><h2>If it were me&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>If I were buying <\/strong>a loose certified diamond, <strong>especially for an engagement ring<\/strong>, I would never trust anyone else other than <strong>GIA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s how much I rely on them and <strong>admire them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd if <em><strong>you <\/strong><\/em>truly want the best report that you could ever get on a diamond, <strong>you should purchase GIA too!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd there&#8217;s <strong>one very simple way<\/strong> to determine <strong>where to buy your stone<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nTo know what stores sell which certs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><h2>JUST ASK!<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>Call them up<\/strong>, or <strong>walk into their store<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Ask them pointblank:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>&#8220;Do you sell GIA certified diamonds?&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>\nIf they <strong>hesitate<\/strong>, or say &#8220;<strong>NO, but we do sell&#8230;<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Then just turn away<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><h2>End of story!<\/h2>\n<p>\nBecause if it&#8217;s not GIA, it&#8217;s <strong>not very trustworthy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhich means, it&#8217;s really not<strong> worth your time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Because other certificates are <strong>NOT the same!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nThey&#8217;re not graded the same, they&#8217;re not <strong>accurate<\/strong>, some have <strong>made-up qualities<\/strong> that GIA doesn&#8217;t even recognize. <\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Which really means:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>You&#8217;re overpaying!<\/h2>\n<p>\nSo <strong>one sentence<\/strong> could eliminate a lot of <strong>heart-aches<\/strong> and <strong>head-aches<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Just ask: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>&#8220;Do you sell GIA certified diamonds?&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s what I&#8217;d want to know.<\/p>\n<p>For I don&#8217;t care about <strong>IGI<\/strong>&#8230; I don&#8217;t care about <strong>EGL<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><h2>I only want GIA!<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>That&#8217;s a diamond report I trust<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesallen.com\/loose-diamonds\/round-cut\/?CaratFrom=1.00&#038;CaratTo=15.00&#038;Color=F,E,D&#038;Clarity=VS2,VS1,VVS2,VVS1,IF&#038;Cut=Ideal,Excellent,TrueHearts&#038;PriceFrom=200&#038;PriceTo=999000&#038;Sort=Price,%20DefaultOrder&#038;ViewsOptions=Images&#038;advancedParameter=Sort&#038;showAdvanced=show&#038;Polish=EX,ID&#038;Symmetry=EX,ID&#038;Lab=GIA&#038;Flour=None,Negligible&#038;DepthFrom=45.0&#038;DepthTo=80.0&#038;TableFrom=50.0&#038;TableTo=83.0\">Get your GIA Certified Diamonds HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Cheers! :)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>You want to hear something funny? GIA (The Gemological Institute of America), are the leaders when it comes to diamond grading, technology, and setting standards in the industry&#8230; That&#8217;s not the funny part. Nor is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/do-you-sell-gia\/\" title=\"&#8220;DO YOU SELL GIA?&#8221;\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,3,10],"tags":[539,538,540,488,47,137],"class_list":["post-14409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-certification","category-diamond-guide","category-diamonds","category-engagement","tag-best-certificate","tag-certified-diamonds","tag-certified-stones","tag-diamond-quality","tag-diamonds","tag-gia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}