Here are the steps you will follow in order to Evaluate, Examine, Select & Care Gemstones. You probably don’t know yet what you are looking for and what you are not looking for. Don’t worry, just follow me through this: Read the rest of this entry »

When you are looking for a worthwhile purchase in gemstones and jewelry, take it as a rule of thumb that the ignorant and uninformed buyer will eventually be taken to the cleaners. So the only way to take the gamble out of the gemstones and jewelry purchase is to familiarize yourself – and gain knowledge of gemstones and experience in doing so. These are the only two things that count – money and reputation follow. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a good source of cheap diamonds, by which I mean cheap diamonds and cheap gemstones below or near dump value. Read the rest of this entry »

Seven days of the week, 365 days of the year, local newspaper carries classified ads, which, among other things, are with reference to sale of jewelry. Some of the people who place these ads in the Classifieds can be classified as totally desperate guys who will take almost anything that sounds reasonable (to them), while the others are those who are not ready to be the least bit reasonable, who think they have, like, forever to sell their stuff and will not take a dime less than what they think is the price they should get. However, the twist in the tale is that Read the rest of this entry »

It can never be emphasized enough how important it is to guard your diamonds, gemstones and jewelry possessions against any kind of fraudulent practices in jewelry business. And it is also true in jewelry business or in any business for that matter, that there can be countless number of ways to cheat a person. Cheating is an art in itself, and so is the act of preventing oneself from being cheated. Read the rest of this entry »