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PandaPancake

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well if you were local to charlotte, Diamonds Direct.  I know of two other guys who looked everywhere, even NY with the diamond brokers up there, and still got a better deal at DD. I got a setting for my wife's engagement ring, and then later our wedding bands there.  

 

And yes, the markup and salesmanship is worse than buying a car and is a pain in the ass. 

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Not that it is feasible for everyone but for my wife's ring I flew to the diamond district shopped around and then met with a wholesaler that my aunt knew. Bought the diamond from him. He set it and mailed it to me.

 

For my wife's diamond earrings (10th aniversary) I went through a buyer in NYC and got diamond studs 1ct each for a little under $5k. They were listing at $9k on bule nile. Granted this was another friend of the family and probably took no profit.

 

And I did have each appraised to make sure I wasn't getting hosed.

 

If you have any connections at all I would look into it.

 

The markup on diamonds is absurd. If you can avoid a big box stores in any way I would.

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