LOL, now I know why blue stone trading had so many specials for jewelers
Every time they get a lot in I get an email, and I assume everyone else on there list does too. They are called melle specials
I of course use the better diamonds I get for customers jobs. repair work and replacement,
The total crap I send off to a wholesaler who in turn sells them off to who knows where...zales maybe, most of there stuff is spit.
If you have diamonds and have enough to sort them and grade them by color and clarity and size you have a product that can bring a much better premium.
When I sell of the spit diamonds (they look like spit) I take the $25 to $50 per carat and am happy to get rid of it.
Even the junk crap POS diamonds are still worth 5 times there weight in gold even at todays gold prices.
Considering you most likely get them for the cost of gold from jewelry they are defiantly worth hanging on to to dump later.
Eventually they will end up in some other horrible 10k wall mart style jewelry and someone will love them.
The better stuff that is Si has a market, be happy if you get $100 pc on them. We generally buy them for about $350 for the small stuff
The good stuff is where cash is to be had. but like anything valuable its harder to come across. most people who can afford the Good VS stones and designer goods dont end up having to pawn off or recycle then.
Otherwise they trade them in. I do get some deals simply because "It Came from HIM! I'll take anything!" but that does not happen often.
If you get VS stones of good color, you can ask a premium. I pay anywhere from $600 to $900 per carat for VS goods of good color, say E-F color.
There is a night and day difference between the good stuff and the junk.
Also, if you plan on selling them, clean them!
An ultra sonic cleaner does wonders, The old hand lotion and soap scum should be removed, Ammonia works wonders for this, Also lye to get all that nasty lotion and dead skin of them.
Oil from your skin will kill the effect of a diamond as well. A trick a slimy scumbag of a dealer once showed me was to take a diamond a customer was looking to sell and wipe your thumb on your forehead or nose to get some facial oil and dirt, then rub it on top of the diamond.
"Look, see, its not as pretty as the onces we have in the case, we have to offer you less for it."
sick...absolutely sick. Anytime one slimy jeweler gets busted sales go down for hundreds of honest ones and it always makes headlines.
Anyway clean and sort them. A jeweler does not have time to do that. thats why most sorting is done by 10 year olds in India for 10 cents an hour for big lots.
If you have only a few stones and can separate out the junk, you can ask for a much better price and get a better offer. however it is known that CZs can be in the mix. A quick test to pull CZs if you do not have a diamond tester is to do this.
Draw a line with a pen on a piece of white paper.
Take a pair of tweezers and with the top of the diamond facing down and move it over the line.
If you can see the line though the bottom of the stone(read though it) or it magnifies it, its either a sapphire or a CZ or some other synthetic.
If you can not read though the stone because a diamond refracts the light so much. Its a Diamond.
Quick, fast, efficient and cheap to do.
If the diamond does not have a lot of sparkle, its junk.