How to Buy a Diamond: Insider Secrets for Getting Your Money's Worth - Softcover

Cuellar, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492667331 ISBN 13: 9781492667339

Publisher: Sourcebooks, 2018

Synopsis

Buying a diamond can be one of the most important and intimidating purchases you ever make. Whether you're getting engaged or buying for an anniversary, investment or "just because," How to Buy a Diamond will take the pressure and uncertainty out of getting the best diamond for your money.

Newly revised and updated, How to Buy a Diamond is the only book on the market to include wholesalers' secret pricing charts that you, the public, never get to see! The charts are broken down by carat, clarity, and color ―including the various types of color within each color grade.

This eighth edition includes:

• Matching your funds with the perfect diamond
• The four Cs explained: clarity, color, cut and carat size
• Ring styles and settings
• Grade bumping: what it is and how to spot it
• Picking the right jeweler
• Jewelers' tricks of the trade
• Wholesaler' secret pricing charts!

Praise for How to Buy a Diamond:

"Finally, one of the top diamond experts breaks the silence and demystifies the world of diamonds for regular folk like you and me." ―Gregory J.P. Godek, author of 1001 Ways to Be Romantic

"Whenever anybody asks me about buying a diamond, I give them this book." ―Rob Bates, National Jeweler

About this title

About the Author:

Fred Cuellar is founder and president of Diamond Cutters International and is known as one of the world's top diamond experts. Cuellar is accredited in diamonds by the Gemological Institute of America. Cuellar is the official diamond expert for MSNBC, Men's Health, AOL's theknot.com and The Wedding Network, and Icon magazine. He has been featured and discussed on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC's Today Show, CBS Morning News, CNN, ESPN, the Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, US Weekly, In Style as well as over 100 other news and talk shows. He lives in Houston, Texas.

Review:

"Whenever anybody asks me about buying a diamond, I give them this book. It's filled with a lot of common sense, practical advice. Diamond buying can be difficult. This book can help." - Rob Bates, Editor, National Jeweler magazine

"This book helps make dreams come true." - Houston Chronicle

"Get a diamond education!" - New Man Promise Keepers

"Educate yourself before you make the big purchase." - Money's Worth

"Inside information on purchasing a diamond." - Library Journal

"If diamond buying figures into your future...How to Buy a Diamond...gets you your money's worth." - Tribune Media Services

"Expert advice for diamond buyers." - Tribune Review

"Spending even thirty minutes with How to Buy a Diamond can save anyone time, aggravation, and hard-earned money." - Black Elegance

"A cut above." - Dallas Morning News

"Takes the intimidation out of diamond shopping." - Mobile Register

About this edition

• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1492667331
• ISBN 13: 9781492667339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368