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LAS VEGAS, NV, July 2 found at PRNewswire
American Gem Society Laboratories A Diamond Is Forever noticed the
women's fine jewelry self purchase trend and launched the "Right Hand
Ring" marketing campaign.
Now, women are buying fine jewelry to mark special occasions, to remember a
special place, to celebrate a promotion, or commemorate a special bond with a
family member.
What: Audio Podcast of Cathy Calhoun, representative of The American Gem
Society Laboratories and owner of Calhoun Jewelers in Royersford, Pennsylvania.
Cathy is a Certified Gemologist Appraiser and has appeared on such programs as,
Antiques Roadshow, Good Morning America, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,
and HGTV's If Walls Could Talk. When: The Podcast is available for immediate
download
Where: http://feeds.feedburner.com/agslabs
About: The American Gem Society Laboratory is one of the foremost leading
diamond grading laboratories in the world. The American Gem Society Laboratory
promotes the highest professional standards of ethics, education, and service
and provides the most thorough and consistent diamond grading reports in the
industry.
Diamonds just got more authentic
SURAT 21 Jul, 2007 found at economictimes.indiatimes.com
Diamond buying may become as easy as buying a soap or a shampoo. Any doubts
about its authenticity or price? All queries are just a click away. Surely, a
bad news for family jewellers capitalising on the trust factor.
The Indian Diamond Institute (IDI)
has started an on-line service for verifying the diamond grading documents.
Grading documents are the certification which the consumers get when they buy
the precious stones from the jewellers. The new feature will allow consumers
from across the country to validate the diamonds they have purchased are
well-graded by the laboratories.
The exercise would also put pressure on jewellers as well as diamond brands that
have stormed the retail market to ensure that their data conforms to
international standards which the institute intends to follow.
The institute was inspired by a similar move by the American Gem Society (AGS).
The AGS has been providing similar services to validate the grading reports from
the last couple of years in the US.
“For a consumer, diamond grading report means a stamp of authenticity. But
what if the laboratories grading the diamonds are inconsistent in their work.
Here is where the IDI would step in to verify the diamond grading report,”
said IDI’s executive director KK Sharma.
Mr Sharma said consumers from across the country and abroad can access the new
facility from the institute’s website www.diamondinstitute.net. All the
consumers need to do is enter the relevant data from the diamond grading report
which they obtain after making the purchase. The institute will reverted an
authentic grading analysis of the diamonds. The consumers could match the IDI
analysis report with the diamond grading report that they have.
According to Mr Sharma, diamond grading laboratories are not always consistent
in giving accurate grading reports. IDI’s aim is consumer protection and that
the institute is always looking for new ways to increase consumer confidence, he
said.
Says Chandrakant Sanghavi, regional chairman of Gems and Jewellery Export
Promotion Council (GJEPC), “Consumer confidence is very important in today’s
competitive age. When consumers are spending so much amount on the diamonds they
are ought to be protected.”
Even the jewellers in the city believe that the new service will restore
consumer confidence. Says Vinay Patel of Adorn Jewellers: “Consumers should
get a fair chance to verify the diamond grading documents. The new service will
help the consumers.”
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