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Selling your jewelry is not one of the easiest tasks. To give you some guidance please take some time to understand diamond pricing.

Here's some explanation to outline pricing in diamonds:

Wholesale price:
Because of the numerous levels of distribution, there is rarely ever a single wholesale price. Most often a range of wholesale prices exist as a diamond is prepared for marketing and travels through the pipeline of distribution to the final consumer. Sales taxes are usually not applicable to these prices.

Retail Diamond Market:
The position in the marketplace composed of parties that sell to the end users. Buyers in this market purchase for their personal use with no intention of reselling in the future for profit.

Retail Diamond Price:
Ever since the word retail became synonymous with "price gouging" in the 1940s, many retailers have actively distanced themselves from the title of "retailer." In fact, many retailers would like you to believe they are wholesalers and exaggerate this market position to suggest are getting a better value. It usually represents a markup of 2 - 3 times the manufacturer's cost .

Diamond Valuation
Before establishing the value of a diamond we would like to help you consider the following:

- The facet proportions, length/width ratios, shape outline, the amount of weight that does not contribute to beauty.

- The influence of the fluorescence on a diamond's transparency.

- The integrity of the laboratory that issued the grading report

- The level of risk relating to inventory the cutters are currently holding and market is absorbing.

- The date of grading report.

- The current price and availability of rough.

- The popularity of the shape of the diamond.

When selling your diamond to Diamond World you can either choose to:
- Place the diamond in commission and let us find the best deal on the Antwerp Diamond Market within 2-3 months
- Sell your diamond 10% (our commission) below the seller's diamond market price.

To protect you and ourselfs we would need a recent certificate (<3 years) from one of the respected and acknowledged grading organisations like Diamond High Council (HRD) or the International Gemmological Institute (IGI).