Comments on: Whiteflash Makes Holiday Diamond Buying More Comforatble with Trade-Up Program http://enewschannels.com/2007/11/28/enc2295_021119.php Business, Entertainment and Technology News Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:56:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Craig http://enewschannels.com/2007/11/28/enc2295_021119.php#comment-54053 Craig Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:42:28 +0000 http://enewschannels.com/2007/11/28/enc2295_021119.php#comment-54053 Bogus Lab Certificates Certificates from non-existent “sound-alike” labs like Auscert Don’t be fooled by official-looking certificates from local “certified gemologist” gem labs. They are probably owned by the store and exaggerate the grades to make the prices look good. Don’t accept certificates from labs with familiar-sounding names like “Gemological Institutions of America” (instead of Gemological Institute of America), or American Gemological Services (instead of American Gemological Society). If it is not from the true GIA, AGS or EGL gem labs as described on other pages of our site, don’t believe it. These respected institutions have spent millions of dollars toward advanced equipment and staff training to produce the most reliable and consistent (though not totally infallible) grading reports. Solution: Ask any dealer who shows certificates from other labs if he has any authentic certificates from the big labs. If not, leave the store. Smaller labs can do good work, but you have no way to know if they are qualified, legitimate and unbiased. I would like to stress there are no “reputable” suppliers in Australia using these Bogus Lab Certificates. Quote Anthony Bates iowner of Auscert andTiche a jewellerty store “AUSCERT was built on. GIA’s ’stumble from grace’ and the HRD reshuffle after the head people and the Mayor of Antwerp resigned over the last Christmas holidays only served to confirm what we had been saying from the beginning. I agree Australia needs to stop ‘cow licking’ the larger overseas Laboratories. A certificate should be free from the shackles of other certificates’ cut grading parameters (although I firmly believe that they must abide by CIBJO regulations for colour, clarity and carat weight). Unfortunately, IDC regulated labs have to follow HRD cut grade parameters and in doing so lose any independent status they wish to appear to have.” Bogus Lab Certificates
Certificates from non-existent “sound-alike” labs like Auscert
Don’t be fooled by official-looking certificates from local “certified gemologist” gem labs. They are probably owned by the store and exaggerate the grades to make the prices look good. Don’t accept certificates from labs with familiar-sounding names like “Gemological Institutions of America” (instead of Gemological Institute of America), or American Gemological Services (instead of American Gemological Society). If it is not from the true GIA, AGS or EGL gem labs as described on other pages of our site, don’t believe it. These respected institutions have spent millions of dollars toward advanced equipment and staff training to produce the most reliable and consistent (though not totally infallible) grading reports.
Solution: Ask any dealer who shows certificates from other labs if he has any authentic certificates from the big labs. If not, leave the store. Smaller labs can do good work, but you have no way to know if they are qualified, legitimate and unbiased.

I would like to stress there are no “reputable” suppliers in Australia using these Bogus Lab Certificates.
Quote Anthony Bates iowner of Auscert andTiche a jewellerty store “AUSCERT was built on. GIA’s ’stumble from grace’ and the HRD reshuffle after the head people and the Mayor of Antwerp resigned over the last Christmas holidays only served to confirm what we had been saying from the beginning. I agree Australia needs to stop ‘cow licking’ the larger overseas Laboratories. A certificate should be free from the shackles of other certificates’ cut grading parameters (although I firmly believe that they must abide by CIBJO regulations for colour, clarity and carat weight). Unfortunately, IDC regulated labs have to follow HRD cut grade parameters and in doing so lose any independent status they wish to appear to have.”

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