We’re a marketplace that connects you to a seller that will sell you the diamond. We can assist with payment and offer Rare Carat Guarantee, or you can buy from them directly.

We want you to have absolute peace of mind. For select sellers, we offer Rare Carat Guarantee when you buy on RareCarat.com. Also it’s worth mentioning that, vendors must maintain great reviews and a 30-day return policy, and we remove any vendor who does not continue to meet our high standards.

Like Amazon or Etsy, we are a marketplace where sellers list their inventory. We vet thoroughly to find the best sellers. Sellers price as competitively as they can, especially since they know they are being transparently compared to other sellers. Our deal scores, Rare Carat Reports, and gemologist reviews do not consider which seller is selling the stone. We don’t even discriminate against sellers that are not listed on Rare Carat for our report - we only look at the diamond info. Our gemologists are all professionals (with graduate degrees in the field from the Gemological Institute of America) who can provide an unbiased independent opinion. Our gemologists have honestly reviewed stones from more than a hundred different local and online sellers, and always given buyers a thumbs up when the stones look good, and when it looks bad. We work hard to equip consumers with the tools they need - whether it's smart AI tools to analyze price and quality, or free help from a human gemologist!

Well, yes, that is ideal (no pun intended).

Our site lets you search for diamonds sold online that have images and video. In addition, we’re working to use machine vision to “see” beyond the clarity grade and recommend your best options.

Remember, you have a while (usually 30 days) to send it back and get your money back. What we suggest is finding a local appraiser and seeing if you got what you think you got. If not, send it back. You’ll need an appraisal to insure it, in any case.

It happens very often, and it’s nothing to be alarmed about. The sellers own very little inventory; suppliers give permission to many sellers to list their inventory, and whoever sells it calls them up to order it and have it sent to you.

This is on our product roadmap, but we don’t search fancy colored stones at the moment. Just your standard white diamonds. Do lean on our gemologists to advise you on these stones, no matter where they are selling. Just message us, bottom right.

Yep, we search them too 🙂 Search across lab grown diamond sellers here.

All the sellers on our platform have conflict free policies. But we’re trying to take things further with the help of Everledger. See our blog post on this.

Yes, we have our anonymous hinting ways, which we will disclose over chat 😉 Just message us, bottom right.

Yes. Across the board: in marketing, data science, engineering, and business development. Send your resume along to team@rarecarat.com

Rare Carat was profiled in the "The Secret to Buying the Perfect Diamond" by the New York Times and was featured in Forbes. After helping millions of users find the best deal on their diamond engagement ring, over two thousand users have left five-star reviews on public review forums like Google and TrustPilot.

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