{"id":33,"date":"2007-05-31T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T06:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondsandopals.com\/blog\/our-value-proposition\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T07:45:34","slug":"our-value-proposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/our-value-proposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Value Proposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our principles is to sell at the lowest price by keeping our costs low.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That said, although we consistently offer the cheapest prices in Australia for premium cut diamonds, we do most of our business online, and thus, offer a vastly different experience from a retail store.<\/p>\n<p>In a June 2005 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diamonds.net\/news\/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=12422\">article<\/a>, Martin Rapaport says &#8220;<span id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolderMainContent_lblBody\">Retailers that flip diamonds the way McDonalds flips hamburgers better be offering a great price because there is no other reason for anyone to buy from them.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, there are dealers who offer little in the way of added value, however, we believe our value proposition is the best in Australia because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We offer two types of diamonds: our <em>Signature Series <\/em>and our <em>International Selection<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>We offer six months interest free financing.<\/li>\n<li>We take credit cards at no extra charge, or offer a 0.5% cash discount.<\/li>\n<li>We analyse each diamond, giving you full disclosure via microscopic photos, videos, Ideal-Scope and AGS ASET images and proportion and OGI Firetrace output.<\/li>\n<li>We offer free, insured shipping anywhere within Australia and New Zealand.<\/li>\n<li>We usually don&#8217;t ask for full payment for our international selection upfront.<\/li>\n<li>You can come to our office in Perth city, have a coffee or soft drink, or for larger diamonds, we can come to you.<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t just sell loose diamonds. We can also design and make engagement rings, earrings or pendants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Therefore, whilst we offer a different experience from a retail store with pre-set diamonds, it is important to realise that our value proposition varies greatly from a retail store, whilst goes that extra level up from those that &#8220;flip diamonds&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our principles is to sell at the lowest price by keeping our costs low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taking-care-of-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}