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 Post subject: Amazing price netted for GIA refractometer
PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:50 pm 
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/GIA-Duplex-II-G ... 7675.l2557


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 Post subject: Re: Amazing price netted for GIA refractometer
PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:21 pm 
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Wow. How much would that suite have been new?


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GIA refractometers are $925 new
I don't remember the exact price on the light source but they were something like $300. A lot of money for a tungsten lamp and an interference filter. Of course that being a quality made in USA item , they don't have it anymore. They now sell a yellow LED light source for $98.
The hand spectroscope was three or four hundred dollars. I think it's a Meiji which GIA used to sell.
But not worth more than an OPL at about $100. GIA now sells something that looks like an OPL for $115.

The stuff looks pretty new and is not too delicate so it probably was an OK buy.
But pretty high price paid IMHO.


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