Important Points
- Rapaport Intelligence turns real diamond trading data into pricing and inventory decisions through MarketIQ, SellerIQ, and ListingIQ.
- The Rapaport Diamond Price List remains the trade’s benchmark for pricing and negotiating every deal.
- The Rapaport Trade Platform connects dealers to 1.5 million verified natural diamond listings, with Chats & Trades, Trade Screen, and Buy Requests built in to go from listing to pricing to closing deals faster.
- Rapaport Auctions turns diamonds, melee, and stuck inventory into cash fast, through a global network of buyers.
Finding the right buyer and closing the sale on fair terms is often the hardest part of running a diamond business. For nearly five decades, Rapaport has helped diamond dealers solve exactly that, and a recent rebrand has now brought those capabilities under one connected ecosystem: intelligence, pricing, trading, and auctions, built to connect a dealer to real buyers and get their stones sold faster and for maximum profit.
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Rapaport Intelligence
Pricing and inventory calls are hard to make with confidence when a dealer can’t see where the market is actually heading. Rapaport Intelligence closes that gap: the monthly Rapaport Intelligence Report tracks price movement, supply, demand, and liquidity across major markets such as the United States, India, Dubai, and Hong Kong, so a dealer knows what’s coming before a counterparty names a price.
Without real-time visibility into the Rapaport Diamond Price List, pricing a stone is a guessing game. MarketIQ gives dealers the same live view Rapaport’s own pricing team uses to create every Rapaport Diamond Price List, so every quote is backed by data instead of a hunch.
When inventory sits without explanation, a dealer is left guessing what buyers actually want. SellerIQ shows exactly how diamond buyers are engaging with specific listings, so a dealer knows what to reprice, promote, or leave alone.
Aging inventory is easy to miss until it’s already a problem. ListingIQ flags listings before they go stale and shows whether each stone is priced higher, lower, or in line with comparable diamonds, so a dealer can adjust with confidence and keep inventory moving instead of sitting.
The Rapaport Diamond Price List
Negotiating a price is hard when the buyer and seller aren’t starting from the same baseline. Established in 1978, the Rapaport Diamond Price List is the industry’s oldest and most trusted benchmark; most diamonds trade ten to thirty percent below it, and the Diamond Price Calculator applies that discount instantly, so both sides negotiate from common ground instead of talking past each other.
Rapaport Trade
Finding a legitimate buyer for a diamond, and getting a stone in front of them, is often the hardest part of a sale. Rapaport Trade, the trading software built for the diamond industry, puts a dealer’s inventory in front of thousands of verified members in over 100 countries with no commissions, listing fees, or transaction fees standing in the way.
Negotiations that bounce between email, messaging apps, and phone calls lose momentum, and details get lost along the way. Chats & Trades, Rapaport Trade’s built-in messaging software, keeps every conversation, shared stone, certificate, and translation in one place and on one platform, so a dealer can go from first message to closed trade without losing the thread.
It’s hard to know if a quote is fair without seeing what comparable stones are actually trading at. Trade Screen is a real-time pricing grid of best and average asking prices by category, so a dealer can confirm any quote is competitive before agreeing to it.
Rather than cold-calling contacts hoping someone needs what’s in stock, a dealer can rely on Buy Requests: a standing order where a buyer posts exactly what they need, and matching inventory is surfaced automatically. Demand comes looking for a seller instead of the other way around.
Rapaport Auctions
Some inventory won’t move through normal trading channels, and holding onto it ties up cash a dealer needs elsewhere. Rapaport Auctions, the world’s largest recycler of polished diamonds, runs monthly auctions from several trading centers worldwide with no reserve price required, converting that inventory into cash on a set timeline.
- Diamonds: A single stone that isn’t finding a buyer through regular channels still needs a fast, credible exit. Single-stone auctions cover certified and uncertified diamonds, round and fancy cuts, from 0.30 carats to five carats and above.
- Melee: Small, uncertified stones are easy to accumulate and hard to place one at a time. Melee auctions clear a whole parcel in a single transaction, the fastest way to convert a backlog of small goods into cash.
- International network: A backlog can simply outstrip local demand. Trading centers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia put a dealer’s inventory in front of a genuinely global pool of bidders.
- Fast Liquidity for Moving Stuck Inventory: Stuck inventory usually forces a choice between a slow sale and a discounted fire sale. Bidders inspect and bid, sellers decide within one business day, and payment executes on approval, turning aged inventory into cash fast, without the fire-sale discount.
Together, these software tools give a dealer everything needed to price with confidence, sell to trusted buyers, and turn any stone into cash quickly.
