Selling old gold jewelry?

[jcardona1]

So we have some unused old ugly gold jewelry we'd like to get rid of. But anybody used any of those online cash-for-gold type services? Any specific company you can recommend? Or other options for selling gold? Google search leads to endless spammy sites...

 

[bbortko]

Almost all local shops that staff jewelers will buy it.

 

[Kaosu]

dont send it to those rip off gold things..take it to a coin store near you and they should be able to direct you to a place to sell your gold.

look up the price of gold before you do.

 

[jabones]

its best to call around to local coin and jewlry shops, and ask their buying price. then decide where to sell. all i can say is gold is up pretty high right now. its up to 1710.70 thats up $150 for 12 months.

 

[jcardona1]

Thanks. Yeah I figured lots of those online places will lowball you. I read up on how to calculate the estimated value based on the what carat gold it is, and I have a small digital scale, so I'll have to do the math. Anybody actually ever dealt with those online places, just curious?

 

[Kaosu]

lol..this thread made me think of this

http://cashforgold.blogspot.com/2010/12/funny-cash4gold-letter-recieved-by-mr.html

 

[jcardona1]

haha I remember that!

 

[kodiak]

I have sold scrap on e-bay before .It worked out well.

 

[JD7.62]

JC, how much do you have? I buy scrap gold. Depending on how much you have I can give you a good offer.

 

[jcardona1]

^ I'll get back to you on that. My gf just brought some old jewelry from her parent's house, so let me check it out. It's not much though, just a few random pieces that we have absolutely no use for since she doesn't like yellow gold anymore, so we figure might as well sell it.