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Scrap Gold Wanted
We are always keen to buy scrap gold and other jewellery, paying fair and competitive prices, particularly for clean, sorted hallmarked material.
Some jewellers, pawnbrokers and other buyers are only interested in buying as cheaply as possible. Others are reluctant to buy because they are afraid of being stuck with unwanted scrap.
Naturally, we cannot pay double or treble the price, but often we find that we can, and do, pay 10% to 20% more than our competitors.
Nowadays, most of the High Street multiple retail jewellers are not interested in purchasing scrap or second-hand jewellery, partly because it would require at least one of their staff members to have some real expertise, but also because it might alert some of their customers to the huge retail markups. That's when it pays to come to a real jeweller and bullion dealer like ourselves, rather than a shopkeeper who happens to sell jewellery!

Hallmarked Scrap
It is easier for us if you have your scrap gold properly sorted into various grades of hallmarked gold, with tested unhallmarked scrap kept separate, and properly identified.

Free Valuations
One thing we avoid is giving free valuations, otherwise all our time would be taken up providing free valuations, and we would not be able to give a good service to our valued customers, or have the time to create new ring designs, or to produce the beautiful diamond rings for which we are famous.
Because of this, we will always ask you to tell us what you already know.
If you do need a probate or disposal valuation, we will be happy to provide this for a reasonable fee.

Help Us To Help You
You, as the owner of the jewellery start off with the advantage that initially you know far more about your jewellery than we do. It is not our practice to take a ten second glance at your jewellery and value it instantly. We try to take a thorough and professional approach to appraisals, and this requires time, careful measurement and examination. For some items, we may not be the best buyer, and we will be quite happy to tell you if we think this is the case.
From long experience, we believe that the more information you can share with us initially, the quicker we can arrive at an opinion, and the more time we can spend helping you to achieve your objectives.
Please bring indentification with you if calling personally at our premises, otherwise send your jewellery with an invoice, letterheading, business card, or other identification.

Percentages & Quantities
We are happy to pay 90% of intrinsic gold content for any hallmarked scrap gold from 100 grams upwards in total, and 95% or more for quantities of 1 kilo upwards. In fact we will pay up to 98% of intrinsic for melted and assayed bars, or for large volumes after melt and assay charges.
For smaller amounts, under 100 grams, or for unclean and unsorted material, we will make a deduction for sorting or testing where necessary, but will still pay upwards of 80% of intrinsic gold content, which is still at least 10% more than most of our competitors.

What To Do Next
If you would like to send your scrap to us, we will happily make you an offer. We would ask you to send it to us, along with all the information you have and a covering letter explaining how much you would like to get for the piece(s) and a cheque for £10. Please ensure you include your contact details, especially your telephone number as we find it a lot quicker and easier to telephone you with an offer rather than spend time writing to you! If you accept our offer we will return your £10 cheque along with a cheque for your scrap. If you decline our offer we will use the £10 cheque to cover our costs and the cost of insured return postage.

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Please quote this page when sending or bringing us scrap gold. Better still, enclose a print out with your parcel.

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32 - 36 Harrowside, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY4 1RJ, England.
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