Recently the price of gold streaked higher, and shows no signs of stopping! It is easy to find gold ETFs and coin dealers from which to buy gold (often at considerable markup, buyer beware). What any owner of gold wants to know is how to sell gold at the best price for the seller. With gold in demand throughout the world (India’s central bank, Reserve Bank of India, announced on Nov. 2, 2009 it purchased 200 metric tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund), it may very well be that now is the time to sell.
What is a pennyweight? A pennyweight is a unit of measure still used by some jewelry manufacturers and dental labs for weighing precious metals. The public on the other hand, will very rarely come across this unit of measure as very few scales read pennyweights. Here is the trick; a pennyweight weighs 1.514 grams or roughly one and a half gram. Now for customers of cash for gold who want to sell gold, gold prices displayed in pennyweights (DWT) may appear much higher than prices displayed in grams. Naturally the reason for this being that a pennyweight weighs more! So in reality the price displayed when converted to grams may be far less than other businesses gram gold prices.
You could also go to gold parties, the hottest trend in town right now. One more place where to sell gold jewelry is this one which also accepts scrap gold. Once the item has been sold you will immediately get your money.
The fact of the matter is that whenever a market becomes crowded, greed gets the better of some people. They make promises they have no intention of keeping and try to swindle people. In the past, there was no way to identify a swindler and even less of a chance to catch one after the deed was done. You do not want time wasters, and shady individuals are even worse for your time and cash flow. Ultimately, it is more in line with your best interests to simply deal with a company that brokers deals online and lets you make basic choices.
There are some disadvantageous for online trading, even though it is the most easy way to sell your gold. Reliability is the biggest issue in direct gold selling. It is pretty hard to check the reliability of a where to sell scrap gold. If you are wondering how to sell gold via internet without risk, you can seek the help of brokerage firms. This method is called indirect online gold selling. You can reduce the risk of online trading, with the help of these intermediate firms. First, you have to find a good gold brokerage firm. After that, register your account and details about gold items to sell. They know exactly where to sell gold. Even if anything went wrong, you can claim your losses from these firms. Brokerage is comparatively stumpy in most of the online firms.
You may be wondering though how to sell gold for cash if you don’t know the value of your gold pieces. For instance, gold jewelry comes in many forms – the most common of which are earrings, bracelets, necklaces and timepieces. You should avoid selling these for their scrap value because the retail value is higher (hovering at 75% at the most.) Scrap value means the buyer is buying your gold for the value of the metal alone – the retail value allows you to factor in the aesthetic value of your gold pieces so that you can sell gold for cash at a higher price.
The second choice is to market those items to buy gold scrap shops. Jewelry shops would pay top dollar for products since they have the finances. The big downside is you must go from one shop to another to ‘hawk’ your items. This could be time consuming. You’ll need a whole weekend or probably more in covering this errand.
The best online gold dealers can be found by searching with short phrases such as, “cash for gold,” or “sell your gold and silver,” or “buying platinum and palladium.” Make the deal only after you’ve done the research, and had all your questions answered to your satisfaction.
