Rough estimates where possible; your final offer follows inspection.
No obligation. Free tracked return if you decline. We aim to pay within one working hour of acceptance.
You can sell gold in Bath by post. GoldPaid serves customers in Bath by post using a prepaid Royal Mail label. You do not need to visit a shop. Send photos on WhatsApp first: older pieces are checked for antique value before anything is priced as metal. Post with the free label when you are ready, and decide after reading a written offer based on an XRF test of each item.
Send a photo on WhatsApp for a rough estimate where possible, or arrange to post your items for assessment. We confirm our purchase offer after inspection, and you decide whether to accept. Final offers depend on inspection, item weight, purity, hallmarks, stones, non-gold components, condition and the live precious-metal market.
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Do I need to visit a shop in Bath?No. GoldPaid serves customers in Bath by post using a prepaid Royal Mail label. You do not need to visit a shop. Our staffed office is in Clifton, Bristol, and it does not take drop-ins, so everything reaches us by the prepaid label.
Please send us photos on WhatsApp, and we will help you.
Send photos of your items and any hallmarks. We give a rough estimate where possible; your final offer follows inspection. You do not need to arrange postage to ask us a question.
We arrange postage with you after our conversation.
Before you post
The questions people ask before they send anything, answered here rather than at the end of the page.
Can I ask first?
Yes. WhatsApp a photo to 07944 014111, 8am to 9pm, every day, and we reply with an idea of what it is worth. Nothing is posted until you decide.
Is it safe to post?
Your parcel travels by Royal Mail Special Delivery, tracked and signed for. Royal Mail cover may be available up to £2,500 depending on the postal method and cover level used. GoldPaid can confirm the appropriate postal option before you post.
How is it tested?
Your parcel is signed for on arrival and opened at our Bristol office, where each item is weighed and tested with an XRF analyser, an X-ray test that reads the metal without marking it. Your written offer lists each piece with its weight, purity and figure.
What if I say no?
We return everything by Royal Mail Special Delivery at our cost. Saying no costs you nothing.
When am I paid?
Only if you accept the written offer. We aim for the money to reach your bank within 24 hours of posting. We use Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed, test your items promptly on receipt, and aim to pay by Faster Payments within one working hour of your acceptance. The 24-hour target is an aim, not a guarantee: it depends on posting before the local cut-off, the applicable working-day delivery service, prompt acceptance, completed identity checks and bank processing.
How long does an offer last?
Each written offer is dated and holds for a limited time, because metal prices move. If it lapses, we re-run it at that day’s rate.
Who am I dealing with?
GOLDPAID LTD, registered in England and Wales, run by founder Rocco Clayfield. Our office is at Unit 217, Bristol Business Centre, 179 Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2AG. We are postal only, so there is no counter to visit. Before we pay, we ask every seller for a photo of their passport or driving licence.
Final offers depend on inspection, item weight, purity, hallmarks, stones, non-gold components, condition and the live precious-metal market.
Georgian and Victorian jewellery: antique value before metal value
If you are clearing Georgian or Victorian jewellery in Bath, find out whether a piece is worth more as an antique before you sell it for its metal. Send us photos first. Period work, signed maker pieces and unusual settings are checked for collector value, and where that value looks likely to exceed the metal content we tell you rather than buying it on weight. Final offers depend on inspection, item weight, purity, hallmarks, stones, non-gold components, condition and the live precious-metal market.
Bath has many antique shops and commercial galleries, so a second opinion from a dealer is easy to get. Take it before you post, or after: if your parcel is already with us when you decide a dealer should see a piece, the return is free.
A monarch’s head among the marks. It can be the duty mark struck on silver between 1784 and 1890, which would date the piece to that period.
The date letter. Each assay office struck a letter for the year of marking, and the letter’s style and shield change from cycle to cycle. The date letter chart narrows a piece to its year.
Stones and settings. Period settings, hand-cut stones and signed work are checked for collector value before any metal figure is worked out, because some pieces are worth more left as they are.
Your parcel travels by Royal Mail Special Delivery to GoldPaid’s staffed office at Unit 217, Bristol Business Centre, 179 Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2AG. It is signed for on arrival and opened there, and each item is weighed and XRF-tested. The office is not a counter and does not take drop-ins, so post with the prepaid label even from Bath. More about the Bristol office.
Four moving parts, all visible
You ask, we steer. WhatsApp us photos of your gold or silver; you get a rough estimate and no pressure to go further.
We send the label. A free Royal Mail Special Delivery label arrives, tracked and signed for, with a QR-code option if you cannot print.
You post when ready. No countdown. Use whatever padded packaging you already have.
We test, you decide. We weigh and XRF-assay every item, then send you the written offer, usually on the working day your parcel arrives. Accept it for a Faster Payments transfer, or decline it for a free tracked return.
Your parcel is signed for on arrival and opened at our Bristol office, where each item is weighed and XRF-tested before the written offer is prepared.
Posting gold from a BA postcode
Any Post Office counter in or around Bath accepts the prepaid Royal Mail Special Delivery label, and a parcel from a BA-postcode address is handled the same way as one posted anywhere else in the UK. Check your branch’s opening hours on the Post Office branch finder, and keep the counter receipt: it carries the tracking number.
Royal Mail cover may be available up to £2,500 depending on the postal method and cover level used. GoldPaid can confirm the appropriate postal option before you post. If your items may be worth more, we can split them across more than one prepaid label at no charge. Postage and cover in full.
Why sell to GoldPaid
GoldPaid is a small, owner-run UK business built on one promise: show the working. Every item is weighed and XRF-assayed, and every offer is itemised in writing. Postage is free and tracked both ways, and there is never a countdown or a hard sell. If something is worth more to a specialist than to us, we say so.
What decides your offer
Every parcel is opened at our Bristol office and each piece is handled on its own. Nothing is averaged across the parcel.
Weight. Each item is weighed on scales. Stones, steel springs, non-gold clasps and cores are not paid as gold. The written breakdown explains the payable metal weight for each item, rather than treating everything on the scales as precious metal.
Purity. Each item is tested with an XRF analyser, which reads the metals at the points tested without marking the item. A surface reading alone cannot establish the composition of a plated or filled piece. Hallmarks, construction and different components all need to be considered alongside the test.
The market on the day. Gold and silver are priced against the live precious-metal market at the time your parcel is assessed, not at the time you posted.
Condition and intact value. Broken is fine and does not reduce a metal offer. Where a piece is worth more intact (a named maker, a collectable coin, a locket with provenance) we tell you before testing, so you can choose.
Anything that is not gold or silver. Plated, rolled-gold and base-metal items are listed on the offer at nothing and returned to you free. We never quietly keep them.
Why we do not publish a per-gram price list. A single printed rate hides the things that change the figure: hollow versus solid, stones, mixed carats in one bag, a mark that does not match the metal. We would rather show you the weight, the tested purity and the figure for each item, in writing, and let you decide. Final offers depend on inspection, item weight, purity, hallmarks, stones, non-gold components, condition and the live precious-metal market.
What you see before you decide. A written, itemised offer by WhatsApp or email: every item, its weight, its tested purity, and its figure. Accept and we aim to pay by bank transfer within one working hour. Decline and the whole parcel comes back by Royal Mail Special Delivery at our cost. No fee, no deduction, no questions.
Will you tell me if a piece is worth more as an antique?
Yes. Where collector value looks likely to exceed the metal content, we tell you rather than buying the piece on weight, and you are free to take it to a dealer instead.
My silver has the King’s or Queen’s head among its marks. What does that mean?
It can be the duty mark struck on silver between 1784 and 1890, which would date the piece to that period. Send a photo of all the marks and we will read them with you before you post.
How long does it take from Bath?
Royal Mail Special Delivery normally reaches our Bristol office the next working day. The parcel is signed for on arrival and opened there, each item is weighed and XRF-tested, and the written offer usually follows by email on the working day it arrives. If you accept, we aim to pay by Faster Payments within one working hour of your acceptance.
What happens if I do not accept the offer?
Your items come back to you free of charge by Royal Mail Special Delivery, tracked and signed for. There is no fee for declining and no obligation to accept, and you can accept part of a parcel and decline the rest. The written offer is dated and holds for a limited time; if it lapses before you decide, it is re-run against the live precious-metal market at that time. What happens if you decline.
Not the question you had? The full GoldPaid FAQ covers the rest, from postal cover and ID checks to what happens if you decline the offer.
Please send us photos on WhatsApp, and we will help you. We give a rough estimate where possible and arrange postage with you after our conversation. Your final offer follows inspection.
Drop us a WhatsApp message with a photo, or call. The whole sequence is opt-in step by step, and the written offer is the first moment any decision matters.
