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 and silver anywhere in Northumberland without visiting a shop. GoldPaid is a UK-wide postal buyer: ask first on WhatsApp, request a free prepaid Royal Mail Special Delivery label, hand the parcel in at a Post Office counter, and decide only once a written, XRF-tested offer is in front of you. Declined items come back free.
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 Northumberland?No. GoldPaid serves customers across Northumberland by post using a prepaid Royal Mail label. You do not need to visit a shop. The label arrives by email and you post your items from any UK Post Office.
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.
A Roman silver dish from the Tyne and Newcastle's three castles
In 1735 a cobbler's daughter found a Roman silver dish on the banks of the River Tyne by Corbridge. The Corbridge Lanx dates from the 4th century AD, is engraved with Apollo and several goddesses, and weighs 4.6 kg. It stayed with the Dukes of Northumberland until 1993, when it was sold to the British Museum.
No text change needed; consider citing a non-commercial source for the Newcastle office dates and marks. Newcastle's assay office ran from 1702 to 1884, set up by a separate Act of Parliament after the town had been left out of the Plate Assay Act of 1700. Its town mark is three castles in a shield, two above and one below. Between 1721 and 1727 the lion passant on Newcastle pieces faces right instead of left, and the final dies were destroyed in June 1884.
A Northumberland heirloom showing three castles was therefore tested in Newcastle no later than 1884. That age can count for more than the weight of silver in it, so we read the marks from your photos and say plainly when a piece should be looked at as more than scrap.
How selling gold by post across Northumberland works
GoldPaid serves customers across Northumberland by post using a prepaid Royal Mail label. You do not need to visit a shop. There is no GoldPaid branch anywhere in Northumberland, and there does not need to be: the service is built so the parcel does the travelling, not you, and so every decision is made by you at home.
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.
Most Northumberland addresses use NE postcodes, the Royal Mail postcode area named after Newcastle upon Tyne: Hexham is NE46, Morpeth NE61, Amble and the Coquet Valley NE65, and Alnwick NE66. Berwick-upon-Tweed is the exception. It is in England, but its postcode is TD15, part of the TD area named after Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. The label, the cover and the written offer are the same for both.
Hand the parcel over at a Post Office counter and keep the receipt: it carries the tracking reference and is your proof of posting. The branch finder on the Post Office website lists the counters nearest your postcode, with their opening hours.
Selling gold from Hexham
The Hexham post town covers three postcode districts: NE46 for the town itself and nearby Acomb, NE47, which takes in Hexhamshire, and NE48, which reaches up to Falstone and Kielder. GoldPaid serves customers in Hexham by post using a prepaid Royal Mail label. You do not need to visit a shop. The steps are the same as anywhere else in Northumberland and are set out on this page.
Ask first. Post later, or not at all.
You can ask as much as you like before anything is sent. Photos on WhatsApp give us enough to offer a rough estimate on your gold or silver, and we will tell you straight if something is not worth posting. Nothing moves until you say so.
Selling with GoldPaid is done entirely by post, anywhere in the UK. There is no shop to find and no pressure at a counter, because there is no counter.
Northumberland: why selling by post suits it
Northumberland is England’s northernmost county: stone market towns, the Cheviot Hills and a long castle coast, with Hexham in the Tyne Valley and Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Scottish border.
Every address in the county, from the Tyne Valley to the Scottish border, is served by post on the same terms.
How it works
Ask first and send photos. Message us on WhatsApp with photos of your gold or silver for a rough estimate. Ask anything; there is no charge and no obligation.
Request a prepaid Royal Mail label. We send a free Royal Mail Special Delivery label, tracked and signed for, usually within 30 minutes between 8am and 9pm. No printer? We send a QR code for the Post Office counter.
Post it when you are ready. Use any padded envelope. There is no deadline and no pressure.
Receive a no-obligation valuation. Every item is weighed and tested by XRF spectrometry at our Bristol office. You get a written, itemised offer, usually on the working day your parcel arrives, showing purity, weight and the figure.
Accept or decline. Accept and you are paid by bank transfer via Faster Payments. Decline and everything is returned free of charge by tracked, signed-for post.
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.
What a photo tells us, and what it cannot
Before your gold or silver is posted, a few clear pictures let us give you a rough estimate and point out anything you should know.
From a good photo we can usually read the hallmark and the mark of the assay office that tested the piece. We can spot purity stamps such as 375, 750, 916 and 925, which stand for 9ct, 18ct and 22ct gold and for sterling silver. We can judge approximate size and weight against a coin or ruler, and tell whether an item looks solid or plated. Marks like "GP", "rolled gold" or "EPNS", or base metal showing through worn edges, usually mean plating. Set stones, clasps and non-gold fittings are not precious metal, so we explain separately how they affect the value.
Photos guide an indicative figure only. Final offers depend on inspection, item weight, purity, hallmarks, stones, non-gold components, condition and the live precious-metal market. We confirm the firm offer after an XRF assay of your own items. See the gold hallmark guide and scrap gold value for more.
Town pages GoldPaid publishes in Northumberland (5 so far)
Every town below has its own page setting out the postal process, the postcode routing and the timings for that area. GoldPaid covers all of them on identical terms, with the same free prepaid Royal Mail label and the same written, XRF-confirmed offer.
Northumberland has its own county hub on the national locations index: Northumberland. The county hub gathers only the towns in that county and cross-links to its neighbouring served counties, so a seller close to a county border can find the next-nearest served county without leaving the locations tree.
Valued on fact, not estimate
Your valuation rests on things we can measure. An XRF assay confirms the purity, the scales record the weight, and the live precious-metal market on the day sets the figure, with our margin already inside it. It is all shown to you in writing first. XRF testing explained covers how the assay works.
Final offers depend on inspection, item weight, purity, hallmarks, stones, non-gold components, condition and the live precious-metal market. Your written offer applies the weight and purity we measure to the live precious-metal market, with our margin already inside the figure.
One parcel gets one written figure, itemised piece by piece. Your offer reflects the weight and purity we measure and the live precious-metal market on the day, with our margin already inside the figure, so nothing further is taken off. For coins, watches and signed or collectable pieces, send a photo on WhatsApp first and we will tell you how we would value them before you post anything.
Postage and cover
Your parcel travels on Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed: tracked end to end and signed for on delivery. 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, message us first and we can split them across more than one prepaid label, each with its own tracking number, at no charge. Full detail is on postage and cover, and is it safe to post gold? walks through posting valuables safely. If a parcel is lost on its way to us, the compensation claim goes to Royal Mail from you, the sender, using your Post Office receipt, and we give you our tracking records and help you make it. Lost parcels, step by step.
Declining, made simple
A quick message is all it takes to decline, and you do not need to give a reason. Your items are then returned free of charge on a tracked, signed-for service, with no fee and no pressure to reconsider. What happens if I decline the offer covers it fully.
The written offer is dated and holds for a limited time, because metal prices move. If it lapses before you decide, we re-run it against the live precious-metal market on the day, at no charge. You can also accept part of a parcel and decline the rest, with no minimum and no penalty for splitting it.
The payment step
Acceptance starts payment: we aim to send a Faster Payments bank transfer within one working hour of your acceptance, to the account you give us. Nothing to bank and nothing to chase.
What GoldPaid buys across Northumberland
Wherever you are in Northumberland, GoldPaid buys the same range of gold and silver, valued the same way: each item XRF-tested, weighed and written up before you decide. Items GoldPaid buys include:
Broken and worn gold jewellery. Snapped chains, single earrings, bent rings; condition makes no difference, we pay for the metal.
Whatever you have, the first step is the same: a clear photo on WhatsApp and a rough estimate in reply, with no obligation to go further.
Who stands behind the offer
Owner-run, with founder Rocco Clayfield personally accountable for the service
Every item XRF-assayed, the result shown to you in writing
Free tracked postage both ways, so a valuation carries no obligation
Honest about its limits, including when a specialist would suit you better
No fabricated reviews and no invented numbers, anywhere on the site
Common questions
Can I sell gold from Hexham or Berwick-upon-Tweed by post?
Yes. GoldPaid serves customers in Hexham and Berwick-upon-Tweed by post using a prepaid Royal Mail label. You do not need to visit a shop. A TD15 postcode in Berwick-upon-Tweed makes no difference: the label, the written offer and the free return if you decline are the same across Northumberland.
Which towns in Northumberland does GoldPaid cover?
GoldPaid covers every town and address in Northumberland by post on identical terms. The 5 town pages listed on this hub are every Northumberland page GoldPaid publishes; if your town is not among them the service and the cover are exactly the same, and the UK-wide postal service page covers every other address.
How long does postage take from Northumberland?
Royal Mail Special Delivery normally reaches us the next working morning. We normally XRF-assay and weigh your items the day they arrive and email the written offer the same day; acceptance triggers a Faster Payments transfer.
What cover applies to my parcel?
The label we send is Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed, fully 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. If your items may be worth more than £2,500, tell us first and we can split them across more than one prepaid label at no charge.
What happens if I do not accept the offer?
Your items are returned to you free of charge by tracked, signed-for Royal Mail Special Delivery. There is no fee for declining, no pressure and no obligation to accept at any stage.
How should I photograph my items before posting?
Lay each item flat on a plain surface in good daylight, then take one clear overall photo and a close-up of any hallmark or carat stamp. Photographing items next to a coin or a ruler helps show their size. From those photos we can usually read hallmarks, spot carat stamps and tell whether something looks solid or plated, which is enough for a rough estimate on WhatsApp.
Do I need to clean or polish my gold before sending it?
No. Please send items as they are. Value comes from the weight and purity of the precious metal, not the shine, and gentle wear, tarnish or small repairs make no difference to a postal valuation. There is no need to remove stones or dismantle anything either; set stones and non-gold parts are simply accounted for separately.
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.
Message us with a clear photo of your items on WhatsApp, or call. From any town in Northumberland, the process moves at your pace: ask first, post only when you are ready, and decide only on a written offer. Free tracked return if you decline.
