Postal gold buying for UK resellers and trade accounts

The trade-account service is for UK resellers who acquire gold as part of a wider buying activity, not as a single inherited piece but as a recurring stream of jewellery passing through their hands. Typical accounts: an eBay reseller buying job lots of jewellery at auction; a Vinted seller liquidating drawer-finds; a charity shop manager whose donation stream regularly includes precious metal; an antique dealer extracting gold content from pieces that do not fit their main inventory; a house clearance firm with weekly parcels of mixed jewellery.

The single-parcel postal route works fine for occasional sales but is inefficient for resellers running 5-30 parcels per month. The trade account replaces it with a simpler process: pre-issued labels in bulk, a dedicated WhatsApp number for quick photograph-quotes, batched valuations across multiple parcels, and a per-gram rate that reflects the repeat-business volume.

We do not publish a headline percentage of spot, because a percentage quoted without the carat, the weight and the date is not a comparable number. Trade accounts move up the scale depending on monthly fine-gold volume: 30 to 100 grams a month sits at one tier, 100 to 500 grams at the next, 500 grams and above at the highest. The rate uplift is shown openly on each written offer so you see exactly which tier applied.

Volume is measured on fine-gold content rather than gross weight, a kilogram of mostly costume jewellery does not count the same as 300 grams of confirmed 18ct, because what we pay against is the fine-gold figure that comes off the XRF and the scale.

For coin and bullion parcels (sovereigns, Krugerrands, bars) the spread is tighter still, because there is no refining loss to price in. Trade-account holders posting regular coin parcels work to a near-spot figure that is published openly per parcel.

The everyday reseller workflow looks like this. Job lot of mixed jewellery arrives at your home or storage. You separate the pieces that you will list on eBay/Vinted (signed pieces, intact branded jewellery, anything with retail saleability) from the pieces that are best sold by weight (broken chains, scrap, single earrings, fragments, anything without a clear retail path).

The scrap pile goes into a trade-account parcel; the retail pile goes onto your listings. You receive a written offer on the scrap parcel typically the same working day as it arrives, paid by bank transfer on acceptance. The retail pieces meanwhile work through your own listing process at their retail value. Two parallel routes, two parallel cash flows, no time wasted trying to list things that will not sell as retail items anyway.

For charity shops and house clearance firms, the model is similar but operates at one remove: the parcel is dispatched on behalf of the organisation, the bank transfer goes to the organisation's account, the audit trail is intact for charity-finance reporting purposes. We provide a written purchase receipt suitable for trustee and audit records on every transaction.

The setup process is short. Message us on WhatsApp 07944014111 with the name of your business (sole trader, eBay shop, charity, limited company, all fine), an estimate of monthly fine-gold volume, and one piece of business-confirmation (HMRC sole-trader confirmation, Companies House registration, charity number, whichever applies). We confirm the account, issue a batch of prepaid labels to draw on, and give you a named contact for photograph-quotes inside working hours.

From that point each parcel posts under the trade account, lands at the workshop, is XRF-tested and weighed, the written offer is issued on the same working day, and the bank transfer settles on acceptance. Monthly statements are issued for accounting purposes. There is no membership fee, no minimum-volume penalty and no contract. The account simply gives you better per-gram rates and a faster route on repeat parcels.