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GoldPaid buys gold by post from UK resellers who find it in their stock: eBay and Vinted sellers, car boot traders, antique dealers and house clearance firms. Every parcel is XRF-tested and valued the same way as any other seller’s, with a written offer first and payment by bank transfer only if you accept. If you plan to send more than one parcel, message us before the first.
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.
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.
The questions people ask before they send anything, answered here rather than at the end of the page.
Final offers depend on inspection, item weight, purity, hallmarks, stones, non-gold components, condition and the live precious-metal market.
If gold passes through your hands as part of a trade, the route is the same as for anyone else: send photos on WhatsApp, post the pieces with a free prepaid Royal Mail label, and read an itemised written offer before deciding. The valuation is the same one we apply for everyone, and nothing is deducted. Charity shops have a separate charity programme.
This is for UK resellers who come across gold as part of a wider buying activity rather than as a single inherited piece: an eBay reseller buying job lots of jewellery at auction, a Vinted seller clearing drawer finds, an antique dealer with gold pieces that do not suit the shop, or a house clearance firm with mixed jewellery from a property.
Each parcel is handled like any other: its own prepaid label, usually sent within 30 minutes between 8am and 9pm, its own XRF test and weighing, and its own written offer.
Gold is valued on the weight of the gold itself and its XRF-confirmed carat, against the live precious-metal market. Our margin is already accounted for, so nothing further comes off, and a reseller’s parcel is valued the same way as anyone else’s. Final offers depend on inspection, item weight, purity, hallmarks, stones, non-gold components, condition and the live precious-metal market.
Gold-plated, rolled-gold and costume pieces hold no metal a refiner can recover, so they are listed at nil on the written offer and returned free. It pays to take those out before you post.
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 parcel to us; the retail pile goes onto your listings. The written offer on the scrap parcel usually follows on the working day it arrives, and payment is by bank transfer if you accept. 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.
A house clearance firm works the same way, with the written offer as the record of what each piece was and what it was paid. Charity shops are different: donated gold is bought under a separate charity programme with its own terms, set out on charity shop gold buying.
Message us on WhatsApp or call 07944 014111, 8am to 9pm, with what you buy and roughly how often you expect to send gold. Like every seller, you will be asked for a photograph of UK photo ID, and payment goes to a UK bank account in the seller’s name.
Each parcel is then signed for on arrival and opened at our Bristol office, where every piece is weighed and XRF-tested. The written offer lists each piece with its weight, purity and the figure. There is no fee, no contract and no minimum, and you can accept part of a parcel and take the rest back free.
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.
We email you a Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed label, usually within 30 minutes between 8am and 9pm: tracked end to end 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. Print the label at home, or ask for a QR code and the Post Office counter prints it for you. If your items are worth more, message us before posting and we split them across more than one prepaid label. There is more on postage and cover. 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.
Then nothing happens except a free return. We send your items back by tracked, signed-for post at our cost, with no fee for declining and no follow-up. A valuation is only worth having if you can turn it down freely, so you can. See what happens if I decline the offer.
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.
Accept the offer and we aim to send the money by Faster Payments within one working hour of your acceptance, straight to the bank account you provide. There are no cheques and no strings.
GoldPaid makes no price-beating claims. You get the XRF reading, the weight and the figure for every piece in writing, and you decide at home.
Every parcel is opened at our Bristol office and each piece is handled on its own. Nothing is averaged across the parcel.
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.
No. A single broken chain is valued the same way as a large parcel, and you can accept part of an offer and take the rest back free.
A written, itemised offer for each parcel, listing every piece with its weight, purity and the figure, and the bank transfer if you accept.
Charity shops sell donated gold under a separate charity programme with its own terms. See charity shop gold buying.
Yes. Each piece is XRF-tested and listed separately on one written offer for the parcel, with gold and silver each valued in their own right.
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. There is no obligation at any stage and the only commitment is your decision to accept a written offer once you have seen it.
We give rough estimates where possible; your final offer follows inspection. We arrange postage with you after our conversation.
No obligation. Free tracked return if you decline. We aim to pay within one working hour of acceptance.