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 London without carrying it across the city. GoldPaid serves customers in London by post using a prepaid Royal Mail label. You do not need to visit a shop. Send photos on WhatsApp for a rough estimate, post from any Post Office, and decide at home once you have 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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Where can I sell gold in London without visiting a shop?GoldPaid buys gold and silver by post, covering every London borough. There is no GoldPaid shopfront anywhere in London. You send photos on WhatsApp (07944 014111) for a rough estimate, request a free Royal Mail Special Delivery label (cover that may be available up to £2,500 depending on the postal method and cover level used), post from any London Post Office counter, and receive a written XRF-confirmed valuation, usually on the working day the parcel arrives. Then you accept and are paid by bank transfer, or have everything returned free of charge by tracked post. 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.
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.
Selling in London: Hatton Garden or the post?
Hatton Garden, in Holborn, is London’s jewellery quarter, with nearly 300 businesses in the jewellery trade and more than 90 shops. If you want to hand a piece over in person and collect several counter quotes in one afternoon, that is where to go.
Posting to GoldPaid suits a different seller: someone who would rather not carry valuables across London, wants every item listed in writing with its tested purity, or needs time to show the offer to family or an executor before deciding. You can do both. Ask for a rough estimate from photos on WhatsApp first, and you have a number to hold against any counter quote.
A Hatton Garden counter or GoldPaid by post
At a counter
By post
Figure
On the day
Indicative from photos, then a written offer after XRF testing
Compare
Several shops in one trip
One written offer; decline it and your items come back free
Testing
Ask each shop
Each item XRF-tested, purity shown on the offer
Items
You carry them
Royal Mail Special Delivery, free prepaid label
Payment
Ask the shop
Faster Payments if you accept; we aim to pay within one working hour of acceptance
Deciding
In the shop
At home; the offer holds for a limited time
Family
Go back for a fresh quote
Share the itemised offer with relatives or an executor first
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. Final offers depend on inspection, item weight, purity, hallmarks, stones, non-gold components, condition and the live precious-metal market.
GoldPaid has no shop or counter in Hatton Garden or anywhere else in London. We have also published a sourced comparison with one well-known Hatton Garden dealer: GoldPaid and Hatton Garden Metals compared.
The leopard’s head on London pieces
London’s town mark is the leopard’s head. A statute of 1300 required gold and silver to meet a set standard and to be marked with it, and in 1478 the Goldsmiths’ Company set up the country’s first assay office at Goldsmiths’ Hall, which still operates today.
The mark tells you where a piece was tested, not where it was bought, and a London family can own pieces marked in Birmingham, Sheffield or Edinburgh. The detail that matters when you sell is the date letter beside the town mark. 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. How to read the London leopard’s head and the date letter chart explain both.
22ct gold and pieces bought abroad
Gold stamped 916 is 22ct: every gram holds 0.916g of fine gold, about 2.4 times the gold in a gram of 9ct, so the same weight of 22ct holds far more fine gold than 9ct. A piece bought abroad without a UK hallmark is valued the same way. The XRF reading sets the carat, your offer reflects the weight and purity we measure and the live precious-metal market, and stones or enamel are separated from the gold weight line by line on the offer.
If you would rather sell in person, Green Street in Newham is a regional shopping centre for jewellery, food and fabrics, and Southall is one of the largest South Asian shopping areas in London. If you would rather not take family pieces to a counter, or you want an itemised offer to share with relatives first, post them instead. How GoldPaid values 22ct Indian gold.
What happens, from first message to payment
A photo and a question. Send photos of your gold or silver on WhatsApp. We reply with a rough estimate and answer whatever you want to know.
A prepaid label, on request. Ask for the label when you are ready. We send a free Royal Mail Special Delivery label, tracked and signed for, or a QR code for the Post Office counter.
You post it. Any padded envelope is fine, posted whenever you choose.
We assess and write it up. Weighing and an XRF assay produce a written, itemised offer for you to read at home, usually on the working day your parcel arrives.
Your decision. Accept for payment by Faster Payments, or decline for a free, tracked, signed-for 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.
The 32 London boroughs and the City of London, all covered by post
GoldPaid serves every one of the 33 London local authorities by post on identical terms: the same free tracked Royal Mail Special Delivery label, the same XRF-confirmed written offer, and the same free tracked return if you decline. That covers Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Westminster.
London postcodes
London is covered by eight inner postcode areas, E, EC, N, NW, SE, SW, W and WC, with the outer boroughs reaching into BR, CR, DA, EN, HA, IG, KT, RM, SM, TW and UB. Royal Mail does not route Special Delivery differently between them, so a parcel handed in at a Post Office counter in any London postcode is handled the same way.
Check your branch’s opening hours on the Post Office branch finder, and keep the counter receipt: it carries the tracking number.
What GoldPaid buys from London sellers
Wherever you are in London, GoldPaid buys the same range of gold and silver, valued the same way: each item XRF-tested, weighed and written up before you decide. What GoldPaid buys:
Broken and worn gold jewellery. Snapped chains, single earrings, bent or outdated rings. Condition makes no difference; the offer is 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 take it further.
What backs the offer up
XRF spectrometry on every item, not a counter estimate
A written, itemised breakdown before you decide anything
Free tracked postage in, free tracked return out
No countdowns, no pressure, no fabricated reviews
An owner-run business whose founder, Rocco Clayfield, answers questions himself
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.
No. GoldPaid has no shop or counter in Hatton Garden or anywhere else in London. Our staffed office is in Bristol and does not take drop-ins. GoldPaid serves customers in London by post using a prepaid Royal Mail label. You do not need to visit a shop. Send photos on WhatsApp (07944 014111) for a rough estimate first.
Should I get a Hatton Garden quote as well?
If it is easy for you to get there, yes. Ask us for a rough estimate from photos first, then compare. Our firm figure comes after XRF testing, because final offers depend on inspection, item weight, purity, hallmarks, stones, non-gold components, condition and the live precious-metal market.
My jewellery has a leopard’s head. Is it worth more?
Not because of the mark itself. The leopard’s head shows the London office hallmarked it, and the date letter beside it tells you roughly when. An older piece is checked for collector value before it is priced as metal, and if that looks likely to exceed its metal value we tell you.
Can I sell 22ct gold that has no UK hallmark?
Yes. Each item is XRF-tested, and your offer reflects the measured carat and weight and the live precious-metal market. Stones and enamel are separated from the gold weight on the written offer.
How long does it take from London?
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.
Message us with a clear photo of your items on WhatsApp, or call. From any London borough the process moves at your pace: ask your questions first, post only when you are ready, and decide only once the written offer is in front of you. If you decline, your items come back free of charge, tracked and signed for.
