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GoldPaid buys gold and silver from Masham by post, with no shop to visit. From Masham you never travel and never face a hard sell. Photos and questions go first on WhatsApp, the free prepaid Royal Mail label comes next when you want it, and the written offer is read at home before anything is settled.
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.
GoldPaid serves customers in Masham by post using a prepaid Royal Mail label. You do not need to visit a shop. We are not a Masham business with a Masham address; we are a UK-wide postal buyer, and the postal route is built so you stay in control at every step.
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Why we do not publish a per-gram price list.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.
Before you decide anything, send a few clear photos of your gold or silver on WhatsApp, or call. You will get a rough estimate and a straight answer about hallmarks, the postal cover, the XRF assay or the free return if you decline. None of it commits you to posting.
GoldPaid is a UK-wide postal gold and silver buying service with no branches. Our main page on selling gold by post in the UK sets out the label, the XRF test, the written offer and the payment in one place.
Masham is a small Wensleydale market town whose broad market square has long served the surrounding dale farmland. Quiet and rural, it sits in an unhurried corner of North Yorkshire. Selling from here is postal and UK-wide, so there is no shop to visit.
If you decline, the items come back free of charge by tracked, signed-for post. There is no fee for saying no, no second call to talk you round, and the written offer stays yours to keep.
Sell gold by post from North Yorkshire lists the North Yorkshire town pages GoldPaid publishes. The nearest other GoldPaid county pages are Cumbria, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire, on the same postal-first process.
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.
A clear set of photos of your gold or silver is enough for a useful first look. Lay items flat in good light and get close to any small stamps.
Every offer is measured: confirmed purity from an XRF assay, accurate weight, and the live precious-metal market on the day we test, with our margin already inside the figure. You read each figure in a written, itemised breakdown before you decide anything. For how the market moves and what it means for selling by post, see the gold price and selling by post and the silver price and selling by post.
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.
A parcel posted from Masham travels on the Royal Mail HG postcode network, with the same handling from the town centre or the wider North Yorkshire district. Sent by Special Delivery it normally reaches our address the next working morning.
Mixed-carat parcels need no sorting first. We separate 9, 18 and 22 carat items by direct XRF measurement rather than relying on the stamps, weigh each on its own, and value every carat on its own measured purity and weight.
Take a photograph of the Post Office receipt before you leave. The thirteen-character tracking number on it is the document that links your parcel to the consignment and follows it all the way to our door.
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 costs you nothing. If the written offer does not suit you, say so, and your items come straight back by tracked, signed-for Royal Mail Special Delivery at our expense. No fee, no questions, no chasing. See what happens if I decline the offer for the step by step.
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.
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.
Selling from Masham takes the same form whatever your reason for it. Whatever you have, it is valued the same way: each item XRF-tested, weighed, and written up before you decide anything.
Not sure which fits? Send a photo on WhatsApp and we will tell you what you have, with no obligation to go further.
Absolutely. A WhatsApp photo is the first step we recommend for anyone in Masham. It lets us talk you through the items and the process before a label is ever issued, with nothing leaving your home.
From Masham, Special Delivery normally reaches us the next working morning. The assay, the weighing and the written offer normally all happen on the day of arrival, and if you accept the figure we aim to send your bank transfer by Faster Payments within one working hour of acceptance.
Of course. The first step is a question, not a parcel. Send a WhatsApp message or call with any concern, and post only once you have the answers you want.
The postage is Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed, tracked the whole way and signed for. Your parcel travels on Royal Mail Special Delivery, and Royal Mail cover may be available up to £2,500 depending on the postal method and cover level used; flag higher-value items in WhatsApp before you post and we will confirm the right option.
Nothing happens to your items if you decline. They are posted straight back, free of charge, by tracked and signed-for Royal Mail. No fee, no pressure, no obligation and no follow-up.
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.
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. There is no obligation at any stage; the only commitment is your decision to accept a written offer once you have seen it. Free tracked return if you decline.
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.