Cashing In On Fashion: How To Get Cash For Your Old, Broken, Or Unwanted Jewelry

Published Monday March 29 2010

Fashion trends come and go and we invest in wardrobe and jewelry to keep up with those fashion trends. Over time, our jewelry may become out of date and unfashionable. That doesn't mean it's worthless! The same goes for broken jewelry or jewelry you simply don't want to wear anymore.

If you've invested in jewelry that you no longer wear, you might think the money is gone. But it's not! You can get money for jewelry that you don't want or need anymore!

It used to be that if you wanted to sell your gold, silver, or platinum jewelry, you would have to go to a pawn shop and take whatever they gave you (and it wouldn't be very much). You'd be out a lot of money, plus there's the travel time, too. And pawn shops aren't always in the most respectable neighborhoods.

There is a far more convenient way to get cash for jewelry that you don't want.
You see, pawn shops are just "middlemen". They buy your gold, silver, or platinum cheap and make their money by marking it up and selling it to someone else. What you need to do, instead, is eliminate the middleman and sell your gold directly to a gold refiner. Here's why:

Cash for gold reason #1: Gold refiners pay more cash for gold
Gold refiners make their money in a different way: They refine your gold and sell a purer form (or a different form) to someone else. In other words, they can usually pay substantially more for gold than you would get from a pawn shop.

Cash for gold reason #2: Gold refiners know what they are doing
Pawn shops have an important role to play in the economy, but pawn brokers need to know a little bit about a lot of things: Guitars, crystal, antiques, gold, silver, platinum, coins, collectibles, you name it. Gold refiners, on the other hand, specialize in gold and other precious metals. So when they analyze your gold and assign a value for it, they have their finger on the pulse of the precious metals market.

 Cash for gold reason #3: Gold refiners are far more convenient
Although you can go into a pawn shop to trade in your gold, you have to drive your car there, find a parking spot, and go into the store. That takes precious time out of your day. Instead, some gold refiners offer a mail-in service: You send them your gold, they send you a check. It's that easy.

 Nothing could be easier than working with a gold refiner who offers cash for gold and other precious metals.

 So check your jewelry box, check between the cushions on your couch, check your junk drawer. You could have cash in there' in the form of gold!

Paul J Coulter

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