Selling silver jewellery - eBay or...?

mumonashoestring

I have several coin bags full of silver rings and earrings plus a few bracelets from my student, hippy-goth, dripping in silver phase that don't really get a lok in now that I spend my days changing nappies and cleaning out the chickens

To sell them and get the best price (they vary in size, quality and value), should I just wait for the next free listings day on eBay, or am I missing a trick? Is there somewhere better that I should be considering?

soolin

Assuming these are properly hallmarked items I would either try your local jewellers to see if they will buy, or else a bricks and mortar auction house.

I don't think I owuld sell real silver on ebay as there are too many people selling white metal as 'silver' that your items might be over looked.

Crowqueen

Or thought of as fake.

RHemmings

Initially I thought "couldn't the OP just list on ebay on a free listing day with the starting bid set at the minimum that they're prepared to accept".

Then I remembered the swaparoo scam. On ebay wouldn't the OP be risking people buying the genuine items, claiming SNAD, and then returning cheap fakes?

Crowqueen

It's certainly the right time to consider that risk, but it's inherent in any internet transaction. Amazon for instance have a very tight returns policy which they are rolling out to most of their sellers very soon, so that's possible on quite a number of sites.

Offline, where the sale is face to face, there is little risk of that.

mumonashoestring

RHemmings wrote: »

Initially I thought "couldn't the OP just list on ebay on a free listing day with the starting bid set at the minimum that they're prepared to accept".

Then I remembered the swaparoo scam. On ebay wouldn't the OP be risking people buying the genuine items, claiming SNAD, and then returning cheap fakes?

So glad I asked on here, I'd never heard of this!

I might look into taking them to a valuation day at the local auction house in that case. As they're all hallmarked silver I don't really want them getting mistaken for cheapo white metal tat

imho

You could always sell the silver to Hatton Gardens http://www.hattongardenmetals.com/.
It will be scrap value.There is a huge thread on here somewhere with people experience of them and everyone rates them.
Just weigh on kitchen digital scale and see how much your get on the above web site.You wont get anything for any stones in the jewellery so you might as well take out any stones.

jazzyjones

there are many others websites where you can sell your jewellery.
your jewellery should be properly hall marked.bespoke jewellery London

forgotmyname

I had a quick look on ebay for some silver necklaces a while back.

Some obviously fake items on there and some that just made me wonder.

If you but a 3/4 oz chain it weighs 3/4oz right???

So why would a hollow 3/4oz chain feel lightweight?

How do you get a solid 3/4oz and a hollow 3/4oz chain of exactly the same dimensions?

It just wasnt worth the effort or risk.

vuvuzela

yuanbo wrote: »

how about on ebay or amozon?

How about not building a post count that's enough to start spamming links here ?

Lifeforms

If you liked them to begin with, and would like to keep them as some sort of memory of those days, have you considered having them melted down and made into something, or just one thing, that you could wear?
It might cost you more money to pay someone to do that, but depending on what you have, maybe a little photo frame typed necklace for your child.
An independent jeweller would be able to do such a thing, if it interested you.

We did it with Gold junky bits, broken gold jewellery etc, of my grandad/grandmum's era, that none of us could use, but didn't want to throw away because of sentimental, and physical value. So my mum had it made into a ring. Jeweller basically took some of the extra gold as payment. But he also said he could do silver in this fashion too.