Selling silver jewellery - eBay or...?

vuvuzela

Lifeforms wrote: »

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.

For gold, this would be worthwhile, for silver (when I checked a few weeks ago as I also had this idea), it would be economically unviable to do it - the cost of the silversmithing far far outweighed the intrinsic value of the metal.

buggritt

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?

Well that would apply to anything you sold for a decent amount.
Nothing reasonably valuable would ever be listed on ebay.