We buy gold, silver and platinum · by mail · nationwide
Sell your gold for what the metal is worth.
Broken chains, single earrings, class rings, sterling flatware, coins and bullion. Every piece is valued on the precious metal inside it, at the day’s spot price. We send you the weights and the tests along with the offer, so it is a number you can check and put next to anybody else’s.
The kit is free and insured both ways. No obligation, and we pay the return shipping if you say no.
Example offer
Order IGS-7K3M2Q
- Two rope chains14K, 21.4 g gross, 1.1 g stone$968
- Class ring10K, 9.8 g gross, 1.4 g stone$246
- Sterling flatware, 34 pieces.925, 612 g gross$331
Illustration only. Your offer depends on the weight, purity and metal of what you actually send, and on the metal price the day we quote you.
Every offer shows the weight, the purity test and the metal price it was worked out from.
Insured both directions
Hand it to a staffed FedEx counter and keep the receipt, and it is covered from that scan until it reaches us, and on the way back.
Offer in about a day
Most packages are weighed, tested and quoted within 24 hours of arriving.
Paid the day you accept
Accept before 3pm Eastern on a business day and the transfer goes out the same day, unless we still have to verify something.
Opened on camera
Every package is recorded from seal to scale. You get the video on your tracking page.
The whole process
Three steps, about a week.
Most of the week is the post office. The part that involves us usually takes a day.
- 01
Ask for a kit
Tell us roughly what you have. A person reads every request, usually the same day, and posts a padded mailer with a prepaid insured FedEx label already inside.
Nothing to print. Nothing to pay.
- 02
Send your items
Put everything in, seal it, and hand it to any FedEx counter or drop box. You get a text the moment it scans, and again the moment it reaches our counter.
Insured from the second it is scanned.
- 03
See the offer, decide
We weigh each piece, test its purity, and put the whole breakdown on your tracking page, with the video of us opening the package. You have 48 hours to answer, and we requote free after that. Accept and the money goes out. Decline and your metal comes back free.
No haggling. No pressure. No fee either way.
What we buy
Broken counts. Single earrings count.
Condition does not matter, because everything is valued on its metal content. A snapped chain is worth the same per gram as an unbroken one.
See the full listChains
Broken counts. Same rate per gram.
Rings
Stones deducted and returned.
Odd earrings
The lone survivor of a pair.
Sterling
Flatware is heavier than it looks.
Coins
Pre-1965 US, 90 percent silver.
Bars
Bullion and generic rounds.
Watch cases
The case, not the movement.
Dental gold
Send it with the tooth attached.
An honest comparison
The three ways to sell, side by side.
A local shop pays you today and you can look them in the eye. That is worth something. Here is where the differences actually are.
| Us | Local shop | Other mail-in | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paid on verified metal content, not a flat scrap rate | Yes | Sometimes | Sometimes |
| You see every weight and purity test | Yes | No | Sometimes |
| An offer without haggling | Yes | No | Yes |
| Shipping insured in both directions | Yes | n/a | One way |
| Free return if you decline | Yes | n/a | Sometimes |
| Payment goes out the day you accept | Yes | Yes | No |
| The package is opened on camera | Yes | No | No |
In their words
Compare the number, not the promises.
We publish every weight, every purity test and the metal price we worked from, including the deductions that make the number smaller. That is what lets you put our offer next to anybody else’s and see which one is actually bigger.
The offer was less than the melt number I found online, but they showed me exactly why, and it was still more than the two shops near me.
Declined the offer, got everything back three days later, no charge, no argument. That is the only reason I called them again in March.
I sent a box of my mother's things expecting the runaround. They filmed the whole thing and the weights matched what I had written down.
Today’s metal prices
Work out the metal content yourself.
Our calculators show what the pure metal in a piece is worth at today’s spot price. That is the number every buyer starts from, including us, and it is the only fair way to compare two offers.
- Gold
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- per troy ounce
- Silver
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- per troy ounce
- Platinum
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- per troy ounce
Nothing. The mailer is free, the postage out to you is paid, and the return label inside is prepaid and insured. There is no fee for asking, and no fee if you look at a real offer and decide not to sell. The one exception is in the terms and we would rather you heard it here: if what arrives turns out to be counterfeit, plated, or base metal, you pay the return postage. Genuine metal always comes back free.
No. You see the full itemised offer before you agree to anything. If you decline, we pack everything exactly as it arrived and ship it back insured at our cost. There is no restocking fee and no return shipping charge. Two things do not come back on those terms: anything we valued at zero because it is not precious metal, and anything under a law enforcement hold. Both are in the terms.
We weigh each piece, deduct any stones or non-metal parts, and test the purity. That gives the actual precious metal content in grams. The offer is based on that content and the metal price on the day we quote you. Every one of those numbers is on your tracking page, so you can check the arithmetic.
Most people have money in their account within a week of asking for a kit. The kit takes two to three days to reach you, the return trip is FedEx 2Day, and we usually finish the evaluation within a day of the package landing.
Find out what it is actually worth.
The kit is free, the shipping is insured both ways, and there is nothing to sign until you have seen the offer.