What we buy

Gold.

Every karat from 8K to 24K. Scrap, bench stock, broken jewellery and dental, in whatever state it came off the bench in.

Mixed lots are normal. They are separated and weighed by grade on the call, before anything is set against your quote.

A cast gold bar, photographed against a plain ground.
A tangled heap of yellow gold chains in mixed link styles, some with broken links and missing clasps.
Broken chain
Four small piles of scrap gold jewellery set apart from each other, each pile a different shade of yellow.
Sorted by karat

The grades we quote.

All seventeen. A dealer holding 11K or 13K should be able to find it on the list rather than work out which way it is going to be rounded.

A scale showing every karat from 8K to 24K, each marked separately, so no karat is rounded into a band. 8K 9K 10K 11K 12K 13K 14K 15K 16K 17K 18K 19K 20K 21K 22K 23K 24K Every karat has its own rung. Nothing is rounded into a band.
Every karat, eight through twenty-four
  • 8K
  • 9K
  • 10K
  • 11K
  • 12K
  • 13K
  • 14K
  • 15K
  • 16K
  • 17K
  • 18K
  • 19K
  • 20K
  • 21K
  • 22K
  • 23K
  • 24K

A karat mark is where the quote starts, not where it ends. What you are paid on is what the lot tests at, and you watch it test.

How it is assayed on arrival.

The video call is booked before the package is opened. The lot is weighed in front of you, then read on XRF, with the instrument and its display in shot. One reading, on every lot, and you watch it taken.

Plated and gold-filled material is not bought at all. It is refused. It is separated out on the call while you watch it come out, and it goes back to you only if you ask for it on that call.

A lot arrives and splits two ways: solid karat gold is read on XRF and bought, while plated and gold-filled material is separated out and refused. A lot arrives Solid karat, 8K to 24K Read on XRF while you watch, and bought on that reading. Plated and gold-filled Refused. Separated out on the call, and you see it come out.
What is bought, and what is refused

Nothing is agreed until you have seen the reading.

What to expect.

Your unit
Weigh it in grams, pennyweight or troy ounces, whichever you weigh in. Every figure that comes back is in the same unit, because that is the one you can check.
The lock
Closing holds your figure. The price you locked is the price you are paid.
Carriage
Close, and we send you an insured container to fill. Insured both ways, at our cost. Cover starts at the first carrier scan, and from that scan the risk is ours.
Settlement
Same day, once the lot is assayed.

Also buying silver and platinum at the same counter.

Close the price, fill the insured container we send and hand it to the carrier where cover starts, it arrives, the assay runs on video, and you are paid the same day. 1 Close the price 2 Carrier scan cover starts 3 Arrives 4 Assay on video 5 Paid same day
From closing to settlement

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