Gold chains, a gold bangle and gold sovereign coins laid out on black velvet, ready to post to GoldPaid
UK gold and silver buyer by post

Sell gold and silver by post, anywhere in the UK. XRF-tested, written offer, free return if you decline.

Send a photo first. Post nothing until you have heard from us.

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Old chains, broken rings, inherited jewellery, scrap gold or silver, whatever is sitting in a drawer. Send it all in one parcel and get one written figure, itemised piece by piece. Ask first on WhatsApp for an indicative figure, no obligation, then post with a free tracked Royal Mail Special Delivery label when you are ready.

Free tracked postageXRF assayNo-obligation offerPostal only, UK-wide

Why GoldPaid

Ask first, post when you are ready

Send a photo on WhatsApp for an indicative figure. Your free Royal Mail Special Delivery label is tracked and signed for, with cover that may be available up to £2,500 depending on the postal method and cover level used.

Paid by Faster Payments after acceptance

Once you accept your written offer, we send payment by Faster Payments within one working hour.

Free tracked return if you decline

Decline the offer and we return everything by tracked Royal Mail Special Delivery, at no cost to you and with no follow-up pressure.

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Royal Mail cover may be available up to
£2,500
Unwanted gold jewellery: tangled fine gold chains and odd gold rings on a slate slab
Why GoldPaid is different from the big postal buyers

No pack to wait for. Your Royal Mail label, usually within 30 minutes during working hours.

There is no pack to wait for. Contact us and we send you a Royal Mail Special Delivery label, usually within 30 minutes during working hours, fully tracked, at no cost to you. Your parcel travels on Royal Mail Special Delivery, and Royal Mail cover may be available up to £2,500 depending on the postal method and cover level used.

  • Free Royal Mail Special Delivery label sent quickly
  • Your parcel travels on Royal Mail Special Delivery, and Royal Mail cover may be available up to £2,500 depending on the postal method and cover level used
  • No pack to wait for, use any padded envelope
  • Tracked and signed for, every step of the way
  • Items returned free if you decline our offer
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Where we work

Sell by post from anywhere in the UK

There is no shop and no counter, so nothing depends on where you live. The same process, the same indicative guide rates and the same free tracked label apply whether you are posting from a village or a city: sell gold by post anywhere in the UK sets out the whole route end to end. If you would rather read it in your own town’s terms, we keep a page for every UK town and county we serve by post, including a single page covering all of London if you want to sell gold by post from London.

Before any of that, it is worth knowing what the metal is doing: today’s gold price per gram is published here in absolute figures rather than as a percentage claim. And if you are sorting donated jewellery rather than your own, our programme for charity shops covers free training, bulk handling and payment to the charity’s own registered bank account.

We also buy

Gold and silver, plus watches, coins, medals, medallions & stamps.

Gold and silver are what we are known for. They are not all we buy. If you have watches, coins, medals, medallions or stamps sitting in a drawer, send a photo and we will value them for you free of charge and make a no-obligation offer.

  • Watches, old and new. Vintage, modern, branded and pocket watches, working or not
  • Coins. Collectable, commemorative and bullion coins, single pieces or whole collections
  • Medals. Military, service and commemorative medals and groups
  • Medallions. Gold, silver and base-metal medallions and tokens
  • Stamps. Stamp collections, albums and first-day covers

Watches, coins, medals, medallions and stamps are assessed individually, not by metal weight alone, so the fastest way to know what yours is worth is to send a clear photo first. No obligation either way, and if you decline we return everything free of charge.

Worn gold rings, broken chains and odd earrings of the kind sent in for assay
The process

Four steps. Complete transparency.

  1. 01Get your free postal labelWhatsApp us a photo, call, or ask a question first, with no obligation. We send you a free Royal Mail Special Delivery label, tracked and signed for, with cover that may be available up to £2,500 depending on the postal method and cover level used. No waiting for a pack to arrive.
  2. 02Wrap it up & post itUse any padded envelope. Drop it at the Post Office, tracked and signed for, every step of the way. No printer? We send a QR code for the counter.
  3. 03In-house XRF assayYour parcel is opened on camera and photographed as it arrives, so what we log is what you sent. Your items are then weighed on calibrated scales and tested by XRF spectrometry. You receive a written, itemised offer, purity, weight, the rate used and the figure.
  4. 04Accept or declineAccept and payment is sent by Faster Payments within one working hour of your acceptance. Decline and we return everything free of charge by tracked Royal Mail Special Delivery, signed for. No pressure, no fee.
Full process guide →
Quick indicative figure

What is my gold worth? Check it in about 30 seconds.

Pick the carat, type the total weight in grams, and you will see an indicative range. Not sure of the carat, or have no scales at home? Send a photo on WhatsApp instead and we will work it out with you. Rates last updated 9 September 2026.

Enter a weight above to see an indicative range. No scales at home? Send a photo on WhatsApp and we will give you a quick indicative figure, free and with no obligation.

Rather skip the chat? Get a free prepaid label by email

Two quick steps. The label arrives by email, usually within about 30 minutes during working hours. Requesting one commits you to nothing: you get a written offer after the XRF assay, and if you decline, your items come back to you free.

Two things worth knowing before you start, rather than after. Everyone sends a photo of a UK passport or driving licence, whatever the parcel is worth — it applies to every seller, so it is never a comment on you. And the parcel is handed in at a Post Office counter rather than dropped in a postbox: the receipt they give you is the proof of postage any compensation claim depends on.

Step 1: What are you sending, and how should the label arrive?

A rough description is plenty. This helps us confirm the right postal cover level before we issue the label. Skip if you would rather not say — the field is optional.

How would you like the label to arrive? Both are prepaid and both use Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed, so pick whichever is easier. The QR code is already selected because it needs no printer, and you can change your mind later — just message us before you post.

Choose how your prepaid label arrives

Step 2: Where do we send it?

Your label arrives by email whichever format you chose, so nothing is posted out to you. We need your address because it prints on the label itself, and because it is where anything you decline is returned. UK addresses only.

Needed so the label can be addressed to you.

Would you rather ask a question first, or send a photo? Message us on WhatsApp. It is the fastest way to get a sense of what something is worth before you post anything.

Today’s indicative guide rates

A rough idea of what your weight comes to, before we see it.

These are the per-gram rates our offers are built on, not a teaser figure we quietly discount later. Your written offer shows the exact rate used for each item after the XRF assay.

The published rates on this site are a guide to what your weight is worth at today’s rates. Your written offer follows an XRF assay of your specific items. Sovereigns, watches, signed pieces and collectables are valued individually by hand, and where a piece is worth more than its metal, the offer says so.

9ct gold
£37.17/g
14ct gold
£57.98/g
18ct gold
£74.34/g
22ct gold
£90.79/g
24ct gold
£99.02/g
Sterling silver
£1.19/g

A rough guide to what your weight comes to at our current rates, with our margin already inside the figure. Your written offer follows inspection. Rates shown were last reviewed on 9 September 2026.

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What people send us

Examples of items we buy.

Anonymised, illustrative examples of the item types GoldPaid buys. Offers vary with the live precious-metal price and are for illustration only.

An 18ct gold bracelet with chunky flat links, photographed on black velvet
18ct gold bracelet
A tangled bundle of 9ct gold curb chains on a slate slab
Bundle of 9ct chains
A 1oz silver Britannia coin standing on edge, showing the Britannia figure and the 2023 date
1oz silver Britannia coin
Gold dental crowns, inlays and bridgework with no tooth material attached
Dental gold crowns
An 18ct gold solitaire engagement ring set with a round brilliant diamond, on black velvet
18ct engagement ring
Close-up of a 1oz gold Krugerrand coin, obverse side showing the Paul Kruger portrait
Krugerrand 1oz
A 9ct gold oval locket with an engraved front, resting on its chain on black velvet
9ct gold locket & chain
Scrap gold for sale by post: worn gold rings, broken chains and a filigree pendant on a stone slab
Scrap gold lot
A broken 9ct gold bangle, twisted and split open at the join, on a slate slab
Broken 9ct bangle
An 18ct gold signet ring engraved with a family crest
18ct signet ring
A set of sterling silver flatware, forks, spoons and knives with hallmarks on the handles
Silver flatware set
A mixed lot of inherited gold jewellery: rings, chains, pendants and lockets
Probate jewellery lot

All examples are anonymised and illustrative. They are not customer reviews or verified offers. They reflect the live precious-metal price at time of assessment.

Royal Mail Special Delivery

Every parcel travels tracked and signed for, at no cost to you. Your parcel travels on Royal Mail Special Delivery, and Royal Mail cover may be available up to £2,500 depending on the postal method and cover level used.

XRF spectrometry

Our in-house XRF analyser gives a precise, scientific reading of every item’s metal composition. No estimates, no guesswork.

Documented assays

Every offer comes with a written breakdown: each item’s purity, weight, the gold rate used and how the final figure was calculated. You see it before you decide. If you decline, we keep the breakdown so you have it for your records.

Faster Payments

Accept your offer and payment is sent by Faster Payments, straight to your bank account.

Comparing buyers? Read the small print, not the headline rate

Headline percentages are easy to publish and hard to check. The comparison below sets four UK postal buyers’ own published terms beside each other — what each one says about fees, returns, minimum weights and how an offer can change after it has been made — quoting every figure as written and dating it, with the method for the percentages spelled out.

Before you post

Questions people ask before posting

Is it safe to send gold by post in the UK?

Posting gold is a routine, established process: jewellers, refiners and dealers move precious metals by Royal Mail every working day. Every parcel travels by Royal Mail Special Delivery, tracked and signed for. Your items remain yours and travel at your risk, so if a parcel is lost the remedy is a compensation claim to Royal Mail, made by you as the sender using your Post Office receipt. Your parcel travels on Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed, tracked and signed for. We agree the cover level with you on WhatsApp before the label is issued, and Royal Mail cover may be available up to £2,500 depending on the postal method and cover level used. If the lot is worth more than that, we send more than one label at no charge so each parcel sits within its own cover. Use a plain padded envelope and never write "gold" on the outside.

Can I ask a question before I send anything?

Yes, and most people do. Send a photo on WhatsApp, or call 07944 014111. We will tell you what we think the item is and give you an indicative figure. If it is not worth posting, we will say so. Any figure given before inspection is indicative only. The written offer comes after the XRF assay, and nothing is committed until you accept it. The line is answered 8am to 9pm, 7 days a week.

What happens if I decline the offer?

Your items are returned to you free of charge by tracked Royal Mail Special Delivery, signed for on delivery. No fee, no pressure, no obligation, and no follow-up calls trying to change your mind. The full process is on the what-happens-if-I-decline page.

How long does the whole process take?

Two to three working days from posting to payment is normal. Your prepaid label is usually with you within 30 minutes during working hours. Items are normally XRF-assayed the day they reach us. Payment is sent by Faster Payments within one working hour of your acceptance.

How is my final offer calculated?

Each item is weighed on calibrated scales and tested by XRF spectrometry to confirm purity. The figure is based on the live precious-metal market on the day of assay, the item weight, and any non-precious-metal components or stones. You see a written, itemised breakdown before you decide.

Do I need ID to sell gold by post?

Yes. We ask every seller for a photograph of UK photo ID, a passport or a driving licence, whatever the parcel is worth, and we tell you at the start rather than after your items have arrived. Because it applies to everyone, nobody need read the request as suspicion of them.

How does payment reach me?

By UK bank transfer (Faster Payments) to the account you nominate. Payment is sent by Faster Payments within one working hour of your acceptance.

Do you have a shop I can visit?

No. GoldPaid is a postal service covering the whole of the UK, so there are no branches and no shop counter. Everything is handled by WhatsApp, phone and Royal Mail Special Delivery. The address on your prepaid label is our office in Clifton, Bristol, so please ask for a label and post your items rather than calling in.

Not the question you had? The full GoldPaid FAQ covers the rest, from postal cover and ID checks to what happens if you decline the offer.

A photo, a written offer, your decision

Get a written offer, then decide

Send a photo on WhatsApp and ask anything you like. We answer honestly, and the free Royal Mail Special Delivery label only goes out when you ask for it.

Or call 07944 014111, 8am to 9pm, 7 days a week. Free prepaid label, usually sent within 30 minutes during working hours. Free tracked return if you decline. Faster Payments within one working hour of acceptance.