What we buy · Gold Jewelry
Selling Gold Jewelry in Fort Lauderdale
Broken chains, single earrings, rings from a marriage that ended, a parent's estate. Most gold that gets sold was never going to be worn again, and it has been sitting in a drawer earning nothing.
No appointment needed. No obligation to sell.
Live metal market
This is the market your offer is calculated against — not a chart printed last week. Your items are tested and weighed at the counter, and the arithmetic is done in front of you.
Fort Lauderdale
3562 N Ocean Blvd, Suite B
Galt Ocean Mile
Walk in
Mon–Fri 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
No appointment needed
2004
Buying gold in Broward County since
1983
Family owned and buying in Broward since
87,000+
Items sold on eBay at a 100% rating
Live
Spot pricing, tested and weighed in front of you
Before you sell
What to watch out for
The most common mistake is not knowing the karat. 10k, 14k and 18k look identical to most people and are worth very different amounts by weight. A buyer who tests out of sight can call your 18k piece 14k and you would have no way to know. Ours is tested in front of you.
At the counter
How this one is valued
Jewelry is assessed piece by piece, not as a pile. Each item gets a karat test, acid on a small filed spot or XRF, because a stamp can be worn, wrong, or added by somebody who was not the maker. Chains are checked at the clasp as well as the body, since clasps and solder joins are often a lower grade than the piece they hold. Stones, spring mechanisms and steel pins come off the weight before any arithmetic runs. How that arithmetic works is set out on our page on what your gold is worth.
How we handle it
- Karat tested at the counter — acid or XRF, with you watching.
- Weighed on a certified scale you can read.
- Priced against live spot at that moment, not a printed sheet.
- Stones, clasps and non-gold parts identified and excluded from the weight rather than quietly included.
Said plainly
When it is worth more than the metal
Sometimes, and the tell is usually a signature. A maker's mark from a house with a live secondary market, Tiffany, Cartier, Bulgari, David Yurman, can carry a piece well past what its metal weighs. So can period work: Deco settings, hand engraving, intact Victorian pieces. An original box or receipt helps. When we see one of those we say so, and the honest advice is a jewelry dealer or an auction house rather than us. A plain 14k rope chain has no such story. That one is metal.
What not to do
Before you bring it in
Do not take pieces to a jeweler to have stones removed first. You pay for that labor, and we take stones out and hand them back at no charge. Do not cut chains into sections or separate links, because a whole chain weighs what its parts weigh and cutting only slows the testing down. Leave the drawer intact: single earrings, bent bangles, clasps with no chain attached. An insurance appraisal is a replacement-cost document rather than a resale figure, so bring it if you have one, but expect the numbers to differ.
Bringing it in
Bring everything, including pieces you assume are worthless. Single earrings, broken clasps, bent bangles — none of that matters, because it is being valued as metal. Sort nothing beforehand; we test as we go.
The market right now
These are live spot prices per troy ounce. They are the starting point for the arithmetic, not the offer — see what your gold is worthfor how a counter price is actually built.
Jewelry is quoted per gram, and separately for each karat grade, so a mixed handful produces several weights rather than one. Ask any buyer which unit a number is in before you compare it with ours. A price per pennyweight is a little over one and a half times the same offer per gram, and on a handwritten slip the two look alike.
FAQ
Common questions
- Do I need to know the karat?
- No. We test it in front of you. If a piece is unmarked we test it the same way.
- What about stones?
- Stones are not gold and are not paid for as gold. We identify them and can usually remove and return them.
- Is broken jewelry worth less?
- No. It is valued on metal content, so condition is irrelevant.
- What do I need to bring?
- Valid government-issued photo ID. Florida law requires it for precious metals transactions.
Areas served
Where our sellers come from
Our counter
Galt Ocean Mile
Our Fort Lauderdale counter is on this stretch of North Ocean Boulevard. For the oceanfront towers here it is a walk, and estate jewelry from these buildings is a large part of what crosses the counter.
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5 min
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
Minutes north on A1A. A older, settled population means estate lots rather than one-off pieces — often a full box after a house is cleared.
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6 min
Coral Ridge
Six minutes south along Federal or Bayview. Many Coral Ridge sellers are downsizing rather than liquidating, which usually means sorted, well-kept pieces.
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9 min
Oakland Park
Straight west on Oakland Park Boulevard, and the easiest approach during season when A1A backs up.
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12 min
Wilton Manors
A short run inland. We see a lot of watch and designer-piece questions from here, where the brand often matters more than the metal.
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13 min
Downtown Fort Lauderdale
The Las Olas and downtown corridor. Convenient at lunchtime, and the reason we hold weekday hours rather than weekend-only.
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We also buy
Gold Coins & Bullion
Eagles, Maples, Krugerrands and refiner bars verified while you wait, with anything worth more than melt flagged first.
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Silver
Bars, rounds, junk coin and sterling flatware tested piece by piece, so a genuine set never leaves valued as plate.
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Estate & Inherited Metal
Bring the box unsorted. Everything is separated and valued item by item, with a written breakdown for the family.
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Get a number
Find out what it is actually worth.
Bring it in, or email a few photos first. Either way you get a real figure and no pressure to take it.
Bring valid government-issued photo ID. Florida law requires it for every purchase.