Selling wedding ring

[lAmBoY]

Divorced...seeks amp upgrade

Dont want to go down the ebay route as I have a decent platinum ring by Christian Baur that I wouild like to sell. Retail today is almost £2k but that is new from a jewellers.

Any ideas on how best to sell? Should I bother getting it polished? Plat is very easily scratched.
Cheers.

 

[gintonic]

weigh it and get the best scrap value you can - for an easy sale

https://www.gold.co.uk/scrap-platinum-prices/

 

[Woodface]

It won’t be worth any more than scrap value

 

[billo]

Can you not see if the ex wants it? Just asking

 

[lAmBoY]

Can you not see if the ex wants it? Just asking

Id rather not poke the tiger

 

[gintonic]

poke the tiger

that might be your problem

 

[lAmBoY]

Looks like the scrappage route. It has a line of other material running through the center (darker gold?),so I am not sure if the weight would be accurate.

Many thanks anyway!

 

[Darren L]

Take it too a Jewellery shop that deals in 2nd jewellery, as above the probably won't give you much more than scrap value but may be worth a try.

 

[MikeMA]

The retail mark up on jewelry is typically 300% to 400% so, unless you have something very special, scrap is the way to go, as @gintonic and @Woodface have said. Looking on the bright side, scrap values are currently quite high.

 

[Woodface]

The retail mark up on jewelry is typically 300% to 400% so, unless you have something very special, scrap is the way to go, as @gintonic and @Woodface have said. Looking on the bright side, scrap values are currently quite high.

Would anyone want a second hand wedding ring?

 

[Darren L]

Or take it to a Pawn shop and never go back ?

 

[sean99]

Would anyone want a second hand wedding ring?

Second hand spouses seem to sell.

“Second marriages- a triumph of hope over experience”

 

[Michael J]

Or take it to a Pawn shop and never go back ?

They'll typically offer melt value minus a few per cent, and then sell it for melt value plus a few per cent. It's what they do.

 

[Michael J]

Looks like the scrappage route. It has a line of other material running through the center (darker gold?),so I am not sure if the weight would be accurate.

Many thanks anyway!

Platinum is currently about half the value of gold, per unit weight, and very slightly heavier/denser. Just weigh it accurately and you will have a good idea of current scrap/melt value. Any decent pawnbroker or jeweller will do that for free, and ought to be able to weigh it to 1/100th of a gramme.

 

[slavedata]

You could stick it in the local auction but I am shocked by how little jewellery makes.

 

[Joe P]

Donate it to Mr. Spock?

I'm sorry to hear about the divorce, IAm Boy. I hope better times are ahead.

Joe

 

[Thorn]

Would anyone want a second hand wedding ring?

My fiancée spotted a wedding ring that she liked among the second-hand offerings in a jeweller's window. She bought it, and will have been wearing it for forty years come Sunday.

 

[Barrymagrec]

My fiancée spotted a wedding ring that she liked among the second-hand offerings in a jeweller's window. She bought it, and will have been wearing it for forty years come Sunday.

It`s about time you married her then.

 

[twotone]

I bought a replacement wedding ring in Spain at a market (silver) around 2003, cost me €6 I think or thereabouts anyway it lasted for years but I had to replace it about two years ago so I bought another silver one online for about £20 delivered, I think a similar platinum wedding ring at the time (3mm) was about £120 or so.

My original gold wedding ring from 40 years ago was either lost or horrible or both, it was huge as in wide, probably okay at the time though.

 

[Woodface]

My fiancée spotted a wedding ring that she liked among the second-hand offerings in a jeweller's window. She bought it, and will have been wearing it for forty years come Sunday.

My wife bought her own engagement ring for £30.