So glad I didn't sell gold!

[whoops]

Wow' good call! I think with jewelry its going to be really hard to make money on so always best to keep and enjoy it! I've never sold any jewelry before. Gold is ridiculous now. Chinese tradition is to give heavy gold bangles (wedding hand cuffs almost) as wedding presents... I told my family to save the money! It's way too expensive right now for jewelry I'll never wear again and never have the heart to sell.

But oppositely I've found myself purposely not wearing my gold bracelets. I feel like it grabs too much attention for me now that everyone knows gold prices are so high... The first time I wore it back from repair people actually noticed it... But they never did the other 15+ years I've had it on nonstop

 

[beachy10]

I sold a lot of YG when gold was low. Biggest regret!
I got nothing for it. Plus I would so wear the peices now If I had them. I was in a hate YG stage then and purged most of it.
Got verrrrrry little.

I would love to see your bangle! Please post pics.

Ugh same here. My mom gave me a ton of Tiffany and other desiger pieces and I just sold them all on eBay to buy a car. I thought yuck, I hate YG. Now it's all I wear. I did keep a few heavy pieces that didn't sell. Thank goodness I still have those.

 

[hn_tee]

I've never been a fan of yellow gold. But I felt I really. need to invest in some good pieces of jewelry recently. So before yellow gold prices soar up more ridiculously, I managed to convince DH to purchase 2 91.6% (don't know what its called, its almost as high as 24karat gold) solid gold bangles for me. One for my DD and another just incase for a future DD or to keep for myself.
I was really shocked when we were purchasing the yg at the jewelers when we saw exactly the same 24k yg that my mom has and it was retailing at S$10K! It was 5x more than the actual price she paid for about 8 years ago.

 

[skphotoimages]

Interesting fact:
In 2001 my husband bought my my first engagement ring. It was a 2mm white gold plain wedding band from Shane co.. He paid $29 (yes, seriously) Now, almost EXACTLY 10 years later, the same band costs $195 from Shane Co.

 

[chanel-girl]

My mother and I recently took a whole bunch of old yellow gold and old silver pieces that we know we would never wear, she had a TON of HUGE 80's yellow gold earrings and we took it to a local jewelery store that gave the highest quote and we did surprisingly well but you really need to take it to several places because the estimates were all over the place, a few offered only a small fraction of what we were paid for it! The jeweler we went to shops all the other jewelers to make sure they have the best gold trade in prices. None of this stuff was at all sentimental-those pieces, I would never sell...

 

[Lapis]

I've never been a fan of yellow gold. But I felt I really. need to invest in some good pieces of jewelry recently. So before yellow gold prices soar up more ridiculously, I managed to convince DH to purchase 2 91.6% (don't know what its called, its almost as high as 24karat gold) solid gold bangles for me. One for my DD and another just incase for a future DD or to keep for myself.
I was really shocked when we were purchasing the yg at the jewelers when we saw exactly the same 24k yg that my mom has and it was retailing at S$10K! It was 5x more than the actual price she paid for about 8 years ago.

So crazy but true in this market, my mom's custom guy quoted me for a smaller pair of bangles to a pair she had made in the 80's, yeah I'm NOT getting them 3k in the 80's for huge heavy gold bangles is almost 20k today!

Interesting fact:
In 2001 my husband bought my my first engagement ring. It was a 2mm white gold plain wedding band from Shane co.. He paid $29 (yes, seriously) Now, almost EXACTLY 10 years later, the same band costs $195 from Shane Co.

you made me curious, I checked the cheapie bands we exchanged, $249 for 1 today, I paid less than $100 for both in 03!