Why Can't I Find These Suckers?

What are you talking about? Who were you calling?

It seems that there are still good buys from people who want to sell there gold or silver. Case in fact: women sold her unwanted gold and silver jewelry to gold and silver buyers who were at the Ramada inn. Her husband had been a coin collector and before he died told her what some of his coins were worth. She took the offers on the jewelry but they would not give her what she wanted for the coins. She called us as fellow coin collectors who new her husband. The prices were at least 5 years old. She sold us all we could afford and gave us the rest on a pay up when you can. What we bought was very collectible. Some like the modern commemorative were bought for 20% less than gold or silver value. She was happy, I was happy until I had to explain to my wife the withdrawal from our bank account. I am in the dog house but happy. LOL

Depends entirely on your local market. If a jeweler has an in-house bench jeweler, it'll be cheaper than if they send it out to one who works for the trade.

Pawn shops often have bench jewelers to repair stuff they buy that's much better than scrap. If so, downsizing is no big deal.

I'd say $30 is a reasonable price for this five-minute job, maybe as little as ten bucks and he keeps the gold.