Selling Your Jewellery In Devon

If you are looking for a company which engages in jewellery buying in Devon, you really want to look for the small individual - often family run – jewellers. If you go instead to the big chains, you will find that they don’t usually buy individual pieces because their managers are just that – managers – and their bosses will not trust them to spend their money, even though they may be skilled jewellers. 

After all, as far as the directors of these big chains are concerned, their local manager could make a big mistake and pay far too much for a ring or a necklace – and remember that these are not necessarily small purchases: we could be talking in terms of many thousands. However, the small individual shop that undertakes jewellery buying in Devon is run by the owner and he or she will have a skill set and the knowledge to value a piece and pay what it is worth, obviously allowing for a reasonable mark-up.

If the owner should make a mistake and over-value the piece, therefore paying too much for it, then that’s his or her hard luck. They could be left with a piece that will take ages to sell, or they could just have to cut their losses and sell it for less than originally planned. The big chains won’t take that risk, but an individual owner will.

So yes, for jewellery buying in Devon you need a small jewellery shop, or perhaps a very small chain of two or three shops, where the owner is his or her own boss and can take a grown-up decision.

To be sure, a jeweller will be able to grade the stones in a ring, necklace, or brooch, which is a good part of the value, but ultimately the value of an individual unique piece of jewellery is only what another customer is prepared to pay for it. This is where the skill and knowledge of a jeweller comes into play – that plus his or her instinct. It is a question of looking at a piece and calculating what it can be sold for, and then offering a price accordingly. If the seller believes it is worth more, he can always reject the offer and go elsewhere.