Rings, tennis bracelets, studs, pendants. Priced by someone who buys at wholesale every week and will show you how the number was reached.
Carat, colour, clarity and cut assessed while you watch, with the loupe handed over. If there is a certificate, we start there.
Because I sell to independent jewelry stores as well as retail, I price against what the stone will actually move for — not a formula.
A written offer, good for a stated period. Take it to two other buyers. Genuinely.
This is the part most buyers avoid saying out loud, so here it is. You will not be offered what you paid at retail. A retail price includes the store, the staff, the marketing and the margin. When you sell, all of that is gone.
What you should expect is a fair wholesale number — what the piece genuinely trades for between people in the trade, minus a working margin. On a well-graded natural stone that is usually a meaningful sum. On a lab-grown stone bought recently it will be considerably less, because lab-grown prices have fallen and the market prices to today.
If your appraisal says one number and my offer is lower, that is not a trick. An insurance appraisal is replacement-at-retail value, which is the highest of several legitimate numbers for the same ring. I will walk you through the difference.
A GIA or IGI certificate, the original receipt, or an appraisal all speed things up and usually raise the number, because they remove uncertainty. If you have none of it, that is fine — most people do not.
By appointment at 7738-B Madison Boulevard, Suite 104, serving buyers across North Alabama. A full showroom for watches and diamonds opens at 7003 Cabela Drive NW in November 2026.
An appraisal is usually replacement value at retail — what it would cost to buy new. Selling is the opposite side of that transaction. Both numbers are real; they answer different questions.
Yes, but expect a lower number. Lab-grown prices have dropped substantially and resale reflects that.
Yes. Mountings, broken chains and odd earrings all have metal value and I will weigh and quote them.
No. You get a written offer and time to shop it.
Trade-in against a new piece usually nets you more than an outright sale. Worth asking about.
