Competing offers for your precious metal scrap
Describe what you have. Approved refiners and dealers bid for 24 hours, and you choose whether to accept the highest offer. The buyer pays you directly.
No fee to sellersBuyers pay Melt Exchange. You pay nothing.
Your identity stays privateBuyers see materials and weights. Your email is shared only after you accept a final price.
You decideYou are never obliged to accept an offer or a revised price.
How it works
1Describe your lotPick the metal, enter the weight, add three photos and your email, and see the range buyers typically offer. Confirm your email from the link we send, and bidding opens.
2Buyers bid for 24 hoursApproved refiners and dealers see the materials and weights. They compete, and the highest bid wins.
3Talk to the top bidder privatelyYou mail the lot by Registered Mail and track it on the site. Your email stays private until you accept the buyer's final price after testing. Then the buyer pays you directly.
What we take
Gold, silver, platinum and palladium in these forms.
- Jewelry
- Dental scrap
- Coins and bars
- Flatware
- Electrical contacts
- Brazing alloy
- Paste and film
- Catalyst ceramic, priced by assay
Before you list
See every step
From your first entry to the buyer's payment, and what happens if the test comes in lower.
How it worksWho it is for
Sellers
Scrap holders, jewelers, dentists, and estates. Free to use, with no account needed.
Get offers for my scrapRefiners and dealers
Bid on lots from sellers who have confirmed their email, with a seller history summary and photos beside every lot. Buyers are approved after an intake review.
Buyer sign-in