Gold for Scrap
Exchange house in the mall buys out rings and earrings for melting

Wedding rings, aunt’s earrings and grandma’s ring go for scrap. Young mothers and pensioners line up in front of off-hand gold market in one of the Sofia malls. The employees buy a gram of gold at 44 leva - 10 leva more than in pawn shops. Every week we melt jewellery scrap in 24 carat ingots, merchants explain. Part of the golden bars is sold in Bulgaria and the other part is exported.
There is a great demand for ingots in the banks, which offer to their clients gold as investment. The price of gold made an impressive 30% jump last year, but experts foresee new record of 1.500 dollars per troy ounce in this summer. However, financiers are warning that the precious metal rocketing price might turn out to be just another soap bubble.

they are doing this in the uk, through the post. turns out they are not giving you anywhere near the going price. you can check daily for the price of gold and a jewelers is probably a better deal.

starlite wrote:

they are doing this in the uk, through the post. turns out they are not giving you anywhere near the going price. you can check daily for the price of gold and a jewelers is probably a better deal.

There are now quite a few people operating out of cars in BG now, just like there were in Russia in the 90's - sign of an emerging economy. If you believe you get a good deal from these people, you really need to think again