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If someone ever tells you diamonds are rare and make a great investment for the future, walk away. This is one of the greatest marketing myths of modern times, and it has continued for decades due to the amazingly successful ability of one company to control a worldwide monopoly on the international value of diamonds. […]

There’s a pretty predictable pattern that merchandising for anime and youth-oriented movies in Japan follows. New hits get inexpensive trinkets, at a price point where kids can purchase them with their allowance. After a decade or two, higher-quality, items start to show up, like Sailor Moon jewelry and Gundam cars, which are priced more in line with what the franchise’s nostalgic and […]

Being one of the most prolific gold coins issued by the British Empire in history, the gold sovereign can claim the title of being one of the world’s greatest international forms of currency. The Greeks and Romans hold title to their currency being international earlier in time, and so do the Chinese, but the British […]

Justin Bieber and Adidas Pop singer Justin Bieber recently inked a deal with shoemaker Adidas to promote a line of shoes from the company and sent his fans on an Internet-based golden sneaker hunt. This information was posted on the Adidas website several months ago, so we are not certain of the status of the […]

With gold at $1,600 per ounce, that works out to about $50 per gram and it does not take much to get to more than a few grams of gold. If you have some jewellery, gold coins or gold bars at the back of a drawer or locked in your safe, you just need to […]

At Gold Smart, we welcome customers to price compare, as time and again they will come back and sell to the company that has the best services and prices. However, companies have a legal obligation under section 9 of the Fair Trading Act 1986 not to be misleading when comparing prices. It came to our […]

Many customers in Christchurch found they have jewellery that they don’t wear, needing repair or they don’t even remember they have. An easy way to earn some extra cash is to have a clean-up around the house gathering gold and silver items not in use anymore. We are constantly buying from customers in Christchurch. Our […]

An easy way to earn some extra cash is to have a clean-up around the house gathering gold and silver items not in use anymore. Although we love meeting our customers at our head office in Auckland, we know that sometimes this is not always possible. For customers looking to sell gold in Tauranga, we […]

We love meeting our customers. They’re the reason why we enjoy what we do, and it also brings great satisfaction providing excellent rates to anyone who visits Gold Smart to sell gold and/or silver. You are most welcome to meet with us in person at our Auckland offices. We guarantee a pleasurable experience and you […]

As of the writing of this article at the beginning of 2021, gold is creeping back up to $1,850 USD/oz and silver is meandering around $24.80/oz. However, to really get a good feeling about what this means, in 2016 when the markets worldwide returned to some stability, gold was at $1,100/oz. And its silver cousin […]

A gold nugget is a naturally occurring piece of native gold. Watercourses often concentrate nuggets and finer gold in placers. Nuggets are recovered by placer mining, but they are also found in residual deposits where the gold-bearing veins or lodes are weathered. Nuggets are also found in the tailings piles of previous mining operations, especially […]

With Christmas fast approaching, many of us have already started making plans for the holidays – where to go, what to do, how to organise gifts for everyone, and so on… It can be an exciting time; a time of sharing, gatherings with family and friends, but at the same time it can be quite […]