Men’s Jewelry

Added 4/12/2012

Advantages of Buying Men’s Jewelry in Pawn Shops

Men’s jewelry can be especially difficult to locate and purchase for reasonable prices today: After all, women always have so much jewelry designed particularly for them, and they have a wider selection much of the time. The really high quality men’s jewelry, which will be crafted from 14 karat gold, 18 karat gold, sterling silver, platinum, or other precious metals, can be hard to find if you want a large selection. Fortunately, pawn shops have been providing a wide selection and high quality jewelry options for men for years now — and the quality and selection continues to grow! Today you can find nearly any type of men’s jewelry you’re looking for at pawn shops, including cuff links, watches, necklaces, rings, and bracelets.

The Men’s jewelry in pawn shops has another advantage in addition to the high quality and the wide range of options: You can get the best possible prices at reputable pawn shops. Since pawn shops purchase used men’s jewelry from customers, they are able to offer the jewelry at much lower prices than the jewelry would cost brand new. In many cases the men’s jewelry you’ll buy will look just like new, but you will only have to pay prices of around half of the cost that you’d pay when buying brand new.

Looking for high quality men’s jewelry in pawn shops in the Phoenix area? Check out the superior selection and prices at Pawn1st. The seven Pawn1st stores are widely regarded as the number one jewelry buyers and pawn shops in the Phoenix area, and that reputation was partly built upon their sales of the top quality men’s jewelry and the lowest prices. Pawn1st has 7 valley pawn shops to serve you stop by one of our locations today!

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Women’s Jewelry in Pawn shops

Added 4/9/2012

Get the Best Prices on the Best Pieces!

Every woman loves jewelry, whether her tastes run to the super blingy or the understated — it’s the type of gift that you can never go wrong with. Of course, the only real problem for many people is the cost of high quality women’s jewelry — and when you buy jewelry from a jewelry store, a department store, or on many Internet websites, that cost can be very high indeed! Consider a new source for the beautiful high-end women’s jewelry that you want…Your local pawn shop can be an excellent place to buy jewelry of all types at great low prices!

You may be very surprised at the wide selection you will find when you do your jewelry shopping at a pawn shop. Gold jewelry, platinum jewelry, sterling silver jewelry, Native American jewelry, diamond jewelry, pearl jewelry pieces, and antique jewelry is all available at the quality pawn shops, and you might be even more surprised at the low prices you will find.

Pawn shops generally offer like-new women’s jewelry at rock bottom prices. Pawn1st is known as the number one Pawn shop in Phoenix for jewelry buyers due to their pricing: Pawn1st offers high quality women’s jewelry for as little as half of the retail cost. Additionally, Pawn1st pays more for gold jewelry, silver jewelry, platinum jewelry, diamond jewelry and watches . Come visit any of the seven Phoenix area Pawn1st locations today!

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Finding The Ideal Bullion & Gold Jewelry Buyers

Added 3/12/2012

Are you looking for Bullion & Gold Jewelry Buyers but don’t feel certain about how to find the right Gold Buyers, or which buyers will give you a fair deal? It is understandable that you might have a difficult time when you see how many gold buyers are out there — but not all jewelry buyers are created equal, and this is especially true in the case of gold jewelry buyers.

Did you know that the most highly qualified and properly trained gold jewelry buyers will always put your gold bullion and gold jewelry through a series of tests to determine the true value? Unfortunately, many of the gold buyers in the world today don’t do the necessary tests to determine true gold value — in fact, many of the pawn shops that buy gold don’t even know what these testing procedures are, let alone how to properly perform them to evaluate your gold bullion or gold jewelry.

Gold jewelry and gold bullion has to be properly tested and evaluated in order to know how much it is truly worth: Any gold buyers who don’t do the tests to determine true value, or who just assign a quick “Melt Value” (how much the bullion or gold jewelry will be worth if it is melted down into just metal) are not even coming close to giving you the real value of the gold jewelry or gold bullion. Choose Gold Jewelry Buyers who have extensive experience because this will allow you to get the most money for your gold bullion or gold jewelry! Experienced buyers can skillfully determine what your gold jewelry is worth.

Pawn1st Pawn & Title Loan Centers are Gold Jewelry Buyers and gold bullion buyers in the Phoenix area. Pawn1st employs a staff of jewelry and bullion buying experts that pay more than other pawn stores or gold jewelry buying outlets. Visit one of the seven Phoenix-area Pawn1st stores to get the most cash for gold jewelry and gold bullion!

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Finding The Best Jewelry Buyers in Phoenix Arizona

Added 3/7/2012

The Best Jewelry Buyers in Phoenix Arizona

When you find yourself in need of some money quickly, there are very few things that can generate that cash as fast as the sale of your jewelry. Most jewelry is worth some significant money, whether it is a newer piece or is an antique piece. Some jewelry that you might not even think is worth money may be worth quite a bit!

For example, most people have heard that the prices for gold are at some of the highest levels in history, which is true — but did you know that sterling silver is also at one of the highest levels ever? You can take gold, silver, platinum, diamonds, watches, Native American jewelry, or antique jewelry in to reputable Jewelry Buyers in Phoenix and get more money than you may have ever thought possible for it.

When you are deciding which of the Jewelry Buyers in Phoenix to patronize, keep two things in mind. First, you need to choose the pawn shop that gives the best jewelry payouts since pawn shops since jewelry buyers in Phoenix often have wide differences in how much they pay to the customer.

Next, you need to choose a pawn shop that has employees who are properly trained to evaluate jewelry. This is very important because some of the Jewelry Buyers in Phoenix only take one factor into account, for example the “melt value”, meaning how much jewelry is worth once it’s melted down. There are a number of other factors that need to be considered in jewelry valuation, and you should always select Jewelry Buyers in Phoenix who know all the different methods of testing and evaluating jewelry pieces: There is much more to it than just the melt value!

Pawn1st Pawn & Title Loan Centers are Jewelry Buyers in Phoenix who pay more money than any of the competitors, and who have employees specially trained in multiple methods of jewelry valuation. Pawn1st has seven Phoenix area locations, with three pawn shops in Phoenix, and additional pawn shops in Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe, and Scottsdale.

 

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Best Prices for Gold in Phoenix Arizona

Added 3/5/2012

Sell Gold Jewelry in Phoenix Arizona

Looking for the Best Prices for Gold in Phoenix Arizona? There can be no doubt that gold jewelry is more valuable today than it has ever been, which puts people who want to sell gold jewelry in Arizona in a very profitable position! Even as recently as a few years ago, gold prices were far lower than they are today, and gold just keeps getting more valuable. Gold prices have been steadily on the rise for about 10 years: Industry analysts tell us that gold prices have spiked sharply over the last decade, and that the prices don’t appear to be dipping again anytime soon. This translates into fantastic news for anybody who owns gold jewelry that they want to sell for quick money, gold jewelry that they never wear, those who have old gold jewelry, or people with out-of-style gold pieces that are just taking up space in the jewelry box.

As long as the gold jewelry is genuine gold, Pawn1st will make you an offer on the gold: We pay the best prices for gold in Arizona, and we are always going to offer much better prices than other gold buyers. We pay an average of 40 percent more than the competitors, and we vow never to take advantage of our clients by misrepresenting the value of the gold jewelry. You have probably seen the ads for the “gold parties”, read about the “mail your gold to us” companies, or heard commercials for local merchants that say they will buy your gold. All of these places can’t come close to the prices that we at Pawn1st will pay: We put our relationship with our customers above all, and we will not lie or take advantage of that relationship!

Gold buying is more than just an occasional thing for us: We purchase gold day in day out, and we only hire specially trained gold buyers to work for our Pawn1st locations. To ascertain the true value of gold, it must be properly tested — and we will always do the needed tests so that we can give customers the most accurate possible value. We take every aspect of the gold into account, not just the “melt value.” Most other pawn shops simply consider how much the gold will be worth once it’s melted down but we will look at your gold using the proper testing methods, just as true jewelers should.

Gold Jewelry Buyers in Arizona: Pawn1st Pays The Most For Your Gold

Pawn1st is skilled in evaluating and testing gold that ranges in value from around $100 up to $100,000: Until you bring us your gold to evaluate you will never know what kind of hidden treasure you may really have! Whether you need a quick loan and want to pawn gold in Arizona, or want to get top dollar by selling your gold pieces to one of our seven area locations, Pawn1st is here for you! We have three locations inPhoenix, as well as Pawn1st stores inMesa,Tempe, Gilbert, andScottsdale. We are proud of our reputation as the #1 gold buyers inPhoenix!

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Selling Diamond Jewelry

Added 3/5/2012

Diamond Jewelry Buyers

Where To Find The Best Payouts. When it comes to Selling Diamond Jewelry, it is extremely important that you realize what you have in terms of value. Of course you want to be sure to get the most money for your diamonds, but what do you look for when you are looking for Diamond Jewelry Buyers? How do you decide which Pawn Shop or retail outlet that you should be selling diamond jewelry to? Getting the best payouts for your diamond jewelry requires you to go to the diamond buying experts.

Getting Best Prices From Diamond Jewelry Buyers

The most important thing that you need to have when it comes to Selling Diamond Jewelry is fair valuations. You have to use a pawnbroker who has earned the reputation of giving a proper value to all the diamonds that they see. Unfortunately, there are plenty of places that will try to undercut you on the real value of your diamonds: Don’t accept under-valuation from a place that is trying to give you only a tiny fraction of what the diamond jewelry is worth.

At Pawn1st, we are known as the best Diamond Jewelry Buyers in thePhoenix area because we only hire people who are experienced in the jewelry industry, and we then train them to be expert diamond buyers. Our diamond buyers must all complete a highly specialized intensive diamond training program. Diamond buying is a very big part of what we do at Pawn1st, and since diamonds can be so valuable we don’t believe in leaving any room for error: Our Diamond Jewelry Buyers are highly trained so that they can judge the value of the stone with great precision.

We evaluate what are known as the “4 Cs” of Diamonds: This means:

• Color: Generally speaking, a colorless diamond is the most valuable, and diamonds are graded on a scale that grades how close the stone is to colorless (and therefore flawless). Most diamonds have some yellow and brown color to them, even if not visible by the naked eye. This is why we use special jeweler’s tools: The specialized tools allow us to see every aspect of the diamond and grade it appropriately.
• Cut: The cut of a diamond is very important because the best cut diamonds refract the most light and show the stone to the best advantage. Diamond cutting is both art and science, which is why a beautifully cut smaller stone can be worth far more than a poorly cut larger one.
• Clarity: The clarity of a diamond refers to its imperfections, or lack thereof. Nearly every diamond has imperfections of some type, either blemishes (damage like scratches to the surface of the stone) or inclusions (flaws inside the stone like cracks and traces of minerals). The less blemishes and inclusions, the more the stone is worth. Special jeweler’s tools help our Pawn1st experts to determine the clarity of a stone.
• Carat: The carat weight of the diamond refers to how large it is in diamond terms. The higher the carat weight, the larger the stone. A bigger stone is not always more valuable, although it can be. All four factors have to be taken into consideration to get a proper value for a diamond.

Our diamond buyers at Pawn1st are highly trained and are ready to pay you more than anyone else in the Phoenix area for your diamond jewelry — we regularly pay out an average of 40 % more to the customer than any competitors. Come visit us at one of our seven Pawn1st locations: Our Phoenix,Mesa,Tempe, Gilbert, andScottsdale diamond buying experts await you!

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Best Paying Gold Jewelry Buyers in Arizona

Added 3/1/2012

Anyone who has an interest in precious metals, investments, or in jewelry in general already knows that, putting it simply, Gold is Hot! Gold is more valuable than it has been for a very long time, and it just seems to keep getting more valuable every single day. According to the World Gold Council, there was an astonishing 394 percent in the price of Gold over roughly the past decade: From 2000 to 2010, prices went up nearly 400 percent — and these prices show no signs of slowing down in 2012 and beyond. With the gold prices as high as they are today, this is the most financially profitable time ever to be Selling Gold. While most people are actually aware of that, they are not sure where to find the best Gold Buyers.

 

There are a couple of things that make a store a good place for Selling your Gold jewelry or other gold items. The most important is that true subject knowledge — to the point of expertise — is needed. At Pawn1st, the Gold Buyers in thePhoenix,Mesa,Tempe, Gilbert, andScottsdalestores are the subject matter experts you need. Gold needs to be tested and evaluated in several ways to be sure that a proper valuation can be made. You might have thought that the only thing you need to know about Gold is that it is melted down for resale, but there is much more to it than that. It’s true that many inexperienced Pawn Shops who don’t know how to truly evaluate gold value (or who don’t care enough to take the time to do the proper testing methods on the pieces), and such stores might very often just be concerned with the “Melt Value”, which is the worth of the gold after the pieces have been melted into solid gold. Melt value is far from being the only relevant factor in gold value, and Pawn1st experts know this.

Another important factor in choosing Gold Buyers is finding a pawn shop that has built its reputation on honesty with customers. Pawn1st built just such a reputation by doing proper testing, and then telling the truth about how much it’s worth! Many of the Pawn1st customers are happily surprised to find out that their gold pieces are of a higher Karat than they knew and they will therefore make hundreds more dollars from the sale in some cases!

Gold values can vary widely depending upon how pure the piece is. When Selling Gold, the karat of the piece can make a significant difference. The gold prices that you see in the stock market today are based on 24 Karat Gold, which is 99.99 percent pure gold. However, most gold jewelry is made by combining gold with other metals since gold is too soft to be used as jewelry in its purest form. Most gold jewelry is 10, 12, 14, or 18 Karat. In rare cases 22 or 24 Karat gold jewelry is also made. The values break down as follows:

Metals like silver, palladium, copper, and zinc are added to the gold to make it hard enough to create jewelry from, and in some cases to add special color to the gold (as with “Rose Gold” for example).

Anyone Selling Gold in Az should ensure that they are getting the best possible valuation for their pieces by visiting the Pawn Shop with the most respected gold buyers in the business, Pawn1st.

Pawn1st Locations

 

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Diamonds

Added 10/28/2011

How to detect Enhanced or Altered Diamonds

 

Enhanced or Altered Diamonds

• An enhanced diamond is one that has been treated to disguise the feathers and inclusions in the stone.
• Enhancement makes the diamond appear to be a higher quality stone, therefore commanding a higher price (value).
• Enhanced diamonds only sell for 50% of a real diamond, based on certain wholesale prices.

 

How to detect Enhanced or Altered Diamonds

• Enhanced diamonds are drilled (by a laser) down to the inclusion, then filled.
• As you evaluate the diamond, turn it at all angles and look for any flash of color that is planar.
• It is common to see colors in an enhanced diamond that are blue and purple or pink and green.
• Inclusions in a natural diamond usually produce a flash of color that is spectral (more than two colors visible in the flash).
• When heat is applied to enhanced diamonds, the filling dries and expands, causing the inclusion to be worse than before.
• Enhanced diamonds are more and more frequent in the marketplace so beware!

For more information visit our Diamond Buyers page .

 

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Diamond Jewelry Tips

Added 10/28/2011

Caring for Diamond Jewelry

Diamonds are remarkably stable and strong. They resist very warm heat and sharp temperature changes quite well. They are even resistant to most acids. Here are a few tips on how to properly care for your diamonds.

 

How to properly care for your diamond jewelry

• Plug the drain on your sin.
• Wash the piece(s) with mild soap.
• Rinse thoroughly and dry with a very soft cloth.

Quick and easy way to clean Diamond Jewelry

You should regularly check the setting to see if the diamond has “loosened”, and inspect the prongs to prevent loss of the diamond.

 

Diamonds are the hardest substance on earth, and thus are quite resistant to scratching and breaking.  However, nothing has ‘perfect’ toughness, and even diamonds can be broken.  A blow to a diamond at the wrong angle can increase a previous break, fracture, or chip.

 Tip:

If you are going to take your diamond jewelry in to a Jeweler for repairs or any type of adjustments, remember to have the jeweler check for chips or fractures prior to leaving the item(s) in the jeweler’s possession. For more information on diamonds and diamond jewelry visit our Diamond buyers page.

 

 

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Gold, Silver, Platinum & Diamond Jewelry

Added 8/29/2011

(Is it) Worth More Than it’s Weight in Gold?

 

Gold, Silver and other precious metals are at an all time high, but realistically it can fall off quite fast or on the other hand keep on rising. Do you sell it, hold onto it or find out what it’s  truly worth?

Gold, Silver, Diamond and Platinum Jewelry, as a personal adornment, has been collected, traded, bought and sold throughout the ages. It has been used in pawning methods for thousands of years around the world. In our present day you can benefit greatly if you decide to sell, as precious metals are at an all time high. It’s also of great worth when used as collateral towards a loan. While you are in the process of deciding, one thing we suggest is doing some homework on your jewelry. By knowing something about the history, designer and style period, you may have a piece that is worth far more than the melted value. This type of jewelry is floating around more than people think. Many of our highest transactions have come from folks who didn’t realize what they had. With a well trained and trusted company, you may go in thinking you were going to get $100 and walk out with a $1000. This has happened many times in our centers. Some businesses have prospered greatly from these types of transactions, but those whom have a “get rich quick mindset” never prosper. They simply get a quick dishonest buck. Our brokers are well trained and believe that to build a successful business you must be forthcoming and honest with your customers.

Interesting Facts:

• While Silver isn’t as valuable as Gold, it has actually grown in value faster. So don’t over look your silver jewelry, coins,flatware, or even silverware as they may be valuable. Check for a (.925) stamp, (sterling) stamp, or (ster) stamp. Items such as flatware and silverware may only be partially silver but can still fetch a great price. Coins can also be very high in value.

• Well trained jewelry buyers will not solely rely on mechanical testing devises to estimate your valuables worth. They will use more of a hands on method to get an accurate value. One reason being, is that many pieces of gold jewelry have been misrepresented with a more valuable stamp. A gold ring may have 18kt stamped on the inside of the band, when in fact is 10kt. This is why qualified buyers test with a more hands on method.

Helpful tips when selling:

• Make sure your jewelry is tested in open view.
• Don’t be afraid to ask questions about your merchandise and the testing methods used.
• A reputable company is best as they have more extensive training.
• Shop around, and educate yourself.

Helpful tips when researching:

• Much of the Edwardian and Victorian gold jewelry stays well ahead of what current market value pays.
• Prices on gold and silver from the Arts and Crafts period as well as Native American Jewelry continue to climb in value.
• Craftsmanship and style can add great value to a piece.

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