Selling Your Costume Jewellery
in Ontario
Got some serious junk in your drawers? Costume jewellery has a way of multiplying. You collect it for years, inherit a box of it from an aunt, and then one day it’s spilling out of your jewellery box and taking over the closet. If you’ve been wondering where you can sell costume jewellery in Ontario, the honest answer is that most buyers won’t touch it. We will.
What is Costume Jewellery?
Costume jewellery is the inexpensive, mass produced type of jewellery made to imitate the real thing. Think base metals instead of gold, glass or rhinestones instead of diamonds, and plating instead of solid precious metal. Sometimes it’s surprisingly well made, and sometimes it’s, well, not so much. Brands like Sarah Coventry, Monet, Trifari and Sherman fall into this category, along with the thousands of unbranded pieces that came free with an outfit sometime in the last sixty years.
Here’s the thing most people don’t realize. Costume jewellery still has value in bulk. Crafters, resellers and collectors want it, and some vintage pieces are worth far more than their owners think. That’s why we buy it by the pound instead of making you sort through it piece by piece.
How Much Do You Pay for Costume Jewellery?
On average we pay $4 per pound of scrap costume jewellery. No sorting, no cleaning, no untangling that knot of chains that’s been sitting there since 2011. The more the merrier. A full shoebox adds up faster than you’d expect, and a few garbage bags of it can turn into a genuinely pleasant surprise.
A couple of honest exceptions. We may turn down plastic New Orleans Mardi Gras beads, single earrings that lost their partner decades ago, and anything that’s more craft supply than jewellery. And if we spot real gold, silver or genuine gemstones hiding in your costume pile, we pull those out and pay you real jewellery prices for them instead. It happens more often than you’d think.
Where Can You Sell Costume Jewellery in Ontario?
Your options are thinner than with fine jewellery. Pawn shops usually say no outright. Thrift stores will take it, but as a donation, which pays nothing. Selling it piece by piece online means photographing, listing and shipping hundreds of items worth a few dollars each, which is a full time job in itself. Selling the whole lot by weight to a buyer who comes to you is the fastest way to turn a cluttered drawer into cash.
How Does It Work?
- Send us a few pictures of what you have. Phone photos of the pile are perfectly fine.
- Let us know where you are and when works for pickup. We’re based in Guelph and serve all of Ontario.
- We weigh it, and pay you on the spot.
That’s it. No appointments at a shop across town, no waiting on a cheque.
Selling Costume Jewellery Along With the Real Stuff?
Most of our clients don’t have a purely costume collection. If you’re clearing out an estate or downsizing a lifetime of jewellery, we buy the fine pieces and the costume pieces in the same visit. One appointment, everything gone, one payment. You can read about how we buy estate and gold jewellery on our estate jewellery page.
Start Selling Your Costume Jewellery Today
Fill out the form below with a few photos and a note about roughly how much you have. We’ll get back to you quickly with next steps, and your jewellery box will finally close again.
