I have been selling gold jewelry that my ex husband bought for me when we were married. I do not ever plan on wearing it again, but I can at least take the money it nets me and try and pay off the credit card bills, the house payment and the car payments that he left me with.

I thought about selling gold jewelry to the pawn shop or the local jewelry store that buys and sells, but then I might run into someone walking around town wearing some of my old pieces. I think that would be weird, so the internet it is.

I read that if you sell gold online you should be able to get about thirty percent more than if you sold it to a local store. The reason being, the local guy has too much overhead and then they are only going to give you about half of what it is worth so they can turn a profit too. If you sell gold online, you can ask the fair market value of it since you will be cutting out the middle man and going directly to the public. If I am lucky, when all the jewelry is gone and I collect all the money, hopefully I will feel better about the divorce.