Where to Buy Jewelry Online?

Posted on 2nd March 2019 by Bruno Rivas

Certainly, there are several places where you can buy jewelry online. Most brick-and-mortar jewelry stores have websites where you have the convenience of purchasing from your home. Online auctions can be even more conveniently appealing because of the diversity of selections offered all in one place. 

Some jewelry auctions online auction off their pieces to the highest bidder in fewer than five minutes. It’s exciting to watch when more than one item of its kind is being auctioned and to note the differences in the final bids. The bidding may go on for days on other sites so if you’re really interested in the item, you have to keep checking back to make sure no one has outbid you. Although these sites may have jewelry of equal value and quality, they are not as exciting to watch until the last few minutes of the last day of the auction. 

Especially for more valuable items, jewelry is auctioned off with a reserve, the lowest price the seller will accept to sell the item. As long as the reserve is met, the item is sold to the highest bidder. If you know the name of the jewelry designer, it’s a good practice to take a look at their website or the websites of retail stores selling that designer’s jewelry. There you will get a good idea of how high you should bid for the jewelry according to the retail price of the same or similar items. In some cases, the reserve may be just a few dollars less than the retail price. Unless you get very lucky, the bidding will surpass the retail price very quickly. If the designer is in Hong Kong or China, you’ll often find that their jewelry on auction sites is going for quite a bit more than what they advertise on their websites. The very high cost of shipping, however, makes it far more economical to buy on the auction site most of the time. 

Though where to buy jewelry online depends partially on the factors discussed above, once you’ve experienced the excitement of purchasing jewelry at online jewelry auctions, you may never want to shop for jewelry anywhere else or any other way. As long as auction sites guarantee your satisfaction, their selection diversity and the fun of bidding make online auctions something everyone who loves jewelry should try.