Best shop for gold jewellery shopping in Malaysia

Best gold jewellery shop part 1

Buying gold jewellery for could be tedious jobs to do when you do not know where to start. There a few hundreds gold shop in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur and surrounding cities area like Petaling Jaya, Shah Alam, even more, Port Klang. We are looking at the usual high street gold store up to several long lasted surviving old gold store that gives a personal touch to it customer. 

There were three types of the major gold store in Malaysia. 

a) High street chain store gold shop. This gold shop can be found anywhere near major department store shopping mall. 

 b Gold Distributor store. The principal purpose of this shop to supply gold product to various gold seller agents in particular area. Membership is required when to do purchasing here. 

c) Old gold jewellery shop. This type of store exists for past few decade before the high street chain event exists. They have a unique ability to repair and restore most of the gold jewellery that damage or broken. 

 Unique High Street gold shop

 The first pick for the high street store was Emas Sri Pinang Gold shop. It is a high street brand name store that gives an excellent customer service and very competitive gold price. One of best features was their very own jewellery designer that offer new product design that cannot be found anywhere. Emas Sri Pinang currently has five retail outlets in Klang Valley area. The first retail store was open at Semua House, (Kuala Lumpur). The other four are at Complex Metropoint,(Kajang), Kl Festival City,(Danau Kota), PKNS Complex Shah Alam and the latest outlet opened in Encorp Strand Mall, (Kota Damansara).Visit their official website here 

Kedai Emas Si Harmoni will be our second pick of the high street gold shop.This store was located at Kota Bharu Kelantan; It is a city about 400km  north-east from Kuala Lumpur. So what so special about this particular shop? It is famous for " Emas Kelantan "  or Kelantan Gold making craft. 

Kelantan gold was a gold making art which incorporates unique Malays cultural design in all it jewellery products. Initially, the art perfected from generations back from the 14th-century history of Malay Peninsular. At the period, Kelantan state was under Siamese protection, and like another regime, they required the state to contribute annual gifts of valuables. Among the famous one is a " Bunga  Emas "  ,  a decorated flower tree made from gold. 

Since then, Kelantan region was famous for their gold making and design which were unique and outstanding. Another bonus was their gold price as always as lowest as possible compare to the world market, usually about 0.3% to 1.5%  different from market price. It is a trade secret that puzzle to other competitors. Kedai Emas Si Harmoni could be found  at  335B-1 , Jalan Temenggong , Kota Bharu , Kelantan or view latest offer from their facebook

We will look to another two types of  jewellery golds shop on 2nd part

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How to sell gold in Malaysia

Gold jewelry or gold bullion can be sold easily in Malaysia without any restriction. There were no selling tax or capital gain tax rules for any types of gold items sold by Malaysia resident or nonresident. No permit or license required for such activity, except for export or import of gold to or from oversea in the form of gold bullion required permission from Malaysia central bank approval.

Where to sell gold in  Malaysia?

The were four major ways gold can be sold in Malaysia. Firstly, gold can be sold directly to any local gold shop or jewellery shop.  It is required for the seller to provide proof of purchase and proper identification for recording. The gold shop will offer buying price 15 % below normal market price as a handling fee.

Secondly, sell gold directly to the private investor. There is much local gold investor want to buy gold at a higher price than retail gold shop. The gold buyer can be found easily nearly by the gold shop or ads in the local newspaper. The price offers slightly better than gold shop rate at  9% - 12% spread of daily gold price.

Thirdly, there was a gold distributor from gold franchise company that offer to buy gold as trade in value for their products. You can found them easily in a local newspaper and internet media. They will offer to buy gold at according to the company publish rate which was better than a gold shop.

Finally, you can find a gold buyer in internet store or online shop which can be reached easily on Facebook or blog website. This private seller was a small trader or small enterprise which can be trusted and using mail as the delivery method. Their price is not controlled by any franchise company or gold  shops association. The price offered were more attractive as this gold buyer have little or less operating cost and less targeted buy margin at 4-5 % higher than the spot price.



How to sell gold in Malaysia 

For selling gold to gold shop or franchise company, you can either walk into any gold shop and ask for quote buying price. The store gold selling price per gram was on display in every gold shop, but it is advisable to ask for update buying rate first. The shop owner normally has gold weight machine to verify gold weight in gram and gold purity tester for check gold purity.


For online buyer and private investor, it is proper to provide the gold weight in gram and gold purity information for their valuation.  Usually, the trade was made at meeting points like a coffee shop or bank. For a significant amount of gold meeting inside the bank is advisable for better security.

Term and condition to sell gold in Malaysia.

There were no particular condition or property gain tax for sell gold in Malaysia. All transaction were made by cash basis; selling was concluded and completed after an exchange of good and cash.


Cash option when you do not want to sell gold in Malaysia

Gold was much appreciated in Malaysia and can be considered as good as cash. If you want to acquire cash with selling your gold, you are always can go for borrowing with your gold as collateral. You can alway get maximum borrowing out  of 60% of your gold market value. For a small handling fee, you can get a payback period up to 6 months at any Ar Rahnu outlet .

To conclude, selling gold in Malaysia is easy and exciting. You can found various type of purchaser and shop that give your a puzzling option and gold price rate at best or worst than spot market. Using spot market as the guide are advisable but never exclusive.  Spot price rate can be found in real time at a local gold market website. There are RM20  to RM60 different per weight of gold to Malaysia gold market price to world spot gold price.Try to sell your gold in Malaysia for better investment option.



  





  

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Gold bullion and silver investment in Malaysia .

 Gold and silver as an  investment 

Using gold and silver as an investment were acceptable and norm ways to diversify your investment nest. You can invest on bullions, coins or jewellery made of gold or silver and waiting for right moment to sell it for profit . In Malaysia , gold was sell by local manufactures and distributor by introducing and producing their own brands .

There were many excellence goldsmiths and distributor for international recognize brand like PAMP Suisse. Gold coin and silver coin products were making into several types that applicable to Malaysia market.

Popular gold products. 

Primary type of gold popular in Malaysia was jewellery at 91.6% purity or 22K gold . Most gold shops sold and purchase this type of gold jewellery . The goods were sold base on their weight, design and craftmanship . The shop will charge base on current market price and extra charges for craftmanship. Secondly, gold bar and coins with purity 99.99% or 24K .

These product popular among gold investors and collectors. There were two major different of coin products that differentiate Malaysia gold market with others. . Their very own produce `Kijang Emas ` (Barking deer ) gold coins weighted either 1 oz, ½ oz and ¼ oz respectively. This product issue by Malaysia central bank and distributed by major local banks . Another product is gold `dinar` coin weighted by several size of 4.25g , 8.5g or 21.25g and 42.50g.

 Buying or selling Spread . 

All gold shop are having their own selling or buying spread . Their business plan was simple. Higher spread value and they are making profit. When your are selling or resale of gold, the shop try to buying at lowers possible price, make a new jewellery from that gold and sell it at higher rate. Most gold shop have worst gold price spread between 12 - 15% of gold value . Gold bullion offer much more better spread rate between 5% -9%. Several bullion manufacturer's publish their rate following world spot market and offer an hourly updated price.

 Investment opportunity's

Gold products purchases were tax free investment. No tax apply for selling or buying gold in Malaysia and also no tax for export or import of gold products. There is requirement for export permit and Malaysia central bank approval. Gold was considered as precious metal that can be use as collateral for obtaining private loan. The typically pawn brokering service give your gold appraisal value and give money up to maximum of 60% value of your gold at market price. Using pawn brokering service will give you option to inquired more gold . You only need to invest 40% cash to buying more bullion. It is continue into several tiers . It is advisory to repeat the process up to 3 times or less. The last gold bullion is key to unlock your investment . An increased in gold price will give effect directly to your total assets values less all loan taken and payments. What will happen if the price is decreasing ? There several new option can be done. 

Firstly , typical pawn broking periods can be extended for 6 months or more . This will give your extra time for price movements and trends changes. 

Secondly, buying more gold when prices were at downtrend. You can a get lower average price per gram from total gold that you own . When the trend change , it is possible to sold it with profit. Buy back policy and customer trust. Gold bullion business were monopoly by several local Malaysia gold manufacturer like PG gold and CGPC gold. 

Several others small minor manufacturers which selling under their own brands. Gold can easily traded by buy , sell or exchange . For example your are having 5 units of 1gram gold bullion. When someone interested in 5 grams bullion you can sell all 1 grams bullion in exchange of 5gram . All manufacturer have this buyback policy to increase sale , flexible and encourage people to make saving in form gold bullion. It is also function as trust and confident for the manufacturable able purchase back their sold gold as needed . Trading gold bullion in Malaysia was still at new stage . 

Using internet and social networking to discuss , review and advertisement , online gold trading was a very successful and comparative business . Many stockist buy or sell almost the same brand name . The only advantages that the stockists had were differential gold stock in weight and stockist location. As a gold stockist , they were making profit in tier sale commission and gold exchange scheme as a gram is a gram of gold . I.e. 5 items 1 gram for 1 item of 5 gram of gold . There many more future development and facilities like safe deposit rental and delivery service for valuable metals or exchange center for gold could be increase the people knowledge and start to invest in gold .

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