I am getting into the scrap gold business (At Home Mom ) - A couple of months ago sold my scrap gold I had laying around -took it to a pawn shop - Got some money at the time I was happy ! In doing research I found I could have received more by sending it to a gold refiner . So now I purchase scrap gold from friends , family others to send to refiner . Right now 1 gram of 14 k gold is $14.99 - So my question - How is it that on EBAY everyone is buying scrap gold with many many bids and ending close to the $14.99 per gram . How are they making money??