Research
Questions our customers ask, answered with our own numbers. Every figure here is generated from our stock or carries the date we read it.
Buying gold
What to buy, what it costs and what to check before you pay.
- How do I add Big Bullion to my phone as an app?
- How do you check a gold bar is real, the way a dealer does?
- Where should you keep gold in Singapore: home, a bank box or a vault?
- How do you buy your first gold bar from us, start to finish?
- Can you pay for gold or silver with cash here, and how much can you pay in cash?
- Jewellery or bullion: what does the goldsmith's margin actually cost you?
- What would S$100 a month in gold have done over 40 years?
- A gold savings account or the bar itself: which costs you less?
- Is a 100 g or a 1 kg gold bar cheaper per gram?
- Does the refiner on a gold bar change what you pay or what you get back?
- Minted or cast: what is the difference, and what are you paying for?
- Which gold bar size should you buy?
- What do 999 and 999.9 mean on a gold bar?
Buying silver
Bars, coins and what silver actually costs once everything is counted.
Selling and buy-back
What to bring, how we test it, and when the money reaches you.
- How do you test silver to check it isn't fake?
- Selling inherited gold: how do jewellery, coins and old bars get priced?
- Can a company buy gold or silver in Singapore, and what does it need to do it?
- What happens to your gold when you die?
- What do you need to bring to sell gold, and when do you get paid?
- How do we decide what to pay you for a gold bar?
Prices and tax
What you pay, what the extra is for, and where GST lands.
- What is Big Bullion's Ministry of Law licence, and why does it matter to you?
- Is silver GST free in Singapore?
- What is the gold to silver ratio, and how has it moved since 2000?
- How much has gold cost in Singapore dollars since 1960?
- What moves the gold price in Singapore dollars: the metal, or the exchange rate?
- How is a gold and silver dealer regulated in Singapore, and what does that cover?
- How do you read a gold price chart without fooling yourself?
- What does a gold bar cost in Singapore today, and what is the extra for?
- Is gold GST free in Singapore?
- Which coins are GST exempt in Singapore, and which are not?
- How much over spot should you pay for gold in Singapore?
We sell physical gold and silver. Nothing on this page is financial advice.