{"id":1877,"date":"2014-08-29T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/?page_id=1877"},"modified":"2022-04-04T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T17:13:20","slug":"gold-silver-adder-price-plate-part","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/technical-library\/plating-topics\/gold-silver-adder-price-plate-part\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the gold (silver) adder and how does it affect the price to plate my gold (silver) part?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Contact-Us-16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6116\" src=\"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Contact-Us-16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Contact-Us-16.png 1920w, https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Contact-Us-16-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Contact-Us-16-1024x256.png 1024w, https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Contact-Us-16-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Contact-Us-16-1536x384.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a>All precious metal parts quoted by Advanced Plating Technologies are based upon the current Engelhard Fabricated metal pricing on the day of quote (see above link).\u00a0 APT does game precious metals quotes by quoting parts at a market gold price well below the current fair market price.<\/p>\n<p>The specific market gold value is listed at the bottom of the quote for reference.\u00a0 Along with this information the gold or silver adder is provided.\u00a0 The adder is the amount that the price to plate the part will increase or decrease for every $0.25 change in market silver or $5.00 change in market gold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example 1:\u00a0 Gold Increases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part 123 is quoted at $1.00\/Ea with gold at $1500.00\/toz and a $0.01 adder.\u00a0 If gold increases to $1550.00\/toz the cost to process the part will be the quoted price plus 10 adders (there are 10, $5.00 increments or gold adders between $1500 and $1550).\u00a0 Thus the cost to process the part will be $1.00 + 10 * $0.01 = $1.10 at $1550.00 gold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example 2:\u00a0 Gold Decreases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part 123 is quoted at $1.00\/Ea with gold at $1500.00\/toz and a $0.01 adder.\u00a0 If gold decreases to $1475.00\/toz the cost to process the part will be the quoted price minus five adders (there are 5, $5.00 increments or gold adders between $1500 and $1475).\u00a0 Thus the cost to process the part will be $1.00 &#8211; 5 * $0.01 = $0.95 at $1475.00 gold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:quotes@advancedplatingtech.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5591 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Submit-RFQ-5-e1646066165902.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All precious metal parts quoted by Advanced Plating Technologies are based upon the current Engelhard Fabricated metal pricing on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":122,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1877","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7G6ce-uh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1877\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}