According to the gold shop owner in Kertapati Market and Village Market 10 Ulu Palembang on Saturday, in recent weeks citizen buying interest tends to
decline, as evidenced by potential customers who come in and know the prices are still high straight away without first bargaining.
There are still potential customers who came and had bid, but very little direct purchase, the gold shop owner said "Tilapia" at the Market Kertapati it anyway.
Some say that gold sellers, the selling price levels of 24-karat gold jewelry in various forms of Palembang which is currently still considered high, influenced by overseas markets.
According to him, since the price of gold jewelry in the range of Rp2, 1 million to Rp2, 2 million per tribe (a tribe = 6.7 grams), very few consumers are buying.
On the contrary, when the high price of many of today's consumers who sell gold jewelry savings to meet their needs, he said again.
He acknowledged, every day more and more consumers to sell gold jewelry savings, compared to the purchase.
She said the normal price range at Rp1, 8 million per tribe, usually it can sell between five to ten tribes per day, now is to remove the four tribes only per day difficult.
He added, consumers who come to buy gold jewelry that is now almost all from out of town, like Regency Ogan Ilir, Muaraenim, Prabumulih, and Banyuasin.
Monitoring on the market, it appears a number of gold jewelry shops are still visited by many prospective customers, but according to the merchant only a small proportion of direct purchase.
Generally consumers, buying gold in small quantities with a range of one tribe, and in a ring.
