The ETF paper gold price is just a different coloured chip in the imaginary trading game played in the Casino. The real figure is the price you'll take to part with your actual held in your hand precious.
The paper price is a guide and is usually status quo for a selling point, but in times like now, the paper price decouples.
Currently Kitco says I should expect $2450 for an ounce of gold, when my personal price today is nearer $3000 because of,
1. World changing events on the horizon, and
2. Physical being hard to find (at the "paper price").
Now that price may be delusional according to some, but
1. I don't need or wish to sell, and
2. Someone with cash, and no physical to be found, will probably think it cheap and buy what's available.
The ETF market is a shameful fraud.