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SeatedNut
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 Posted 06/23/2008  11:39 am Show Profile Check SeatedNut's eBay Listings Bookmark this topic Add SeatedNut to your friends list Get a Link to this Message

In my recent searches for Morgan VAMs I've noticed more and more sellers hocking their wares for exhorbitant prices. I am at work so I can't provide a link, but as an example ... an 1878-S Morgan, in a PCGS64 slab ... nothing remarkable about the coin, with an opening bid of $495 and BIN of $525.

Do these people really think someone will pay that much for a $60~$80 coin? There's another seller who constantly has a 500% mark-up over current value for his coins. These are not single-coin sellers. They have many coins listed and have completed thousands of transactions.

I have seen these types of listings in the past, but they were few and far between. Now I see several on every page. Is this happening elsewhere besides Morgans?

So many coins, so little time ...
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Is this happening elsewhere besides Morgans?


It's always been there but I do agree that it is getting worse. Some sellers are desperate and all it takes are a few clueless buyers to get suckered into what they think is a great deal for them to make a killer of a profit.

Poor me can't even buy Marshall Island $50 coins anymore near melt like I used to. Everyone starts the bids from between $25-$45
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 Posted 06/23/2008  11:53 am  Show Profile Check bobby131313's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add bobby131313 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well this is one case where the buyer needs to be educated and the seller can't really be blamed as long as the listing isn't lying about anything.

I once sold some things for an old timer with a little antique shop. There was a lady with a big antique shop a few miles away. I asked George one day, "How does this lady get the prices she does for this stuff?" His answer was very simple and to the point, just like most old-timers answers...



"She asks for it."
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 Posted 06/23/2008  12:51 pm  Show Profile Check murty's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add murty to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Bobby131313 is right on the money.
Do these people really think someone will pay that much for a $60~$80 coin? They will!!
W.C.Fields "There is a sucker born every minute"
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