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Posted 10/22/2012 8:58 pm
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Ebay gives more of a market value imo because with teletrade and heritage you have to pay a buyers fee which people take into account for their bids keeping the actual sale price artificially low.
Ebay gives more of a market value imo because with teletrade and heritage you have to pay a buyers fee which people take into account for their bids keeping the actual sale price artificially low.
Had this been true, the phenomenon of high ebay prices would have been limited to coins, and maybe some other collectibles. The simple truth is that ebay seems to bring out the crazy in buyers. Even if you include BP, Teletrade and others are typically result in lower prices. ebay prices are just unpredictable varying from occasional bargains to frequently very high.
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Whats the point of all that to break even though?
Whats the point of all that to break even though?
If you don't pay for the FS designation, you get a decent profit.
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Theres no evidence of that with this set because we wont know till it happens. There are indicators with other things that suggest if could very well happen.
Theres no evidence of that with this set because we wont know till it happens. There are indicators with other things that suggest if could very well happen.
Had there been "indicators", that would constitute evidence. It is difficult to claim that FS designation results in a sizable premium, when nearly all of the recent coins carry FS designation and there is very little sales activity for non-FS. If you browse through PCGS Price guide there are even instances when non-FS slabs are listed with higher values than FS in the same grade. If PCGS (who have the biggest incentive to hype up FS) shows that occasionally, that tells me that FS is simply empty hype, and FS premiums mostly are an illusion.
