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Quote:I saw one sell for $125 on ebay. It wasn't anything special, just a star note. No special date or serial number. The guy even had a greater than 10 day handling period, so surely you can sell yours for at least 25 over face and make money on them. Yeah, but is it even worth it after the ebay fee? |
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United States
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Don't forget shipping! Hope that wasn't included in the $125 sum. It's not easy making a profit on ebay anymore with the new fee structure. |
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United States
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Woodford.Like you say.Hard to make money on ebay.So now they charge 2 to 3x for shipping |
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Pillar of the Community
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I really don't get what you guys are saying about ebay fees. I really don't think they are bad. Total profit on the star selling for $125 should have been about $120. The ebay fee on something that sells for about $100 is about $3. Shipping would be about $2 in a bubble envelope. What I really don't get is people selling things for less than $10. You seriously aren't making any money on those. |
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Last I checked between ebay and PayPal (which is owned by ebay anyways) you're losing about 12%...so you'd clear about $110 assuming you overcharge enough on shipping to cover the fees since they apply to that amount too. |
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The fact about fees aside, I am not sure why someone would pay for a star note modern $100 if the SN wasn't anything special. If the buyer resides in the U.S. they could just attain one of those at the local bank for face value. The only reason there might be a buyer at $125 would be if they resided in a foreign country and happened to want a set of modern U.S. currency. In such case, shipping should definitely not be free. *Edit:Then again it is ebay, so anything goes. Edited by Woodford
02/28/2013 12:27 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Well, that's the thing about the $100 star note. The guy clearly said no international shipping, so it was someone in the U.S. I really can't understand it either, but someone gave it. I have sold $10 star notes for about $5 over value before to people in the U.S. most of them didn't have a special serial number either. I really guess some people are just to lazy to search the banks.  |
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United States
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Being a teller myself, I have 8 $100 star notes in my cash drawer. I found two uncirculated new $100 style star notes and bought one of them. I only started paying attention to serial numbers and star nots about a month ago when the new $100 were released and a coworker explained the value of fancy notes. Since then I have found 19 star notes, so they seem pretty easy to come by.
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A $100 note selling on ebay has to go for at least $119 (all included) to break even after fees, postage and face cost. Here's my face cost star note set. I wonder if I could make anything on it at ebay. I'd guess not much as none of the notes were very special. https://goccf.com/t/149261&SearchTe...tar,note,set |
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