Fun Thread - Worst Coins On Ebay, Etsy, Craigslist, And Other Buying Sites!

I came, I looked, I saw nothing!

Someone listed my auctions as laughable so I thought I would take a moment to defend them. First of all, I have an ebay store and I prefer to have Buy It Now listings rather than auctions. At the moment, ebay is giving me 100 free listings for auctions for 6 days so I have listed a lot of auctions in the past few days. As a seller, I don't like the unpredictability of auctions so I make the minimum bid the minimum I am willing to sell the item for. I think most of my prices are reasonable, but that is subjective. I know a lot of these items won't sell in the auction period given, but I am often surprised at how many do.

It was implied that it was ridiculous for me to put No Reserve in the title when my starting price was retail. The item referred to was the 1893 Isabella Quarter ANACS MS63. My starting price was $399.99 and there was a Buy it Now option for $519.99. I only put the term No Reserve in the title so that people would not be confused. Often times, when an auction item also has a Buy it Now price, the auction is a reserve auction - I did not want people turned off by that. Anyway, I currently have 444 listings and a mere 3 of them contain the term No Reserve (1 of those was a true .99 No Reserve auction.)

The numismedia price guide has the MS63 Isabella Quarter at $575 so I consider my starting bid of $399.99 to be lower than retail. The current bid on that item is $430 with about 5 hours to go.

I'm not upset or angry with the member who brought up my listing. I just wanted to let people know the reasoning behind my listing decisions. I think it is based in ration, but others are free to disagree.

PS - Many of you already know this, but please PM me if you see anything on my ebay store that you are interested in. I like to work with fellow CCF members.

I started this thread to chuckle together over some laughably, impossibly bad coins. There are many still to be found on ebay, but your Isabella Quarter isn't one of them.

I agree with DVC as well.

Wow--that dime is toast!

Waxemm.
That really does look like a pocket piece.

I wouldn't pay much more than melt.

I got a chuckle over this coin because there's a "P" stamped where the "S" mintmarks were added in 1908-9
The seller doesn't mention it, and it's debatable if this 1902 has much value over a few cents.

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Here's a "blast from the past"...I spotted these coins on ebay a few years back, and kept a photo of each with an actual description from the auction









and this classic....