Ebay Or Private Website, Which Is Better?

I don't have an online shop store front, but I sell a fair amount on ebay.

I would prefer ebay over an individual website at this point in time, because I don't have the time right now to devote to webpage design, driving traffic, etc.

ebay has fees, but it makes like easy.

Regardless of yours opinion about ebay, they remain the kings in most collector categories, including coins.

I don't mind using ebay at all for selling, although my buying doesn't include much from ebay simply because other sources have the coins I want - Heritage, Stacks, and Great Collections.

Whether we like it or not, at this point ebay is the biggest audience with the lowest fees to sell. There are plenty of things to hate about their policies but as of now they are still better than the alternatives if you aren't a whale to negotiate fees away from Heritage/Stacks or meet Legends requirements for auctions.

"Free" listings, but more importantly real discounts on final value fees.

Have both, ebay is a lot less work and gets a ton more of traffic.

In your case the two main questions would be what are the expected sales values and how much of the fees can your dealer negotiate away from Stacks?

ebay is great for selling but if you're looking at low to mid 4 figures or better for the price of those pieces it becomes difficult to sell on there especially for uncertified material. The other thing too would be you would lose a lot of bidders and potential buyers listing pieces like that with a brand new selling account. Even though they do have very good buyer protection a lot of people would just avoid a new seller in those circumstances.

As far as Stacks the deal you are able to get with them will probably be a bid determining factor in which route to go. If you can get a lot of the fees negotiated away they will very likely be the best choice. If they expect to get their full fees then you might just be better off selling them right to a dealer or working out trades for the new material you are interested in. Even with a dealer leaving room for profit the offer could be better than what you would expect to get after losing the buyer and sellers premiums on the auctions, but of course the flip side is one of the auctions may go higher than expected.

If it was me I would try and get a ball park number from the dealer for what kind of percentage you would get if you used Stacks, if that number was good I would likely just go with them or try and work out some trades to my liking.