Best Places To Sell Silver

I've heard that you can list 50 items/per month on e-bay without a charge. How does that work? I watched several on e-bay. Many key dates were listed for fair prices and never sold. If I paid 10% of the final value listing and didn't sell that would be a bad approach. Also, I have bought off e-bay, but only when I could get a bargain. Many go low when auctioned. I would be glad to sell most of them at 10% below book or something similar.

1---"The best place to sell silver" is like Camelot, Shangri-La, Valhalla, Nirvana, Paradise, etc -- Everybody's looking for it, but hardly anybody ever finds it.
2---It depends (as said above) largely on what you're trying to sell. If you're selling what's "hot" in the present market, the world will beat a path to your door.
If you're trying to sell what nobody wants, you've got some real problems. It also depends on your pricing--reasonable pricing makes for quicker, easier sales.
3---In terms of specific possible places to sell...
Online vendors = Not high prices, but you can call their 800 tel# and find out what the drill is.
ebay = good for a lot of people, but abundant problems, grief, hassles and fees. If you treat your buyer perfectly, they can still lie and give you headaches.
LCS = quick easy sale, but bottom dollar for your silver (hopefully, but maybe less than that if a "less than totally scrupulous" LCS gives you a beating).
Shows = who knows/hard to tell/total crapshoot. Depends on the vendor you're dealing with.
Private sales = if you know who you're dealing with, a good option. Buyers can be found through online forums, local coin clubs, etc.
CraigsList = IMO, the express route to getting beaten, stabbed or shot, robbed and waking up in a hospital ER. Only for those who are far more daring than me.
If you have to use CL, make sure you have good health and life insurance that are paid up-to-date.

Whatever you do---best of luck with it!

Fat Freddy: Each of those are interesting. I know I showed a few coins to a local dealer. He would pay silver for MS coins. He was buying silver at spot but only if it was really something he could sell for much more. I guess that better than 80%. E-bay, I know my experience - when silver was much lower, I could find it on e-bay occasionally for less than spot. I visited a recent coin show - the only sales I saw were children buying (one seller did have his son going from dealer to dealer looking for things listed too low).

FFD---Yeah, I guess doing a deal on in the lobby or parking lot of the local cop shop might be OK... depending on the PD's reputation (ha,ha).

Also -- I forgot to say one thing about shows... The size of the show also impacts on your chance of success. You have a much better chance at shows with
>50 vendors than you have at shows with <25 vendors. The bigger the show (IMO), the better your chances at successfully selling.

On LCS's... My LCS buys generic silver bullion @ $1 under spot and ASE's for anywhere from $1 over spot (mint condition) to $1 under spot (crap condition).
Those are pretty standard buy price levels in my area. Proofs are different and go on an individual coin basis.

Has anyone ever sold to Northwest Territorial Mint?

Also, what are your experiences with Heritage? I talked to them and they wanted me to bring in what I had before really explaining their charges?

numiz? ebay
lots of 999 bullion with international shippinh? ebay (even after the fees)
junk? forums

JSH:

Very interesting. If I read you right they didn't consider wear. I have a buyer for the soil encrusted, but at only 80% of spot.