36 Bucks? Are You Serious?

I imagine though that there were not. If there were, seems that they would be probably more around $50 or $60......on $80 coins when I'd try to snipe at $45 or $50 I'd often see sniping to $60 or $65 at least. My price threshold is usually lower than theirs and for that reason I lose more often than not. My other coins had no snipers either, when almost all my lots before did.

Neither did any of the other coins ending tonight from other sellers, apparently. Almost every single coin ending that night got absolutely creamed. That seemed to be the issue more than anything, so while I'll take a lot of these suggestions, hopefully my next batch does better.

I think I'm probably going to eliminate the description in my last round. It seems that the more you write, the more they're suspicious of you, when the opposite is often true = ( Still, I hope I do more comparably to the last auction round before the one Saturday night. That wouldn't be too bad and I need the money. What is a normal number of watchers for a mid level type coin 1-2 days before auction end? I want to know if I'm getting enough of these also.

Sorry to hear about your losses, but good thing you made some money on your recent sales. I sold most of my collection due to some other situations and I kinda wanted to start over, and here's how it went. I sold about $350 on ebay since I sold most of the coins on other venues, and as for the ebay auctions I did pretty well. I have no idea what my reasoning was back then but I ended most of the auctions at around 4 PM on Saturday, and I seemed to do better compared to previous experiences by putting less in the description and using all caps titles. I made solid profits on most, except I lost almost half on a 1921 SLQ but I somewhat expected that since I cracked it out of the PCGS slab.

After factoring in all costs, I made a slight profit, so I was pretty happy. Here was my most profitable auction percentage wise, given that I paid $15 for the coin.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...t_572wt_1057

I'm not going to disclose exactly how much, but I made heavy profits a few times. It seems like its do-able, you just have to get the timing right because regardless of the number of watchers, most bidders bid last minute and if they're out, the coin will go absolutely nowhere unless its a highly sought after popular key. Adding a note about combining shipping is probably a nice idea.

I've heard Saturday and Sunday evenings around 9:00p.m. CT are best for ending your auctions.

This auction "autopsy" thread was interesting.

This would actually make a lot of sense.

That could explain why I often get a bargain these days, but also often get outbid. It could be even more important to stand out properly to buyers in an economy like this. The people I bid from are typically low-mid feedback sellers who probably don't get much attention. I have definitely noticed what you said about coins with a large portion of bullion value. Same with popular key dates. It also seems on more common higher grade coins, and its also a buyers market though a bit less so on slabbed pieces. I got a pretty good deal on a PCGS MS-65 FH Standing Liberty quarter awhile ago but I guess that tends to be somewhat anomalous because most sellers don't try to sell coins that high end off easily.

This is definitely a good thread, since while I consider myself pretty adept at US type coins in general and buying stuff, I am not very advanced at selling. There seem to be quite a lot of things that did not seem to matter that really do, since its more complicated than I realized.