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Did I Do It The Wrong Way ?

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 Posted 04/08/2011  10:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rjkingston to your friends list
I would break the description in paragraphs, maybe a little bigger type (not too big). Make an obvious showcase list of how many steelies, and indians. Otherwise someone is just going to take 668, times the weight of a plain Jane Wheatie and bid the copper weight.
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 Posted 04/08/2011  11:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list
I didn't look at your add but I think this doesn't add up right.

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....about 200 from 1909-139...about 20000 from 1940-1949 ....and about 200 from 1950-1958 ....

That comes out to be about 20,400 coins.

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668 coins @ *about* 4 cents each = $26.72


But think of how much it could be if it was 20,400 @ $0.04 each.
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04/08/2011 11:53 am
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 Posted 04/08/2011  12:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add eaglefoot to your friends list


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about 20000 from 1940-1949.......******
****i am offering 650+ wheat peenys with 12 steelies

I'm no ebay person.......but that confused me too ! ....

And what are ........."wheat peenys" .........

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04/08/2011 12:06 pm
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 Posted 04/08/2011  12:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Maineman750 to your friends list
I think the big question is how much were you expecting ? I think the estimates gievn so far are a bit low..my guess would be more like $45.
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 Posted 04/08/2011  12:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add General Tso to your friends list
Very common for auctions of collectable items to sit idle till the last couple hours. Everyone waits to post a bid hoping to not draw attention. I've had a ton get a few small bids early then sit idle till the last couple mintues then bids start to come in.
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 Posted 04/08/2011  9:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jamesinmich76 to your friends list
Thank you everyone for your comment and advice ....like most beginners I spent countless hours opening penny roll after penny roll ...probably a good 100 boxes worth and I found you get between 7-12 wheats per box...that is alot of boxes and time for the 15.00 bucks that my lot was stuck at for awhile lol...i have since moved on to 1 oz silver bars and rounds and what a time to "grow up" in the coin community...silver is crazy lol...much more exciting than the unrolling of hundreds of thousands of pennies ..Don't get me wrong ...i will still drool at a vdb s.....anywho....my next feat will be to try and sell my proof(clad) collection of about 350-400 pieces..all types....full nickel proof set from 1954-2011 plus about a hundred doubles...full 1999-2011 quarters and a bunch more ....wanna sell and get silver ...got all the 2011 silver there is to get from most all the countries that makes them....sorry ramblin on ...anywho thanks for all the insight on my auction and wish me luck on this and my next one.....

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 Posted 04/09/2011  5:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jamesinmich76 to your friends list
30 bucks a day left :) ...thanks again all for all the comments ...will let you know the outcome :)
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 Posted 04/10/2011  4:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jamesinmich76 to your friends list
sold for $54.00 thanks everyone!!:)
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 Posted 04/10/2011  4:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Scooby Due to your friends list
Nice! A lot more than I gave it credit for.
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 Posted 04/10/2011  8:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list
pick up one the coins. flip it to the side without a date. what's it say in the largest letters?

ONE CENT

very good.

Lots of people collect wheat cents

Quite a few collect Canadian cents

Some like Indian cents

You're selling something called (repeatedly) pennies. At first, I thought you had some British coins for sale, but they only make a penny and pence, no pennies.

Anyone searching for cents won't find your listing, because even though every coin tells you it's ONE CENT, and you offer three holders for Lincoln cents, you never once tell people you're selling cents.

And what is/are:
X TOTALs
X WHEAT PENNIES
X INDIAN HEAD PENNIES
X 1943 STEELIE AND
X KINGs? Former pennies that turned into cents?

You mention the number, the X is meaningless.

I think you got a pretty good price. Think how much better you'd have done if interested bidders knew what you were selling.
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 Posted 04/10/2011  10:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Maineman750 to your friends list
Well biggfredd, he did better than everybody predicted....maybe his way worked better than the "correct" way.I for one, don't argue with success.
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 Posted 04/13/2011  12:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add w1a9c8k5 to your friends list
I don;t think selling copper on ebay is profitable at all.
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 Posted 04/13/2011  1:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add willy13 to your friends list
When I buy $25 in cents from the bank, it comes in a box labeled pennies. ;)
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 Posted 04/13/2011  9:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list

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I don;t think selling copper on ebay is profitable at all.

Sure it is, ebay is making billions on the deal.


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When I buy $25 in cents from the bank, it comes in a box labeled pennies. ;)


As a dear VP banker friend said, "Bankers are the stupidest people on earth. If they didn't have a book full of rules and regulations they'd fall for every con game out there."

Not exactly bright if they can't even read the largest print on the coin.
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 Posted 04/13/2011  9:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add willy13 to your friends list
Next time I am at the bank I'll ask for rolls of cents.:)
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