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Rest in Peace
United States
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...TRK:MESOX:ITI cannot BELIEVE this only sold for $70. People must have looked at the first picture only and thumbed their nose at it. I paid about $180 for it a year ago : ( A coin worth $80 just sold for the same price, too. Shows how important it is to take good pictures.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1429 Posts |
These days I sell only with min prices. Markets are weak, consumers not buying as before.
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Rest in Peace
 United States
5375 Posts |
Most other coins I got close to what I wanted.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4541 Posts |
ouch. sorry to hear that man
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4944 Posts |
You had some nice coins up for sale.
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Valued Member
United States
376 Posts |
I didn't think that your pics were bad at all. The weak market or possibly some other reason must have been the reason your coin sold for less. It seems like when a coin is described as being cleaned in any way the price for that item drops off severely. Most collectors are not as knowledgeable as those on CCF and when they hear cleaned it means "stay away".
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yes you did get creamed on that one.
I have to say I would have loved to get that coin ... at that price.
That is one of my favorite coins, 1853 half with rays. I have a 1854 in my 7070 ... I would have swapped that right out for that one.
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Rest in Peace
United States
5375 Posts |
Bill,
I had already dropped it alot with my value assessment of about $200. This coin shoots way way way up in these grades. Remember this is the 1853-O that goes for $40 in good, so I'm pretty unhappy to get less than twice that for an XF-45, dipped or not. But yeah I do think this factored into it.
I was especially surprised that it only went for that after I listed right at prime time (10 PM EST, correct me if I am wrong). I mentioned that the 1859-O I was also listing had some problems as well. The 1859-O was LESSER grade and actually went for the same price, and its just a common date. Perhaps I just got dismally unlucky as well?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Not sure how this ended up as a duplicate post, only hit submit twice... Edit: Anyhow, I'm not entirely displeased with the results of this little 'experiment' of mine. That certain coin hurt, but if you take out the bullion, I still made over 10% after fees. If you take out that certain coin, 25-30%. And that's including a lot of coins I bought at the start of my ebay buying that I got poorer deals on. Its a good sign that if I take great pictures that I can get good returns, even on ebay. I made about 80-100% on some of the coins I had bought in lots (the 1888 nickel, 1814 dime, and the 1835 Half Dime to a lesser extent. Edited by coinguybrian
08/13/2010 12:17 pm
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
497 Posts |
I've seen much worse pictures on ebay than those. I've found that sticking to Sunday night end times helps a bit, tend to get more last minute bids www.kingstoncoincompany.co.uk
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Anyhow, I'm not entirely displeased with the results of this little 'experiment' of mine. I think overall someone will do better starting with low bids like you did...even if occasionally one falls thru the cracks or doesn't find favor with buyers for whatever reason. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
Your pics look fine to me Shadow. I say that I must agree with the guys on market trends right now. But then again it may be one of those fluke things that happen on the Bay from time to time. Do you remeber a few months back that one of our mebers posted a very nice Carson City Morgan he accuired on the Bay for around $20?
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Rest in Peace
United States
5375 Posts |
Yeah I was thinking that too. Alright, well I'm going to list coins of similar value on Sunday night and see how I do.
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Moderator
 United States
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Wowser. You were definitely the bug instead of the windshield that time.  I got curbstomped on my last set of auctions, too. It's definitely made me a little gun shy about selling more, at least for the immediate future. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
592 Posts |
Now that CCF has a new auction (yea) maybe we will not have this type of problem.
That coin was easily over $100; que la vie
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Rest in Peace
United States
4849 Posts |
Ouch! Yeah, ebay selling is always a risk. Sorry man. |
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Posted 08/12/2010 10:03 pm
