Ebay Sellers - At What Price Point Do You Insure Your Coins?

Personally I dont insure a whole lot. If its 300 400 bucks I will but the post office fights their hardest to never pay out an insurance claim and when they do it takes months so I dont really see the point. I always use tracking on what I ship though and sometimes signatures as well which covers you as a seller.

But I would say this since the insurance cost can get pricy it is cheaper over time to lose a 80 dollar package or two than to be insuring 50 items. That said I would insurance anything that if it got lost you wouldnt want to have to deal with the lost cost or couldnt afford to deal with the cost

$50 for me. Anything from $20-50, DC.
Anything below $10, 65 cents first class rigid envelope and take my chances.

This is incorrect. ebay does not require insurance. You do need Signature Confirmation on items over $250 for Seller's coverage on a possible charge-back however.

I insure over $100 but not always for the full amount. An example would be a $400 item that I might insure at $250.

I have never had an item lost or stolen in hundreds of transactions. I package well and have the item scanned to activate the insurance (when applicable) "in my presence" for peace of mind.

Slow payment has to be my ebay pet peeve from a buyer standpoint. I can understand if you put in an early bid and win but dont understand why you would bid an auction at the end win the bidding war then wait days to pay

While it also bothers me when it takes people a while to pay, I understand bidding at the last second and not paying. I have a couple auctions that ended on the 4th, and I still haven't received payment on two of them. THAT I don't understand.

It doesn't bother me until it is 24 hours or more since they won. You guys have to realize that A LOT of people use sniper programs (myself included) that bid with 6 seconds or less left.

Me too once it sells I want to get it shipped as soon as possible and be done with it so I will print the label right away too.

I always pay right away when I buy since I know I would want the same treatment when I sell and definitely make an more of an effort to ship as soon as possible for buyers that do. Sometime I will even go to the main post office by me for those buyers which saves them a day of shipping time, if you wait days though Ill drop it off where ever I'm closest too.

You can use the USPS website to do the online shipping there it might be a tad more expensive but still have free tracking for priority mail and doesn't mark anything on ebay. I always mark it shipped right away now and post the tracking since ebay dings you if you dont post tracking fast, but I also either drop it at the post office that night or the next morning depending on when it sold.

I also hate how the tracking on ebay will still show the package hasnt been dropped off even though if you go to the usps sight its being processed and tracked

Sometimes they wont but have you ever noticed how it will work on the USPS site as it is being scanned it just doesn't show if you click the ebay version of it. For whatever reason the info doesn't get transferred from USPS to ebay or the link doesn't work.




I understand that, if they pay by the next day I figured thats what they do. I've had some sit for a week before and actually had one that never got paid for so long I had to have it canceled and relist. The worst part was they had outbid someone else so I would have rather taken a dollar less and had it sell then

Im actually a blackberry man myself. The emails as text messages is just too good to give up.

I do have a USPS account that has all my numbers stored in past orders which is nice. Sometimes ill give email the tracking to the buy and tell them to go to the USPS site if it doesn't show up for to long.

Just seems with how much emphasis ebay is putting on tracking they would make sure their site worked properly for it