How Many Set Of 2013 ASE Westpoint Mint Have You Bought?

Everyone overpaid except the person who bought the cheapest. So, your point is what?

Where I'm sitting, the only ones who overpaid are the ones who paid more than retail. You know, the price by which you measure whether you overpaid or not.

I think most people who use ebay should 1st know what they are buying and what it costs elsewhere. I've told a lot of people who are new to ebay - they need to know what the price is elsewhere before they jump in and BIN or put in a bid. That isn't just on coins, it applies to everything sold on the site. If you don't research 1st you are more than likely going to pay too much. The thing is with popular coins - too many people go to ebay and look at the common prices listed and sold and assume that is the market price. Most large sellers do the research and know the same things - so they list their coins in the same ranges as their competition - which in this case is other ebay sellers. ebay is after all the largest market place around.

All that being said - I've bought a lot of coins on ebay and have gone to local coin shows and they aren't that much different. Some items I can get easily on ebay cheaper than the local sells - somethings are much cheaper at the local shows. I have a lot more options on ebay and we have very few local shows that have commemoratives and other odd coins. I can guarantee this set of WP coins won't sell locally graded or in OGP for what they sell it for on ebay, my options locally are that limited and I am sure I am not alone saying that.

Finding a market price - depends on the market. Amazon has coin retailers and some are fair others are not. Many large coin sites have some fair prices and some not so realistic, some have great prices and terrible shipping fees.

At the end of the day - the old saying is "there's a sucker born every minute" and ebay can be a prosperous place when finding them.

Not me. I measure it by whether I could get a better price elsewhere without expending more effort. If Walmart 5 miles away sells something for $10, but I drive 10 miles to Target, just so I could spend $12 on exactly same thing, I'm pretty sure that would count as overpaying, even though both stores charge retail price. Similarly, if I can buy something at Best Buy for $300, but I chose to buy it on ebay for $500, I'm fairly confident that would be overpayment, even if the mythical MSRP is $600. YMMV!

Order placed within the 1st hour on May 9 original ship date 6/17/2013

Mine still say 6/17...probably haven't sent me the email yet....

ordered at 1:06pm day 1

I ordered 2 sets on the first day at 1:06pm, I just got off the phone with the mint who told me all 6/17 ship days are being pushed back 2 weeks. Which was actually good in a way because I could go and place an order for a pre sale 70 set from Silvertowne which I been eyeing all week but didn't have the extra $300. So I go to silvertowne site to find out they are sold out of all 70 set's. Now my only option is to wait or order from Goldmart who I never ordered from, and heard their service is terrible....I really wanted the eagle label which goldmart does not have but I could live with the blue pcgs F.S. west point blue label which they do have for $275 + $12 shipping. What to do?

Modern Coin Mart had some more labels when I checked but I havent checked their prices in a while and they were out of PCGS ones last time I looked but had some NGC ones.

You could also try setting an alert for the Silvertowne site on the off chance that they get more of them.