Looking To Buy Some Wheat Pennies.. How Much Should I Pay?

Probably mostly 40's and 50's in there and I would buy them assuming they are all pretty much going to be so. I would haggle with him, 3 or 4 cents sounds about where I'd like to be on them. Sure there could be something great in there but I wouldn't bet on it. if the seller goes for it maybe you could try buying just a part of the lot at first and then see what it looks like and if it turns out to be a good deal buy the rest if not pass on them.

I disagree. $1 per roll is the most I'd pay. He says some things that don't add up, such as he's "sure they are wheat cents because he machine sorted them". Wheat cents and memorial cents are the same in size and weight. There is no way a machine could sort them that way (if some of you out there know better please let me know how that could happen).
I'm pretty sure, as stated by previous posters, that they are all common dates, but if you want to try one roll out as a test, I'd say give it a shot. If by chance there is something of value in the roll you buy, perhaps then I'd buy more of them.

Really...people? The language of the add here doesn't add up. Machine sorted? What does machine sorting have anything to do with wheat cents? Sure they are made of copper, and a Ryedale can sort copper vs zinc, but how can the CL poster state that "I know they are wheat cents because I machine sorted them" when a Ryedale doesn't separate wheats from memorials? You must hand pick through the copper cents (in other terms search) to find the wheats. If you add these two statements together from the add...

"I know they are wheat cents because I machine sorted them" and "I personally did not search them" you come up with an impossibility unless the poster is using semantics in that HE/SHE didn't pick the wheats out of the coppers, but the person sitting next to them did. The term "personally" is always to me a sign of technicality and shadyness.

More than the so called machine sorting, I like the UNSEARCHED. I suspect that eventually this word will become the most used word in coinage. I too would say forget this one. Probably all SEARCHED and all really poor in grade.

I can get then at my LCS for 3-4 cents a coin. I'd pass on this one.

What are you hoping to get out of this? I'd wager that this collection is at least 90% 1940-1958, with maybe a few lowball 30s and late 10s. Plus, if he really did machine roll these, I'd expect a few stray Memorials in there as well. If that sounds good to you, then I'd say go for it. You could probably also haggle him down to maybe $2 per roll if you were willing to get more at one time--maybe even the whole batch.

That said, you can certainly do much better if you do some digging, and I wouldn't expect to find more than a few coins in the whole batch that are actually worth anything. This guy probably bought them for $1.50 a roll and is trying to turn a quick profit.