Schedule, Beginner Auctions, This Week's Offer

Here's our current schedule.

Current CoinSniper Auction Schedule
Monday - Thursday: 6pm PT / 9pm ET
Friday: 4pm PT / 7pm ET
Saturday: 10am PT / 1pm ET
Sunday: 3pm PT / 6pm ET

Modern Monday Coin Auctions,
20th Century Tuesday Coin Auctions,
Classic Wednesday,
CoinSniper Favorite Finds Thursday,
TGI-Friday - Sunday, Mixed

If you pop by at the aforementioned start time, you'll be able to get a much better feel for what's going on. Sometimes things are quiet, sometimes things go nuts. You just never know - it's all up to the customers. When your first go on the site, you see all sorts of numbers - those are all count-down timers.

Here's a quick look at some of the other information available:
http://www.coinsniper.com/info/abou.../video-tour/

Stick around for a few minutes and watch one that goes nuts and study the details. Even if an item doesn't pass my low reserve, the high bidder gets free bids (CoinSnipes).

You'll notice that once a day, I offer a Beginner Auction. This isn't so much about winning a "great" coin, it's more about calibrating my grading and valuations to your grading and valuations. Every Beginner Auction ships out for free, and since you're getting free bids (CoinSnipes) when you register, you don't end up paying but the final bid price for whatever it is. Yes, that's correct, I ship out a coin worth a couple of bucks for $0.01 regularly.

The reason is that this is a Penny Auction. And there are a lot of scheisters in the Penny Auction business. So I'm showing you that I'm not one of them. Besides my marketing costs, I ship out every single coin with delivery confirmation and every shipment over $20 in value with insurance so you can get your money back if something happens. So this all costs me money - a few bucks a pop. But it's my good faith demonstration to you that I'm in this for real and it's all the real deal.

The thing is, if you win an auction, you have to pay for it! You can't leave me hanging - it's a heck of a lot of work and it erodes my credibility when people win auctions and then fail to pay. It doesn't happen often, but as you probably know, there are deadbeats in every business. But the cost is usually just a few cents - and this demonstrates to me that you're able to use my site alright and make payments when you win something more serious.


So use the Beginner Auction to pick up a coin for next to nothing (usually below face value and always well below numismatic value) and see if my pictures are honest in your estimation, and see how my grading and valuations stack up compared to yours.

The other thing about Beginner Auctions is that once you win one, you're halfway to "Expert" Status. (I'm thinking about changing that name...) Nobody that has won an auction can bid on or win a Beginner Auction. And you need two wins to be able to bid on the Expert Auctions - usually the nice stuff. So skipping your free Beginner Auction is CRAZY. Win it, pay for it, I'll ship it out and you can really get going on CoinSniper!

I'd like to mention, my pre-auction estimates have almost nothing to do with the final price paid all up (including bids) of the auction lot. So the pre-auction estimate is just that - an estimate of retail value. If you disagree, you bid less or more according to your comfort level.

CoinSniper is about having fun! And I have a lot of customers who keep coming back because they're having a great time. I know it's different... but those of you that have tried it are doing really well and having fun collecting in a completely different way.


And on that note, here's your special offer of this week!

----- THIS WEEK'S OFFER ------

If CoinSniping sounds fun to you, pop by and sign up.

I handle every new member registration by hand.

August 22nd -- August 29th, 2014

For this week ONLY CCFers get 10% MORE Paid CoinSnipes on their bid pack purchase. Everyone gets 10 FREE for signing up (and there are other ways to earn Free CoinSnipes, too), and CCFers already get 10% more - so that means you get 20% more when you buy your first THIS WEEK ONLY!

Send me your CCF username after you sign up and I'll get those extras into your account manually once you've made your first bid pack purchase.

---- THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION ----

Some of what is up for auction this weekend: