Advice On Selling Coins In Canada..ebay?

Watch ebay listings for a while and see what things sell for. Be realistic about what you should get. If you have realistic expectations, you can move a lot of material quickly on ebay. I don't think buyers care much about whether a seller is new. Buyers can always return items. The only thing buyers really won't like is someone with poor ratings.

Theburnz .. Where did you get the "value" or what you have for "worth"? If you are using Charlton, or Trends, or Krause, you can expect about 60-70% of the "list", and then only if your grade matches what the buyer thinks it is. And if you sold $7 in Canadian silver for .99 cents total, you need to do some study or preparation before you try to sell something else. 14 fifty cent pieces is $7 face. Each Canadian face dollar of silver has .6 troy ounces of silver, so you had 4.2 oz of silver to sell as scrap. With silver at $16.30 US, that's almost $70 US, and multiply that by 1.25, that's $87.50 Cdn that you let go for 99 cents. If you know what you want out of something (look at ebay "sold" prices"), then put a minimum on it. And whatever you do, DO NOT believe that a coin's value or worth is what you see in a book or paper or website .. listed prices ar always overly inflated except for SOME normal items above MS-64, or scarce varities over 60.

@theburnz.
1. Consider your shipping costs and where you actually set up shipping methods. IE if you're in the US and used Global Shipping to Canada then most Canadian buyers will scroll right past your listings. And Canadian buyers are the primary market for Canadian coins. If you didn't set up a shipping method to Canada then your listing won't even display to buyers with Canadian addresses. And if you're charging too high a shipping rate compared to other sellers (IE you're charging $30 shipping when we know it could be sent by first class with tracking for about $16) then, again, Canadian buyers will scroll right by.
2. Ensure the Category is set correctly for each listing. A few months back we picked up some great deals from a US seller simply because they had been listed in the US coins category instead of the Canadian coins category. We just happened to stumble across them despite most of our standard searches filtering by Category. But I suspect many Canadian buyers missed them completely.
3. For your Malaysian Straits coin, did you run a search and sort by price + shipping to ensure you had the lowest cost listing on ebay? I don't suspect there are many buyers floating around looking for it so when one does eventually pop up you want to make sure it's your listing they buy and not somebody else's. And it might take a year or two for that buyer to show up so you're best setting it as GTC BIN rather than a 7 day auction.
4. Another pattern with auctions is that many buyers will scroll past ones that have a high start price or a reserve set. So unless you're selling something 'hot' where more than 1 bidder is likely to show up then you might as well go with GTC BIN instead. Or start at .99 and take what you can get which may, as you unfortunately found out, just be .99.
5. Make sure you hit all the key words that a buyer may search on or be interested in within the title. IE "lot 14x 50 cents 1940-1950 Canada 4.2 troy oz ASW 80% silver half dollar fifty" If you have room list all dates individually to get more hits.

Even though they shouldn't, a good percentage of them do. It's much harder for a new/newer account to sell more expensive items or sell things with auctions. It's silly since like you mentioned there's always returns ect, but there are a lot of people who just flat out won't buy anything from new accounts.

I am not surprised it was hard to sell. The bullion value is only $40 or so and from a practical perspective the mint sold all that demand would take at the time. So your only market are those who have since decided they want one. They aren't part of a collection series so many collectors won't bother.

I am afraid that this coin is probably only worth $200. Even then it is only worth $200 as spending money and spending it is difficult. The fastest way to get your money out of this coin is to take it to a Royal Bank branch. If you put it up as a buy-it-now on ebay for $200 or $210 I am sure someone will take it sooner or later. But after fees you are better off going to the RBC.

At the best of times, I am afraid buying anything from the mint is an iffy investment.

#1 THe Burnz For your (overpriced) 200 for $200 try just depositing them to your bank account and moving out later....its likely they will accept it and eat their loss rather than offend a (longtime/valued) client

#2 Canadian coins....please make sure you tape/well secure the 2x2 to a piece of paper inserted in the envelope or to the envelope....nothing gave me a worse feeling than receiving an (empty) envelope with a tear on the bottom corner a little bigger than 1". Even better are the carboard self adhesive coinwrappers that I sometimes get from USA shippers

#3 Reverse the process of how you found what you were bidding on.
Did you search by coin type ....looking for say 1858-1921 5 cents will generate 2,000 items..so follow KUH_85' advice (it was all pretty well dead on as far I could judge....but I'm generally only a buyer too)

That is not exactly correct. Banks are supposed to take back the face value coins. However they may decline to do so because they either don't want the extra paper work or they don't know of the redemption program.

It is the RCM who ended the face value coin program due to high returns. There was a guy on TV who was able to go on trips and vacations by buying these coins and returning them. He gained points which allowed him to travel.

If one bank don't take back the $200, keep trying until you find one.

I have never put a phone number in and it has never been an issue. If you sign into paypal and look in the order details, the phone number is often there. You have to hit the button in paypal that asks to look at things in "classic view" or something like that.