How Bad Is The 'Market Acceptable' Problem With Seated Dollars? This Bad!

Nothing like the awesome photos that Heritage takes. Of course, they charge more for that! I bought both of these coins from Heritage and these are their photos, and they didn't look nearly as awful as the pictures. Also, a few weeks ago I was watching a coin on GC with the exact same grade and holder as one for sale at a fixed price at DL, since I was interested in it...it sold for more on GC even before the buyer's fees than what the same coin is listed for on DL. I am not affiliated with GC, just trying to put out some facts.

Thanks for weighing in Jimbucks! I agree those pictures suck but I understand what Chester and Baseball are saying. Lighter toned coins look washed out in GC pics but darker toned coins look drool-worthy.

Here's a lustrous 1840 Seated dollar with CAC approval I purchased from Great Collections a few months ago. It looked kind of washed out in their photos but I took a chance because of the CAC designation. Boy am I glad I did.

The first two pics are GC's photos. The remaining are mine and a better representation of what the coin looks like inhand:

Mikes example is a perfect illistration of what we were talking about. The coin is . I am confident that if it had his picture at least another if not several more bids would have occurred.




I was speaking of DL since that's who you had mentioned. Hard to know without the two coins being posted.

As for the 0% fee at GC, technically that is kind of true. You pay a listing fee at GC for everything unless you get them to take that away so that's a selling fee. There is always a buyer fee which is really paid by the seller since most people back their bids off to account for it unless something is exceptional. So while technically you are paying 0% as a sellers fee you aren't paying 0% to sell there as you are paying a listing fee and losing the buying fee.

As for Heritage and Stacks with substantial consignments or working with a dealer who gets part of it you can get part of the buyers fee. Some will do it and take a small percentage which is still a much better deal than their normal full fees which is why they're so high so you feel like you're getting a great deal when its negotiated down.

I've seen people on different forums talk about dealers that get -5% and they'll do the consignment for -2%ish so the consignor still ends up with -3% which puts the fees very close to the GC fees and even under their fees for under 1k items.

Hammered at $1,918.