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Here's a comparison from coins SOLD on TV compared with coins with buy it now prices on ebay at the time the TV guys were hocking their items. Most of these are modern, but there are a few classic coins, but this seemed the most appropriate category to post. I don't know what the TV guys charge for shipping, so I didn't include it in their price, but did include ebay seller shipping fees, so TV guys prices are actually higher than tabulated. These were taken from 2 or more different TV guys. The "seller states" column is what the TV guys had the guts to say, some is just pathetic.  Edited by jimbucks
07/28/2018 12:23 am
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Those guys are just another bad mark out to rob coin collectors.  |
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 It's pretty sad what TV sellers can do to manipulate you into buying their coins for a huge profit.  Errers and Varietys.
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Some of those are more reasonable markups then others. ebay prices on a lot of those things are usually a race to the bottom. Tv has air time and production costs that have to be included and some of the channels take a percentage of the sales price as well which would also need to be factored in. The per item profits is very likely a lot less on a lot of those than people think especially because the inventory costed money as well. Some of them are a lot worse than others about what they say to try and get sales but there actually are mail order catelogs that really are generally more expensive. There are also a lot of half truths though like implying or saying the ANACS coins are worth as much as a PCGS or even an NGC. The big one most people think of used to be a lot more interesting with what they offered in the past too. There used to be a good mix of products and even some interesting ones you may have missed but seems like it's turned into the ASE and junk silver show which could not be more boring to watch. Edited by basebal21
07/28/2018 03:09 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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Prices look typical. Good rule of thumb is whatever the TV is selling it for is roughly twice retail. That holds pretty true for most of those.
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Some of those are more reasonable markups then others. The sad part is, that these prices I listed are not set prices, but what suckers viewers supposed bid on them (but I wouldn't be surprised if there were shills). I was unbiased and fair and did an apples to apples comparison, and none of the TV coins were CAC so they were likely by no means "premium" quality. My point is that people are ignorant to bid up these items when all they have to do is go to ebay and buy the same thing for a lot less. I wonder what the return rate of the overpriced coins is. Edited by jimbucks
07/28/2018 2:46 pm
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The sad part is, that these prices I listed are not set prices, but what suckers viewers supposed bid on them (but I wouldn't be surprised if there were shills). I've never seen a TV auction before |
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Correction. Most of the prices on my list were from TV auctions. Some of them were fixed. The data was from more than 1 TV coin show.
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Correction. Most of the prices on my list were from TV auctions. What Tv shows are running auctions? Must be one of the smaller ones I'm guessing |
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Worthless information, any one can pick prices from anywhere.. real prices are determined between an educated buyer and a educated seller,, period..
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Must be the Coin Vault. Every coin they sell, they always trot out, we got some comparison pricing from the nation's leading catalog, lol. I can only guess they are using Littleton Coin list prices as their comparables. Kinda like when Rick Tomaska uses ebay listing prices as sales comps, lol. No appraiser uses sales listings, its closed sales Rick |
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If yer watching TV for your coins, you really must believe the Bachlorette is reality TV!  Oh, and a TV purchase, just because of overhead...snort...you still gotta be a:  |
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I can only guess they are using Littleton Coin list prices as their comparables. They are. At one time I saw them making the comparison and the showed the catalog. I had a copy of the same Littleton catalog. |
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you really must believe the Bachlorette is reality TV WHAT? The Bachlorette isn't real?  |
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I remember the guy on TV saying the Dime in the March of Dimes set was going to be priceless in the future!! You can still find the set for about $85...  |
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Gilligan's Island was the original reality show. The ones trying to pass as reality shows today are probably more heavily scripted.  |
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Posted 07/28/2018 01:42 am
