Ebay Seller Mark-Up Of Over 140% Seems Innapropriate / Unethical - Page 2

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Collects82 Pillar of the Community United States 1316 Posts	Posted 01/13/2021 10:22 am IMO the markup was simply the seller doing the work to buy inventory, photograph, and market it. They should get paid. They took a financial risk on the inventory, then used their time, equipment, and skills to photograph and re-market the piece. I'd want a lot more than 20-30% for putting all of into something as well. - I work in an industry where we don't touch a project if we can't get over 10X our cost on the goods. That other 90% goes to the work like he did, commissions, salaries, profit, etc. Report this Post to the Staff
Wade Pillar of the Community Canada 2781 Posts	Posted 01/13/2021 10:53 am 30% barely covers ebay fees. Report this Post to the Staff
one_fine_dime Pillar of the Community United States 591 Posts	Posted 01/14/2021 12:20 pm Quote: On all the pictures of the coin you posted it looks no better than AU / cleaned to me. Luster looks dead. At TPG it will most likely NOT straight grade. Yep, that's why I was reluctant to pull the trigger the first time. The photos were fuzzy, and hard to tell how much luster if any. Even with these new photos I couldn't tell if there was any luster or just bad photos. I don't know about others, but I find many sellers have the hardest time capturing luster in photos they post on ebay. I'll just return it if in fact it's lackluster (and/or looks cleaned) in hand. Thanks! Report this Post to the Staff
Zurie Pillar of the Community United States 5675 Posts	Posted 01/14/2021 2:20 pm You can often get a sense of the luster by looking over other coins from the same seller. I found this ebay seller, and several of his other coin listings show excellent luster, taken with the same background and lighting. So I suspect the lack of luster on this coin is due to overdipping or a cleaning, not bad lighting. Report this Post to the Staff
macmercury Pillar of the Community United States 5833 Posts	Posted 01/14/2021 8:34 pm Agree with lacking luster and cleaned, for the money it would need to be better. Report this Post to the Staff
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