Please Help Me With My Auction

DJ, if this is one of your first coin auction sales, then I think you did pretty good. It's real easy to pick apart any auction and talk is cheap, but I think you're doing all the right things: you have a return policy, your shipping rates are within reason, your images are clear with no attempt at deception, you accept PayPal, your feedback is unblemished with very glowing comments, your start price was low and reasonable, and your description is straight-forward (you might want to have someone review a draft description for spelling and grammar, but that's a small point) with no attempt at extravagant claims for the coins. If I HAD to make a criticism, it would be on the use of jargon: I don't know what you mean by "head/head" and "head/tails" (I'm not a Sac collector). Explain this in your description so a potential bidder won't pass you by because he doesn't understand what you mean and you'll get even more bids. I personally would prefer to see a description which is over-simplified and lengthy rather than short with only technical terms if I am looking at something with which I may not be familiar.

well I know I forgot the Date in my discription other then that I am not sure what you mean. I tried to make it so there were two key word that someone might be looking for.

thank you that will help me out alot even though I don't have much more I can sell. but thank you guys

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I not only offer but require insurance in every one of my auctions.

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Actually, this is a very touchy subject. Technically by FTC law this is not allowed. The way around it is, saying its included, and making the S&H higher.

Thre is a very high misconception level among ebay sellers about mail-order law.

I'm sure you've seen a thousand different ways of a seller saying, "Not responsible for uninsured packages". Well, those disclaimers don't mean a hill of beans. You as the seller are required to get the item to the buyer. Period. All the disclaimers in the world won't save you in court.

Insurance protects the seller not the buyer.

I'll give you an example. Columbia House charges $6.95 to ship a CD. Postage is 96 cents, the box is about 20 cents and a small cost for labor. About $4.50 of that $6.95 goes into an insurance escrow account for lost and damaged packages. If you say you didn't get it, they just send you another one and it comes out of the escrow.

When's the last time you saw a mail-order commercial that said add $x.xx if you want insurance? You haven't because they know the law and cover their butt by other means.

Dave, I don't honestly think that you'd ever get called on it. There are bigger fish to fry than us ebay sellers. But if you want to do it right, that's the way to go.

We make insurance optional and use an outside company, not the PO. But if a buyer doesn't pay and it's a lot of money we insure it any way to cover ourselves. Conversely, if someone pays for insurance on a $10 coin, we self-insure. If a problem arises, we eat it.