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Valued Member
Canada
274 Posts |
Hi ! I have started a collection many years ago and for few year I do not buy anything, like soeone a see my first post, I had chearching some information about the coins and my interest come back a little bite lol I buy the majority of what I have in a local market and I pay around 50-60% of the price. My other basic question, how much you pay in general for your coins (in % of the value)? (I enderstand that the key can be very higher) I check them on ebay for fun this weekend and I find them expensive... I do not have a list of price at date but I'm little bite surprised. I'm surprised too by the grade.... 75% are overgraded, if you pay the full price + shipping for a VF and in reality it's a fine and sometime very good.... in reality some pay 2 and 3 times the value ... I buy few proof like set... all very commun and 2 nickel but I do not see any real deal. What do you think about that ? THanks ! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
I try and get the lowest price possible. I have found that buying bulk lots from members here on the forum is a great way to go also. Some members here here sell very often and at reasonable prices. Another venue is local auctions. Much harder to get a great deal but sometimes you can be the only one interested in what is on the block. For example , I picked up up a really nice 1921 Morgan, 1922 & 1923 Peace dollars for $20 bucks this past weekend at one. Then there is roll searching, that of course is at face value. |
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Valued Member
Canada
241 Posts |
For ebay , I'm only buying Certified coin such as ICCS or CCCS , the reason is that you buy the grade mentionned in the certification , otherwise if you buy coins not certified you will get surprise : coin cleaned, polish, lower grade than you though ... and if your lucky sometime you can get high grade for less but kinda rare. if they are un-graded ill pay 40% to 60% less than what I think they are. if they graded ill pay 10% to 40% less depending on the coin rarity. at local store ill say I buy my coin 10% to 30% less than their value. what exactly are you looking for your collection I can help you if you need help or price. Good luck ! |
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Valued Member
 Canada
274 Posts |
Hi ! Thanks for this help :) It's sure that I will not buy on ebay if I do not see a close picture ( unbelivable but some don't show the good side lol ) I just see that the deal are not easy to find, like a tell I also collect stamp and with my experience it's more easy to find deal on stamps. On stamp I already pay 10% of the value on about 10 stamps ( on the same seller) the total value was about 1000$ and I pay under 100$ for all. In coin's I find them expensive and when it's certified is out of price ! For the moment I will try to complete or at least advence my collection of 5˘ , I buy some proof like set of commun year too on ebay.. I think that it's the better way to complete the commun year, buy them 1 by one it's too expensive. The qulity of the proof like set is corect for me... I'm not interrested to pay 5 time the price to have a gem. If anyone have a price guide book of the last year or 2 year it can be good for me too. I have a old unitrade but someone talk of a another compagny... I don't know if it's better but anyway I'm not looking for expensive item like a tell to you I also collect stamps and miniatures train's I have 3 aquarium lol my budget for hobby are very splitted. I want to post some list in the section " wanted" but I need 50 post lol I can not write "blablabla" just to complete them lol. Does it have other auction or place to buy that ebay ? I check here in the section " sell" but the major part are USA coins, it will be great if it can have a canadian section ? and the search tool does not work well. Anyway it's fun to check them and talk about them too :) THanks ! |
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Valued Member
Canada
274 Posts |
how I make to send I private message ?
THanks !
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Valued Member
Canada
464 Posts |
In my experience, you won't get great deals on ebay. You usually end up paying at least 80%... I used to get much better deals on ebay Live auctions (70% average), though that site has been taken down. 50-60% sounds great, where do you buy your coins from? |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I'm trying not to pay much more than 70% right now, generally for graded stuff. There are tremendous deals to be had on ebay with a little patience, but certain dates will always bring strong bids regardless of what's going on in the world. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1248 Posts |
Yves,
you need at least 50 GOOD posts before you can send private messages
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Valued Member
Canada
274 Posts |
Hi ! ok for the private message. In this case "silvermaple" contact me if you want. OK for ebay too, you confirm what I look too. What I already have I buy them from a local trader/dealer he is a collector that for second job buy collection and resell them, but I can past 3 month before it have new stock, in this like like I'm about new collector I find a lot of thing that I pay in general at 50%. I don't know if it work on that at this time. If someone are around Quebec city he probably know ? For the fun I will continu to check a eyes on ebay :) THanks ! |
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Valued Member
Canada
241 Posts |
Yeah I'm from Montreal in province of Quebec.
i know its not easy to fund information around here.
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Posted 07/06/2009 7:19 pm
