Selling Coins On Ebay

And your just one of many for some reason some areas just don't click on the same types of intertainment. I'm in the Northern Illinois area and around here there are standard 4 coin shows a Month, all in differnt areas, all on a Sunday, regardless of weather or Holidays. Then too there are the perioidically larger shows which come up about every few Months. We actually have so many coin shows that many overlap and then some are hurt by that.
Not to brag but we also have many gun shows, knife shows, dog and cat shows, camera shows, flea markets, computer shows, car shows and on and on and on. Just had that largest car show in Chicago. I love our camera shows where I usually can get a decent camera for $10 to $40 and the latest, not an old piece of junk. I can get computers so cheap I have several working all the time. And this is why here I don't need ebay at all. Around here there is virtually NOTHING you can not buy.
And as to crowds at coin shows, last Sundays was so crowded I really did leave early due to aisles being jammed.

I agree with the OP. ebay charges a premium for something they can deliver that no one else can, exposure.

If you look at it for what it is and work with it, rather than fighting against it, it can be a great resource for both buyers and sellers.

I certainly hope that some friendlier auction sites become viable enough to provide an alternative to ebay and force some concessions from them by actually providing competition, but that is not a reality right now.

If you are not using ebay as a buyer or a seller right now than you are missing out imo.

And that is the one really, really big thing about ebay. There really is no other place on Earth where you could try to sell a coin and virtually millions of people will see that. A person could go to all the coin shows anywhere and never attain that type of exposure.

Some more posts and I will be able to sell/trade/buy on this forum which I enjoy :)

Right observation, wrong reason.

Sellers ask for top dollar because if they started at $1, that might be the only bid they get. Since ebay rarely functions as an auction site, people use high minimums to protect themselves.

You want to define "rarely"...because that's not my experience

750 - sell-thru on ebay is around 40%. Name a real world auction site that doesn't get bids on 60% of what they put up. They'd be out of business in a month.

obla - not saying anybody is "better", simply that a typical ebay coin auction doesn't get millions of viewers, more like 20.