I live in a hard sell area!! I was thinking of maybe this year our town has a school parking lot yard sale and you can rent a space for like $10.00 car parking size and set tables so you are in the middle. SO IF I was to put out my error coins and stuff what would be the sugestion for watchers maybe a DVR and camera if the have power set on a nearbye persons square? I guy or girl to watch each side? Do the folks at the shows Know of slight to hand or what ever people? or magicians? Maybe I am being or thinking to much? THANKS FOR ANY INFO JON
Never, ever, provide your own security! Make SURE the venue has their own. Not just some clown w/pepper spray. They recently had a trial here, where a would-be "shoplifter" at a farmers market, will live comfortably the rest of his life.
Have you given any thought to what the sun pounding down on the coins might do? Do you plan on providing some type of canopy? If it's in a school parking lot, I doubt that there will be any electric power. If you find it necessary, you might want to haul in your own portable generator. Chris
You'll need your own cases. And you'll want to advertise to local coin collectors where you are gong to be because the average person won't have a clue about error coins and they are probably there just to find some household goods. You might want to try peddling something like National Park quarters there.
seems like it would make it mighty easy for a bad guy to follow you home and knock you on the head... Just a thought.
I wouldn't do it for the reason Matt cited above, plus you will have a big target on your table for "five finger discounters". Security for these types of sales is usually pretty minimal if at all. I wouldn't even sell anything numismatic at a garage sale - nothing like advertising "coins here, please burglarise".
People don't go to garage sales and things like that to spend serious money. They are looking for deals. The only coins I'd buy would be big lots of unsorted stuff hoping I'd find a deal. I don't like your chances of getting good buyers offering fair prices.
Well, I've been selling coins along with assorted "collectibles" at yard sales and flea markets for the past five years or so... and never had a single negative issue. I sell mostly low grade pre '64 silver along with the less common circulating modern coinage such as dollar coins (Ikes, Sacs, Presidential... which sell easily at three for five bucks). You would be surprised how many people have never seen a dollar coin or even a Kennedy half. Once in awhile I get a collector who actually pays close to accepted "book" value for some of my older stuff. Never had an problem with security, maybe I've just been lucky. Here's my table from a local yard sale a few years back:
It wasn't the first... I don't remember exactly what edition. I think it's still somewhere in one of the yard sale boxes.
