Cheap 1795 dollar

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by calcol, Jan 30, 2017.

  1. calcol

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  3. Coinlover67

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  4. gregarious

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  5. Kirkuleez

    Kirkuleez 80 proof

    You did exactly what they wanted you to do, you directed people to their site. When I was doing eBay Sales's for SCPM, I would purposely have the most expensive coin on eBay at all times even though it was often ridiculous given the coin. I typically used a three leaves 1795 MS-64 flowing hair dollar from the Cardinal collection as my high dollar piece and would price it as high as a million bucks just to draw some traffic.
     
  6. calcol

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    It was eight nines to the left of the decimal point. But even at $10M, it would be a bit more than Red Book.
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  7. calcol

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    Maybe it gets most folks to look around more. I'm not a marketing or ad guru. When I see something like that, I usually have laugh and move to a different website.
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  8. Kirkuleez

    Kirkuleez 80 proof

    I'm with you, but a lovely toned MS-64 1795 flowing hair dollar is usually worth a look even if the price was stupid. Once they were there, they would look at the other items in my store which were properly priced. The only coin at the time that was always higher was our friends 11 cent piece that was priced at eight million IIRC. Those of you that have been around here for awhile know exactly what I'm talking about.
     
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  9. SuperDave

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    Frankly, there's a difference in my reaction to (for example) Steve Contursi throwing a ridiculously-priced coin onto Ebay as free advertisement, and the official auctioneer of record for the 2017 ANA National Money Show doing the same thing.
     
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  10. mikenoodle

    mikenoodle The Village Idiot Supporter

    not to mention that when a discussion thread (like this one) is posted, the amount of exposure the listing get goes viral...
     
  11. fiddlehead

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    It says it's available, but just below that it's marked "sold". hmm?
     
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  12. Coinlover67

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    Exactly, I think that is the reason for the high price. Look around at other items with the same thing. They are all sold too.

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