or am I missing something http://www.ebay.com/itm/1963-Lincol...63?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item1e87dc81b3
No, just a bidiot. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1963-Lincol...77?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item20dc653619 Wow. Nearly $3 to have one coin shipped.
Shucks, just tape it to a 3x5 index card and put it in a letter-sized envelope. It shouldn't cost more than $1 by snail mail. Who cares if the sorting machinery damages the coin! Chris
How much does it cost you to ship a bubble mailer (probably $1.50 or so). Also, how much did the mailer cost. Plus you have to factor in your time to go to the post office and your gas. I think $3 is more than reasonable. Remember...it's not just the postage. It's shipping and handling.
I would agree for a single coin. anything under $3.00 or less is reasonable in my book. (Provided it is not a rare or expensive piece.) That would apply up to, but not include, a one ounce coin. I feel bullion or commemoratives, etc... should be treated with a little more care.
Sounds like a bidder war? eBay want tracking on item sold by their name. Each seller is basically a subcontracting and eBay has their rules trying to tell seller to ship free. Bubble wrapper are not free but a smallest size still cost about $3.00 @Usps before price changes per ounce $0.50 nowadays . A good seller add that and item perceive price to start auction . That how a lot of Top Rated seller do. I would check Cointalk for sale/trade area 1st. $15.50 Lincoln Memorial cent Proof 1959-1970 shipping damage is one thing a buyers have to fret about . Only thing free hard time I hope this'd won't be one!!!!! I also hope it's high grade Deep Cameo but that's just the luck of the strike in that era ,hopefully buyer gets one of the early strike off the Proof die and not cloudy with mint wash.
A bubble mailer with postage purchased through E-Bay at the discount for a 2oz package (1 coin) costs $1.93. So your problem is that this seller is charging $1.07 for shipping supplies such as paper, bubble mailer, 2x2, tape etc?
I excluded that stuff because most people don't make a dedicated trip to the post office to mail their E-Bay sales. Most stop by on their way to somewhere else, like work for example. I'm not saying that fuel costs shouldn't be factored into the equation, just that it is not easy to calculate, so I excluded it.
A 3x5 index card and some tape. Just kidding of course. Personally, I have never needed to address that situation. All my coins have sold privately in face to face situations. That's because most are completed collections or a group of separate pieces I have moved away from. Except for gold, I like to sell as one lot. I think I did sell two separate items here on Coin Talk. One was paper currency the other in a government shipping box.
