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<p>[QUOTE="David@PCC, post: 2541365, member: 80556"]I can only imagine that was a hard decision for you, and I wish you the best of luck. On the other hand visiting so many countries seems like a great idea and fun! I opened my online store in 2003 and while over the years I've had some successes, lately virtually all my sales have come from eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some advice and I suspect you already know this is that you will probably not get as much as you paid for your coins in a lot of cases. I have always looked for coins that I thought I could turn a profit on, only less than 1 percent of what I own I set aside for myself, such as my vrbs roma beata which I pay more than what I can resell for. As a collector, which I assume has been your primary goal?; was to find examples paying at or close to their value. My other suggestion would be to keep some of your favorites or at least the ones you feel are hard to obtain. If they were hard for you to get, they will be even harder in the future if you plan to collect again as new collectors enter the field.</p><p><br /></p><p>It sounds like you plan on consigning to auctions, which I don't do a lot of so others can give their experiences there. I'm curious what kind of store you are planning? Unfortunately everyone has fees, eBay with pp is 13+%, I was on Vcoins for 6 months and they have a fee structure we can discuss via pm if you like. Again good luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="David@PCC, post: 2541365, member: 80556"]I can only imagine that was a hard decision for you, and I wish you the best of luck. On the other hand visiting so many countries seems like a great idea and fun! I opened my online store in 2003 and while over the years I've had some successes, lately virtually all my sales have come from eBay. Some advice and I suspect you already know this is that you will probably not get as much as you paid for your coins in a lot of cases. I have always looked for coins that I thought I could turn a profit on, only less than 1 percent of what I own I set aside for myself, such as my vrbs roma beata which I pay more than what I can resell for. As a collector, which I assume has been your primary goal?; was to find examples paying at or close to their value. My other suggestion would be to keep some of your favorites or at least the ones you feel are hard to obtain. If they were hard for you to get, they will be even harder in the future if you plan to collect again as new collectors enter the field. It sounds like you plan on consigning to auctions, which I don't do a lot of so others can give their experiences there. I'm curious what kind of store you are planning? Unfortunately everyone has fees, eBay with pp is 13+%, I was on Vcoins for 6 months and they have a fee structure we can discuss via pm if you like. Again good luck![/QUOTE]
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