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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 7803779, member: 74282"]It's been a few years since I bought any Imperial coins, but these prices do seem pretty high to me. I am surprised Heritage can sell common LRBs for this much, even though these are in excellent condition. That said, Heritage certainly has an advantage over <i>you</i> since they have advertising, a huge list of clients, some of whom are terrified of buying coins anywhere except Heritage, etc. Personally when I'm considering bidding on a coin somewhere like eBay or even with new, unknown(to me) sellers on sites like Biddr, or even buying a coin from someone on Cointalk, I do take into consideration their reputation and the amount of hoops I might have to jump through to get what I paid for and to get a refund if something goes wrong. In theory it's easy with eBay, but that is not always my experience. When all that is factored in, it's hard for me to be willing to pay the same price to some random person that I might bid at CNG or NAC with whom I know I'll have a good experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I do sell coins on eBay from time to time. I never go with auctions, always fixed price, and I always factor in all the fees and shipping costs, and I always make them US-only, just because I prefer not to sell internationally to people who are completely unknown to me - usually I do allow international when selling on places such as Cointalk or the various Facebook groups. Then I wait. Average time is about 2 months, sometimes it takes closer to a year, but I've managed to sell everything I've listed there. Sometimes I'll even use the feature where I can set automatically accepted BIN prices which makes it even easier. It's really not any faster than consigning and selling at a major auction, but for $100ish coins, it's easier and in general more profitable than trying to sell them at auction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 7803779, member: 74282"]It's been a few years since I bought any Imperial coins, but these prices do seem pretty high to me. I am surprised Heritage can sell common LRBs for this much, even though these are in excellent condition. That said, Heritage certainly has an advantage over [I]you[/I] since they have advertising, a huge list of clients, some of whom are terrified of buying coins anywhere except Heritage, etc. Personally when I'm considering bidding on a coin somewhere like eBay or even with new, unknown(to me) sellers on sites like Biddr, or even buying a coin from someone on Cointalk, I do take into consideration their reputation and the amount of hoops I might have to jump through to get what I paid for and to get a refund if something goes wrong. In theory it's easy with eBay, but that is not always my experience. When all that is factored in, it's hard for me to be willing to pay the same price to some random person that I might bid at CNG or NAC with whom I know I'll have a good experience. That said, I do sell coins on eBay from time to time. I never go with auctions, always fixed price, and I always factor in all the fees and shipping costs, and I always make them US-only, just because I prefer not to sell internationally to people who are completely unknown to me - usually I do allow international when selling on places such as Cointalk or the various Facebook groups. Then I wait. Average time is about 2 months, sometimes it takes closer to a year, but I've managed to sell everything I've listed there. Sometimes I'll even use the feature where I can set automatically accepted BIN prices which makes it even easier. It's really not any faster than consigning and selling at a major auction, but for $100ish coins, it's easier and in general more profitable than trying to sell them at auction.[/QUOTE]
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