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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fourarms, post: 840866, member: 24029&quot;]<b>What I learned trying to sell coins on ebay.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I started selling pennies on ebay and sales were great.</p><p>No overhead because pennies or cents are cheap.</p><p>I was making a few hundred bucks a month and was giving a third of it to ebay and paypal.</p><p>My biggest problem turned out was time.</p><p>I could post auctions and have inventory.</p><p>But I lived a hour from the post office and had a 40 hour week job and went to college 15 credits a semester.</p><p>People would buy up my auctions and then I would not have time to mail 100 packages for sometimes a week or two and I hate to say it a month sometimes. This is embaressing like my spelling.</p><p>I hate to blame midterms or finals on my lack of speedyness sending the coins out.</p><p>I got bad feedback for it but people allmost allways messaged me telling me how happy they were.</p><p>So my advise is if you want to do this make sure you can stick to it.</p><p>Make sure you have time to do it and dinner or laundry.</p><p>Trying to run a ebay store when you live off the grid in the middle of the forest is not easy.</p><p>I started renting a brick and mortar store to house my growing penny collection.</p><p>It was better then sitting in the woods in my filled fifthwheel trailor.</p><p>Anyway the coin store idea poofed when I decided to double it as a internet cafe for a small mountain community.</p><p>16 months later I closed up never making a profit.</p><p>I had to scrap the coin side of business because my customers were shady.</p><p>I could not leave anyone alone at the business.</p><p>So second piece of advice.</p><p>Dont tell anyone about your coins (TREASURE) that does not need to know.</p><p>The part of northern CA I live in has many meth users.</p><p>They would froth at the mouth all the way to change machines at the casino if they ever found my hoard.</p><p>So I started a business from a few pennies or cents and got all the way to a brick and mortar retail store with business license and paying taxes and the whole shabang.</p><p>Its not that hard.</p><p>If you love do it.</p><p>And dont stop trying to improve.</p><p>Whoever above said customer service is important they were right.</p><p>Customers are your ideas lifeline.</p><p>It is ten times cheaper to make a customer happy then it is to find a new customer.</p><p>Oh and it makes everyones life better by making another person happy.</p><p>ANyway good day all enjoyed all the above reading.</p><p>I realy like the pennylady&#039;s story and the jokes did help keep me reading.</p><p>Thanks all[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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