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<p>[QUOTE="fred13, post: 1813591, member: 20688"]Its important to keep in mind that it's very difficult to maintain an online store and sell low value coins from a financial point of view. There are immense problems involved such as slow inventory turnover to profit margin relative to time involved and so on. Sometimes you can get lucky and find a store such as the "koreacoins.com" you listed but for the most part they don't exist or as in your example cease to exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect to a limited degree 20th century proof foreign silver. These coins in themselves are extremely hard to find as the only ones typically available are selling for more than 3x what they are worth. These in themselves aren't cheap; typically $30-$40 a coin so I can only imagine how tough it might be to find lower value modern coins online.</p><p><br /></p><p>From a practical standpoint the best thing to do imo is to invest a software or something of the like that sends you instant alerts of when new auctions occur on ebay with the specific words you had requested. While this isn't a particularly great way of obtaining what you want you would be surprised as to how many auctions happen on ebay that you miss.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="fred13, post: 1813591, member: 20688"]Its important to keep in mind that it's very difficult to maintain an online store and sell low value coins from a financial point of view. There are immense problems involved such as slow inventory turnover to profit margin relative to time involved and so on. Sometimes you can get lucky and find a store such as the "koreacoins.com" you listed but for the most part they don't exist or as in your example cease to exist. I collect to a limited degree 20th century proof foreign silver. These coins in themselves are extremely hard to find as the only ones typically available are selling for more than 3x what they are worth. These in themselves aren't cheap; typically $30-$40 a coin so I can only imagine how tough it might be to find lower value modern coins online. From a practical standpoint the best thing to do imo is to invest a software or something of the like that sends you instant alerts of when new auctions occur on ebay with the specific words you had requested. While this isn't a particularly great way of obtaining what you want you would be surprised as to how many auctions happen on ebay that you miss.[/QUOTE]
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