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<p>[QUOTE="nerosmyfavorite68, post: 8267834, member: 134416"]Yes, there must be business reasons why the auction places choose DHL.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've noticed that post is almost always available from the fixed price guys, and with the auction guys, DHL/FedEx. Since a coin is pretty much dead to me if it's not fixed price, it's not a problem which I frequently experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said, I can put up with the unnecessarily high postage, as long as the service is ok. For if I love the coin, who's going to remember in 10 years how it was shipped? If the service is highly inferior (dumped at the door, no signature)AND they charge way more, then we are back to the George Carlin lament, "WHYYY?!" </p><p><br /></p><p>If DHL meets the bare minimums of not dumping it off without a signature, then the somewhat high postage is the cost of doing business and I can deal with it. It wouldn't be a dealbreaker on most > $300 coins. Opportunity cost would be much more prevalent for sub-$300 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The post is a funny thing; the package from Numiscorner (France) arrived amazingly quickly, while the ones from London Ancients take about two weeks on the dot (it must be a UK customs thing). This is <i>not </i>a complaint as I'm perfectly comfortable with ordering from both firms. </p><p><br /></p><p>I've only had one lost USPS coin in my 30 years of buying coins, and that one was due to a sorter machine mishap.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="nerosmyfavorite68, post: 8267834, member: 134416"]Yes, there must be business reasons why the auction places choose DHL. I've noticed that post is almost always available from the fixed price guys, and with the auction guys, DHL/FedEx. Since a coin is pretty much dead to me if it's not fixed price, it's not a problem which I frequently experience. Like I said, I can put up with the unnecessarily high postage, as long as the service is ok. For if I love the coin, who's going to remember in 10 years how it was shipped? If the service is highly inferior (dumped at the door, no signature)AND they charge way more, then we are back to the George Carlin lament, "WHYYY?!" If DHL meets the bare minimums of not dumping it off without a signature, then the somewhat high postage is the cost of doing business and I can deal with it. It wouldn't be a dealbreaker on most > $300 coins. Opportunity cost would be much more prevalent for sub-$300 coins. The post is a funny thing; the package from Numiscorner (France) arrived amazingly quickly, while the ones from London Ancients take about two weeks on the dot (it must be a UK customs thing). This is [I]not [/I]a complaint as I'm perfectly comfortable with ordering from both firms. I've only had one lost USPS coin in my 30 years of buying coins, and that one was due to a sorter machine mishap.[/QUOTE]
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