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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 1555112, member: 15309"]I really have never understood all of the hostility towards E-Bay. The fees are very reasonable when compared to the major auction houses. And while some may point out that you can negotiate a deal with an auction house and that they do all of the work, they also have minimum consignment values that you have to meet ($5K for a Heritage Signature Sale). It also occurs to me that many of the people who complain about selling on E-Bay have never actually sold anything on E-Bay. I have found that it takes very little extra effort to meet E-Bay's requirements for top rated seller status which entitles the seller to a 20% discount on final value fees. Honestly, my biggest problem with E-Bay are the clowns that send me nasty messages because they don't like how I price my coins. One guy recently wrote:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Hi i was just looking at that rainbow half dollar and was wandering if it was made that way or if it was done like most silver coins where they just heating it over a gasoline fire?"</p><p><br /></p><p>He joined E-Bay in 2009 and has a total feedback of (1). I added him to my blocked bidder list and then proceeded to quote Burt Reynolds as the Bandit talking to Sheriff Buford T Justice:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Do the letters FO mean anything to you?"</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, the E-Bay experience really comes down to the type of people that you encounter. The OP seems to have run into some really nice ones this week.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 1555112, member: 15309"]I really have never understood all of the hostility towards E-Bay. The fees are very reasonable when compared to the major auction houses. And while some may point out that you can negotiate a deal with an auction house and that they do all of the work, they also have minimum consignment values that you have to meet ($5K for a Heritage Signature Sale). It also occurs to me that many of the people who complain about selling on E-Bay have never actually sold anything on E-Bay. I have found that it takes very little extra effort to meet E-Bay's requirements for top rated seller status which entitles the seller to a 20% discount on final value fees. Honestly, my biggest problem with E-Bay are the clowns that send me nasty messages because they don't like how I price my coins. One guy recently wrote: "Hi i was just looking at that rainbow half dollar and was wandering if it was made that way or if it was done like most silver coins where they just heating it over a gasoline fire?" He joined E-Bay in 2009 and has a total feedback of (1). I added him to my blocked bidder list and then proceeded to quote Burt Reynolds as the Bandit talking to Sheriff Buford T Justice: "Do the letters FO mean anything to you?" In the end, the E-Bay experience really comes down to the type of people that you encounter. The OP seems to have run into some really nice ones this week.[/QUOTE]
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