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<p>[QUOTE="princeofwaldo, post: 4532888, member: 24091"]I've had pretty good luck with Stack's. My only complaint about all of the large auction houses is the wait for settlement, --should be more like 14 to 21 days instead of 45. If that means they need to more thoroughly vet their bidders or require them to provide a credit card, then so be it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Agree with the earlier observation that eBay now caters primarily to the bottom feeders, which is a real shame. At one time, there were some decent coins to be had for anyone who regularly visited the site, most sold in no reserve auctions with low starting bids. The fee structure encouraged it. Now days, the fee structure provides only one incentive, to list as much junk as possible at buy-it-now prices only an imbecile would pay.</p><p><br /></p><p>And if you try to sell bullion related gold coins in no reserve auctions, plan on being out the coin and with funds frozen indefinitely in your PayPal account after the buyer claims first that it is fake, then claims it is cleaned, then claims it has been mounted, all in an effort to get eBay to void the no return policy in the auction, which eBay gladly voids. And when the buyer never mails the coin back and the funds remain frozen, you can plan on spending a month of Sundays to resolve it all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="princeofwaldo, post: 4532888, member: 24091"]I've had pretty good luck with Stack's. My only complaint about all of the large auction houses is the wait for settlement, --should be more like 14 to 21 days instead of 45. If that means they need to more thoroughly vet their bidders or require them to provide a credit card, then so be it. Agree with the earlier observation that eBay now caters primarily to the bottom feeders, which is a real shame. At one time, there were some decent coins to be had for anyone who regularly visited the site, most sold in no reserve auctions with low starting bids. The fee structure encouraged it. Now days, the fee structure provides only one incentive, to list as much junk as possible at buy-it-now prices only an imbecile would pay. And if you try to sell bullion related gold coins in no reserve auctions, plan on being out the coin and with funds frozen indefinitely in your PayPal account after the buyer claims first that it is fake, then claims it is cleaned, then claims it has been mounted, all in an effort to get eBay to void the no return policy in the auction, which eBay gladly voids. And when the buyer never mails the coin back and the funds remain frozen, you can plan on spending a month of Sundays to resolve it all.[/QUOTE]
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