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<p>[QUOTE="adric22, post: 1523382, member: 38146"]All of my coins are for long-term investment. I only buy for bullion content.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, there have been several I could have turned around for instant profit. Sometimes you have to find people selling stuff that they don't know anything about.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, if I wanted to search for silver quarters I'd type in "silver quarter" in ebay's search field. However, if you want to take the time to sort through you can do a search like this "1953 quarter -silver" This means you want to find all 1953 quarters but you'll only see those who's title does <u>not</u> include the word silver. Obviously anyone who knows what they have will put silver or 90% in the title to increase search hits. However, it takes a lot of time to search this way, especially since there are so many different years and whatnot. But I've managed on occasion to by junk silver at half-price because nobody else was bidding on the stuff due to the poor description.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good deals can be had on eBay but it takes a lot of extra work. I actually bid on nearly 100 items a day sometimes. But I only win a very small percentage of them. In fact, most days I don't win anything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="adric22, post: 1523382, member: 38146"]All of my coins are for long-term investment. I only buy for bullion content. However, there have been several I could have turned around for instant profit. Sometimes you have to find people selling stuff that they don't know anything about. For example, if I wanted to search for silver quarters I'd type in "silver quarter" in ebay's search field. However, if you want to take the time to sort through you can do a search like this "1953 quarter -silver" This means you want to find all 1953 quarters but you'll only see those who's title does [U]not[/U] include the word silver. Obviously anyone who knows what they have will put silver or 90% in the title to increase search hits. However, it takes a lot of time to search this way, especially since there are so many different years and whatnot. But I've managed on occasion to by junk silver at half-price because nobody else was bidding on the stuff due to the poor description. Good deals can be had on eBay but it takes a lot of extra work. I actually bid on nearly 100 items a day sometimes. But I only win a very small percentage of them. In fact, most days I don't win anything.[/QUOTE]
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