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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 41082, member: 669&quot;]I suspect that you have just started selling coins after getting a lot of experience selling other things.&nbsp; Coins are much different from many other things successfully sold on EBay. <ul> <li>There is a very large pool of knowledgeable buyers, who won&#039;t bid unless they get clear photographs and complete accurate descriptions.</li> <li>Serious collectors are very aware of postage costs, and avoid sellers whose charges appear to be a backdoor to more profit, or at least reduce their bids as JBK points out.</li> <li>Many coins have no particular numismatic value, and are basically worth their instrinsic metal value, but</li> <li>Many other coins have little or no instrinsic value, but potentially huge numismatic value.</li> <li>If you aren&#039;t knowledgeable about the particular coin(s) you are offering you will either overprice them and get no bids, or underprice them and leave significant value on the table.</li> <li>Most collectors specialize, and a bunch of coins that aren&#039;t even identified as to country of origin are not likely to attract their bids.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Considering the weight of your item - a whole box of unidentified coins in 2x2s -, <i>perhaps</i> your S/H isn&#039;t &quot;grossly&quot; excessive, but usually coins can be shipped by first class mail at much less cost than the minimum parcel post, UPS or Fedex charge.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as 1¢ starting bids go, there are many successful sellers who start all their auctions there, including the ones for valuable gold coins or true rarities that sell for thousands of dollars.&nbsp; <b>But</b>, they attract knowledgeable buyers by providing multiple clear pictures, detailed descriptions, and in most cases having first established their reputation as sellers of high quality coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please forgive my bluntness, but you did ask.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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