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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 2688500, member: 38849&quot;]Are you paying sales tax on these auction purchases?&nbsp; Is there a &quot;buyer&#039;s premium&quot;?&nbsp; Is there a local CraigsList nearby?&nbsp; All of these factors influence our collective advice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quarters are OK.&nbsp; I do know that silver dollars (at estate auctions) tend to bring substantially more than they&#039;re worth, especially old worn-out CC dates, which are no doubt salted into the auctioneers&#039; inventory by local coin dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I buy at auctions are items that nobody wants and nobody knows anything about.&nbsp; They go straight to eBay.&nbsp; Only years of flea market experience can help you in that general category.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first flea market set-up was over 50 years ago, while I was still in college and needed date money, as MIT (and then a flood of competitors) had just launched computer dating on the OSU campus.&nbsp; Bars, restaurants, theaters, and bowling alleys were making TONS of money.&nbsp; The questionnaire took an hour to fill out, and you got 5 names (supposedly good &quot;matches&quot;) for $20, I believe.&nbsp; What fun!</p><p><br /></p><p>I should have become a Mormon and married 5 or 6 of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>======</p><p>I didn&#039;t quite answer your question.&nbsp; I went back and saw the 10% buyer&#039;s fee (plus sales tax?) and you can surely do better when Apmex has a &quot;deal&quot; on eBay.&nbsp; They ship free, you don&#039;t have to waste half a day, and sometimes you get as much as 8% in eBay bucks.&nbsp; My guess would be that eBay gives big bullion sellers a sweetheart deal, which Apmex uses to balance inventories and get new potential buyers&#039; (for higher mark-up items) names, emails, and addresses.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt they break even on small 90% sales.&nbsp; It&#039;s like grocery coupons, except they deliver the goods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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