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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1257676, member: 24091&quot;]I recently sold-off one of the WTC coins on eBay and the results were frankly kind of disappointing. Was a 2001 Quarter Ounce Gold Eagle in a PCGS holder, -technically a Collectors Universe holder- and I thought with the anniversary coming up now was the time to unload it. I had originally purchased it from a coin dealer who had nothing but contempt for the piece and its packaging, which for me meant I got the coin for $25 over melt. This was about 3 years ago, so I was certain to make some money on the coin if only because bullion has risen so much.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can imagine my excitement to see similar pieces without the 2001 date on eBay with Buy-It-Now prices over a thousand. Most of them seemed to be 1999. And so I threw it on eBay starting at a dollar since I didn&#039;t want to imply what I thought it was worth, and it sold for $545.00 in a 10-day auction. After eBay and PayPal took their graft, I was left with barely $475 for a coin that I thought would fetch at least, at the VERY LEAST, something like $750. Looking back on it, I probably should have listed it as a Buy-It-Now myself, but I wanted to unload the thing and didn&#039;t want to wait around months waiting for it to sell. If you click on completed auctions after searching on WTC you will see that the coins really don&#039;t sell that well, certainly not at the prices that most people who own them think they&#039;re worth. And then after a month or two, one of them will sell for an outlandish amount, --say a proof 1984 Krugerrand for $3800-- and it gets everyone to thinking theirs will sell for idiot money too if they just wait long enough. Link to my auction:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=3&amp;campid=5335874456&amp;toolid=10001&amp;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2F190551535317" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=3&amp;campid=5335874456&amp;toolid=10001&amp;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2F190551535317" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/190551535317</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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