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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 8498803, member: 88829&quot;]I don&#039;t get on the list much anymore, but I do wish to thank all of you who took time to reply.&nbsp; I was intrigued by the variety of approaches you were considering, but puzzled by an assumption that seemed to be applied to eBay selling.&nbsp; </p><p>More than one or two of you related the experience of not getting as much for items you sold on eBay as you might have wished. Presumably you had offered it at auction.</p><p>From my window it seems rather suicidal for an unknown seller on eBay to offer material for auction.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been an eBay buyer since 1998 or so, and for the selling of this material would be inclined to offer all of it as buy it now, based upon what I paid for it whenever (adjusted for strength of economy). Some of it would certainly go as group lots, probably discounted a bit in aggregate from individual original prices.&nbsp; But, adjusting for economic flux, individual coins ought to be worth something like what I paid for them, except where I lost my head and got caught up in something at the time (you know what I mean, I am sure).</p><p><br /></p><p>But maybe there is something about buy-it-now selling I am overlooking.&nbsp; I assume that if something does not sell I can offer it again at a different price, but I do not know what happens to the eBay fee structure for offering an unsold at a new price. Do the listing fees start all over again for second offer of unsolds? </p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand -</p><p>If/When consigning to an auction house the one thing I don&#039;t want is cherry picking that dumps a high percentage of the consignment into the group lots at the end of the sale.&nbsp; Nonetheless, barring exceptional items, Roman imperial bronze and silver is not the sort of material that takes up a lot of catalog space in CNG (print), Berk, Leu, NFA, and such. Even CNG electronic sales might be a bit fussy when it comes to mounds of Tetrarchic bronze or imperial denarii/antoniniani even in good grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>So to learn how, I am inclined to limit my selling to duplicates and extraneous material until I get my wings.&nbsp; Does that sound about right?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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