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Message:: [QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 1364548, member: 25270"]Here's what I mean by that statement. When you deal with foreign/world coins as I do, many, many of them have a book value of 10-20 cents. No one is going to start an auction for 10 cents knowing that the coin will probably sell for that much. EBay and Paypal fees are much more than that. Basically a dollar is the minimum you can economically sell an item for. For example, I am completing a set of modern Mexican coins. When I need coins from the 1990s, their book value is basically nothing because they made tens of millions of them, but that doesn't mean I expect to get them for free. I am willing to pay $2-$3 a piece shipped because that's the price you pay for the convenience of being able to buy what you need and have it sent to your home. Do I care if the seller makes a profit? Not particularly, but I understand that he isn't running a charity either and I don't expect him to lose money on a deal. It's one thing when you're buying a peace dollar or something like that and try to get it for less than the book value, but there's a certain minimum price that it's not practical to go below. I sell coins at the lowest practical cost and ship them cheaper than 90 percent of people on eBay, and that's why it's frustrating to have someone quibble about the price.[/QUOTE]