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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1746708, member: 19463&quot;]I hate to be unkind but there are many coins offered on eBay and other venues that actually are not worth as much as the shipping cost.&nbsp; This is especially true when buying from a different country.&nbsp; Many ancient coins are trashy and worth only a dollar or two but it will cost the seller half a dollar to put it in an envelope (more if he uses a padded mailer).&nbsp;&nbsp; The same coin mailed overseas will easily cost more to mail than it is worth.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I posted a thread today showing my new &#039;treasure&#039; - a scarce to rare variety of the common Falling Horseman coin.&nbsp; The seller required 8.85 Great Britain Pounds postage and the final winning bid was 5.50 GBP so I paid 14.35 GBP or $22.41 US.&nbsp; I really do not understand why someone in the UK didn&#039;t outbid me for the coin (I assume postage would have been less for shipment within the country or origin)&nbsp; but they didn&#039;t and I was willing to pay a total of $22.41 for the coin.&nbsp; It really made little difference how it was split up.&nbsp; Had the seller stated the postage would be 1.28 GBP (the amount of postage on the envelope) or even 3 GBP to allow for the cost of the envelope and the trouble of writing a small note hoping I would enjoy the coin, I suspect there might have been other bids but he chose to gouge on postage and scare off bidders who probably think of him as a crook.&nbsp; Many sellers offer one price for shipping no matter how expensive the coin.&nbsp; That can cause low value coins not to sell at all.&nbsp;&nbsp; I did not buy the coin because I thought the dealer was an astute or even fair businessman; I bid because I thought that coin was worth $22.41 (slightly more since my top bid was a GBP more than turned out to be required).&nbsp; Read the listings, decide the total delivered value to you, subtract the cost of postage and bid that amount - no more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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