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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1217739, member: 27832&quot;]This. The good deals go in less than two minutes (there&#039;s still a small delay between &quot;auction start&quot; and the time it starts showing up in searches). What&#039;s left is the stuff that&#039;s overpriced, &quot;merely&quot; fairly priced, or poorly described.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve missed 1 ounce gold eagles for $900, 77 Mercs for $60, a long run of respectable (G+ to F-) Barber quarters at $3.99 each. I&#039;ve landed one (of six) 1 oz silver rounds for $20 (plus $2.50 shared shipping), a Peace dollar for $21 (plus $4 shipping), a Jamestown gold $5 for $350 shipped -- all in the last week, all by camping on the BIN listings.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t always work out. I landed a 9-ounce lot of miscellaneous silver for $110 shipped, but it turned out the seller meant to list that as the starting bid, not BIN. I&#039;ve had people say that they made a mistake on the listing price, and weren&#039;t willing to sell at that price; I haven&#039;t forced the issue, because I&#039;ve been known to make mistakes, too. I&#039;ve even begged out of one or two auctions where I misunderstood the description and jumped too soon -- and gone through with a couple even though I realized afterward they weren&#039;t the good deal I first thought. But overall, the BIN-vulture strategy is working out very well for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still bid on traditional eBay auctions sometimes, too. It&#039;s hard to find real deals there, though, and I haven&#039;t yet figured out a reliable strategy for doing so. Finding the good scores just takes too much time and luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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