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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 3975806, member: 13650&quot;]Anybody who thinks selling is as quick and easy as walking into a dealers shop and getting a nice fair offer is delusional.&nbsp; &nbsp; You buy things on ebay and there is a large markup to cover the sellers costs of using ebay.&nbsp; You go to trade or sell to a dealer, (assuming its a highly desirable piece their even willing to purchase from you), the offer will be much less than you&#039;re expecting.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; If you want remotely close to what you bought at, you need to sell to the public yourself and WAIT.&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t mean you get to decide to sell something tomorrow and walk away with your cash.&nbsp; It may take all year for someone to come along that wants what you have at your asking price!&nbsp; Maybe even after a little negotiating.&nbsp; &nbsp; <b><u>People are cheap!&nbsp; Dealers have over head!</u></b>&nbsp;&nbsp; You&#039;re always fighting a current buying and selling.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most smart sellers are doing what you have to do and sitting on product until they get what they want.&nbsp; &nbsp; Very few collectors appreciate what coins are actually worth and are able to pay.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I will say ebay is expensive because people don&#039;t want to eat the fees.&nbsp; They want what they want after the sale and you pay the extra fees.&nbsp; I bought a type coin at a show recently that a dealer had listed on ebay for $800.&nbsp;&nbsp; In person at the show, he let it go for $600.&nbsp; It was a barber and absolute bottom dollar.&nbsp; I saved a screen shot on my phone.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I bought another coin off ebay a couple years ago for $1525.&nbsp; Highly desirable.&nbsp; Had a dealer offer me $1k for it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Passed.&nbsp; Ended up selling on ebay for $1375.&nbsp; So I lost fees out of that too.&nbsp; Still more than the dealer, (but not a lot more) and obviously less than I had in it.&nbsp;&nbsp; To buy it, the original seller wouldn&#039;t budge off price.&nbsp; So what&#039;s the value of the coin?&nbsp; They&#039;d probably still have it for sale at the same price if I hadn&#039;t bought it originally.&nbsp; If you want it&nbsp; you pay.&nbsp; If not, no sale.&nbsp; No way to know what the value is other than a &quot;range&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;ve found I can usually break even or close if I need to.&nbsp;&nbsp; Shows is where it&#039;s at.&nbsp; Auction sites are convenient but you pay for that convenience and don&#039;t expect to get it all back if you need to sell.&nbsp;&nbsp; For most it&#039;s a hobby.&nbsp; To some it&#039;s a business.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The motives and ambitions of the two parties are not the same.&nbsp; &nbsp; I never buy anything with the intention of selling later and rarely do.&nbsp; But it doesn&#039;t hurt to sell once in a while just to find out what people are willing to pay to help guide your buying.&nbsp; Happy new year all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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