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<p>[QUOTE="Jim-P, post: 7855759, member: 118020"]The overhead costs will eat you up. In any business. A lot of people don't understand about fees and operating costs. Plus everything from taking the time to take reasonably good pictures to having a stockpile of various size boxes cluttering up the closet/room/house. I tend to use small and medium size USPS regular and flat rate boxes exclusively.</p><p><br /></p><p>In response to your question if not ebay, who? I have seen posts in this forum of other sale and auction sites. I've used <a href="https://www.usacoinbook.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.usacoinbook.com/" rel="nofollow">usacoinbook</a>, despite it looks to me that they are primarily for cheap common coins and people looking for a deep discount. I've had some success there. As you indicate, there is the consideration of how long to hold something at market price vs. letting it go just to move it and keep cash flowing. Certainly your situation as a business is different than mine as a hobbyist, but sometimes I put coins at auction on usacoinbook with a ridiculously low starting bid just to "get rid of them."</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck with finding a site with low fees, high traffic, and buyers![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jim-P, post: 7855759, member: 118020"]The overhead costs will eat you up. In any business. A lot of people don't understand about fees and operating costs. Plus everything from taking the time to take reasonably good pictures to having a stockpile of various size boxes cluttering up the closet/room/house. I tend to use small and medium size USPS regular and flat rate boxes exclusively. In response to your question if not ebay, who? I have seen posts in this forum of other sale and auction sites. I've used [URL='https://www.usacoinbook.com/']usacoinbook[/URL], despite it looks to me that they are primarily for cheap common coins and people looking for a deep discount. I've had some success there. As you indicate, there is the consideration of how long to hold something at market price vs. letting it go just to move it and keep cash flowing. Certainly your situation as a business is different than mine as a hobbyist, but sometimes I put coins at auction on usacoinbook with a ridiculously low starting bid just to "get rid of them." Good luck with finding a site with low fees, high traffic, and buyers![/QUOTE]
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