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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gmarguli, post: 7856224, member: 246&quot;]Looks like there are multiple factors affecting you: </p><p><br /></p><p>Selling a set of items to a sight-unseen buyer is always going to result in a low sale price. Buyers are going to focus on the keys in the set and then use generic pricing for the rest. You may have a bunch of nicer examples scattered throughout the set, but buyers aren&#039;t going to spend the time to try and grade every coin online and then come up with a price. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you have the $21.95/month store, the eBay fee is 8.5%. They also provide a certain number of free listing insertions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sounds like some of the stuff you&#039;re listing is generic. eBay is horrible for generic stuff. Way too much competition. </p><p><br /></p><p>Think you&#039;ll do better melting the Walker than selling it? Think again. That Walker that melts for $8.72 and you got $7.96 wasn&#039;t below melt. You&#039;re not melting UNC Walkers. You&#039;re going to melt VF Walkers. They&#039;ll have ~10%+ less silver due to wear. Dealers almost never pay melt. When they item goes to the smelter, the dealer is going to be paid a percentage of spot. The smelter doesn&#039;t work for free. So you&#039;re going to get about $6.50-$7 for that Walker. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t charge for shipping, that is your choice. One of the keys to charging for shipping is to have enough items up for sale that a buyer doesn&#039;t factor in the shipping cost. If you charge $3 for shipping and have 10 items for sale, a bidder may only be interested in one item and they will subtract the shipping cost from their bid. Have 100 items for sale and charge a flat rate shipping and the bidders will generally go after several different items and no longer factor in the shipping charge into any of their bids. I generally run 200-350 auctions at a time and I charge a $5.95 flat rate for shipping. Around half the auctions will be sold to a person who only wins one item, but I guarantee you that person bid on several items and most likely never factored shipping into their bids because of it. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re really apprehensive about charging shipping, charge a nominal price, try 99c shipping. Most people will ignore a low cost like that. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t have one, get a postage printer with an online postage account. It&#039;s 10% (?) cheaper than mailing at the Post Office and you can hide the postage value to reduce the chance of a buyer complaining. Put in the listings that the shipping charge includes full insurance. Never buy Post Office insurance. Self insure the packages. It&#039;s an extremely small percentage of packages that will get lost. </p><p><br /></p><p>You got screwed by a buyer. Welcome to the world of business. You will continue to get screwed. People will steal from you. The Postman will forget to scan the item as delivered and the buyer will claim never received. They will return a different item to you. They will return a rock to you instead of the coin. They will claim counterfeit and eBay will allow them to keep the item and give them a refund. The credit card company will rule in their favor even though you followed all the rules. It sucks. Deal with it. Every business on the planet encounters this. Factor it into your business model or go out of business.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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