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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 4528721, member: 82322"]If you aren’t getting views or hits, the price isn’t the problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>eBay is no longer an auction site. Currently there are 56k items for Roman Imperial. Only 2.4k are auction items. 4.3%. Most of the “auction” items have a start bid set so high that they don’t attract any bids. (For example I looked at the next 50 items to hammer — right now — and only 3 out of 50 (6% had any bids). Thus only about 0.3% of eBay’s Roman Imperial is true auctions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most eBay sellers would rather pay listing fees forever than take a small loss and buy new inventory. Your coins are getting lost among the no-turnover turkeys.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin looks good. It is currently listed on eBay. Your listing says “Provenance: Ex Halan J Berk”. (Spell it right.) If it was in one of Harlan’s sales, give his auction and lot number. Give the sales/ticket price if it is higher than what you are asking. You are in Canada. You explain your shipping method: good. Many Americans don’t like to import because of customs difficulty.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are listing only 11 items. If I stumble across a coin with bids I usually look at the seller’s other items. Put many coins up together to get folks who want to save on shipping. Also, if you have one coin, people will look to see if you are selling any fakes. You only have one ancient coin so I didn’t look at the other ones to judge your competence. There isn’t a lot of crossover between slabbed Canadian coins, Chinese charms, and Roman denarii. This makes it hard to cross-sell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 4528721, member: 82322"]If you aren’t getting views or hits, the price isn’t the problem. eBay is no longer an auction site. Currently there are 56k items for Roman Imperial. Only 2.4k are auction items. 4.3%. Most of the “auction” items have a start bid set so high that they don’t attract any bids. (For example I looked at the next 50 items to hammer — right now — and only 3 out of 50 (6% had any bids). Thus only about 0.3% of eBay’s Roman Imperial is true auctions. Most eBay sellers would rather pay listing fees forever than take a small loss and buy new inventory. Your coins are getting lost among the no-turnover turkeys. Your coin looks good. It is currently listed on eBay. Your listing says “Provenance: Ex Halan J Berk”. (Spell it right.) If it was in one of Harlan’s sales, give his auction and lot number. Give the sales/ticket price if it is higher than what you are asking. You are in Canada. You explain your shipping method: good. Many Americans don’t like to import because of customs difficulty. You are listing only 11 items. If I stumble across a coin with bids I usually look at the seller’s other items. Put many coins up together to get folks who want to save on shipping. Also, if you have one coin, people will look to see if you are selling any fakes. You only have one ancient coin so I didn’t look at the other ones to judge your competence. There isn’t a lot of crossover between slabbed Canadian coins, Chinese charms, and Roman denarii. This makes it hard to cross-sell.[/QUOTE]
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