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<p>[QUOTE="susanlynn9, post: 24533, member: 1258"]We have looked into the free auction sites and found that either people were offering items for way too much money which scared buyers off or they were offering complete junk which also scared buyers off. The jury is still out on Overstock.com. However, last I checked, their search function was still not operating properly so you had to look through all of the items and couldn't search for a specific coin. Also, their coin category has no subcategories. </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, any site that does not have a listing fee is subject to the scammers and uneducated who have nothing to lose by offering substandard items at a Rockefeller price. What we need is a good auction site with fees that will keep out the riff-raff but not be cost prohibitive. Ebay is the closest thus far, but we all know about the scams and fraud that go on there day after day. If eBay would eliminate the option of 1 and 3 day auctions, more of the scammers could be caught and eBay could be made a much safer trading place, which would make it ideal since eBay already has media advertising and are so well-known. Even people who have never purchased on eBay are familiar with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="susanlynn9, post: 24533, member: 1258"]We have looked into the free auction sites and found that either people were offering items for way too much money which scared buyers off or they were offering complete junk which also scared buyers off. The jury is still out on Overstock.com. However, last I checked, their search function was still not operating properly so you had to look through all of the items and couldn't search for a specific coin. Also, their coin category has no subcategories. Unfortunately, any site that does not have a listing fee is subject to the scammers and uneducated who have nothing to lose by offering substandard items at a Rockefeller price. What we need is a good auction site with fees that will keep out the riff-raff but not be cost prohibitive. Ebay is the closest thus far, but we all know about the scams and fraud that go on there day after day. If eBay would eliminate the option of 1 and 3 day auctions, more of the scammers could be caught and eBay could be made a much safer trading place, which would make it ideal since eBay already has media advertising and are so well-known. Even people who have never purchased on eBay are familiar with it.[/QUOTE]
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