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<p>[QUOTE="Billy Kingsley, post: 807372, member: 19456"]Charmy, it's a tough call. You don't have time to do all the work required, but having more photos would likely allow you to sell more. But then selling more, would require more work for you to begin with, and it starts to become a catch-22. </p><p> </p><p>And what do you do with the pictures of coins you've sold? In theory they will begin to outnumber the coins you have on hand within a matter of months. </p><p> </p><p>What I would do, with coins I sold, if I were into selling coins, I would keep all the old images as a gallery of things I've sold in the past. One of the comic shops I frequented when we could afford to collect Golden Age comics scanned the covers of the major comics they sold and used them as wall decorations in the store. It was impressive!</p><p> </p><p>I know how much time it takes to do photos. I have nearly 10,000 on my website, which has been an accumulation dating back to August of 2004. It takes a TON of time to work through them, especially if each one is properly labeled (I've been saying I will label everything since 2004, so far I've done one album that has only about 675 photos, and the few things that are labeled before I upload them. </p><p> </p><p>If I lived closer to you, I would do photographs for you in exchange for lower circulated common dates. But, I happen to live pretty much exactly opposite of the continent! That, and I have not mastered photographing cents yet. I can do dollars pretty good though <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p>By the way, here is my website in case anyone wants to visit it. The numismatic section is locked but there's tons of stuff on there. I am especially proud of the Nature Shots and Trips section. Especially the later parts of the albums, as my photography skills have vastly improved over the years!</p><p><a href="http://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/" rel="nofollow">http://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Billy Kingsley, post: 807372, member: 19456"]Charmy, it's a tough call. You don't have time to do all the work required, but having more photos would likely allow you to sell more. But then selling more, would require more work for you to begin with, and it starts to become a catch-22. And what do you do with the pictures of coins you've sold? In theory they will begin to outnumber the coins you have on hand within a matter of months. What I would do, with coins I sold, if I were into selling coins, I would keep all the old images as a gallery of things I've sold in the past. One of the comic shops I frequented when we could afford to collect Golden Age comics scanned the covers of the major comics they sold and used them as wall decorations in the store. It was impressive! I know how much time it takes to do photos. I have nearly 10,000 on my website, which has been an accumulation dating back to August of 2004. It takes a TON of time to work through them, especially if each one is properly labeled (I've been saying I will label everything since 2004, so far I've done one album that has only about 675 photos, and the few things that are labeled before I upload them. If I lived closer to you, I would do photographs for you in exchange for lower circulated common dates. But, I happen to live pretty much exactly opposite of the continent! That, and I have not mastered photographing cents yet. I can do dollars pretty good though :) By the way, here is my website in case anyone wants to visit it. The numismatic section is locked but there's tons of stuff on there. I am especially proud of the Nature Shots and Trips section. Especially the later parts of the albums, as my photography skills have vastly improved over the years! [URL]http://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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