Sold Coins on Dealer Website
tyler267
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Why do some dealers include coins that have been long sold in the current inventory section of their website.
I just looked a dealer website that listed about 3000 really nice coins but almost 90% had the price listed as sold. I like to browse dealer websites and sometimes find things to buy. But when I see this type of situation, It frustrates me and I normally just move on.
I understand maintaining a website takes time and that coins cannot immediately removed as they are sold, but sometimes the amount of coins listed that are already sold is absurd.
I am not talking about dealers that maintain an archive of sold coins, when they are in a separate section of the website, I appreciate the time and effort that these dealers put into maintaining an archive, and I enjoy looking at the archived coins but not when I am looking for something to buy.
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To show off the quality of their offerings and make you want to look again later. If archived it looks old, left there it looks just sold. I too prefer removing or archiving sold inventory.
They should also post what they didn't buy.
Drives me nuts!! Had it happen to me today. Was excited to find a Quarter I was interested in through collectors.com. Nope, sold in 2013!!
I prefer removing them too !!!
Not sure why they do it but I do see it too. Maybe it gives the buyer time to make up their mind if they want it and that way the website doesn't have to be modified so much. A month is good but after that the coin should be taken down IMHO.
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
I make it a point to move sold coins to the Sold-Archive portion of my website. It takes up time and disk space, but it also gives folks an idea of the quality of coins that have sold in the past. To keep the clutter down, I usually remove two coins from the Archive every time I move a new sold coin to that section. I am lucky in that our site is pretty flexible about creating categories, and I can also list coin but then Unpublish them if I want to list them later. I can Unpublish categories too, which is a bugbear of mine. Nobody likes to come into a store full of empty shelves!
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George
Lazy.
I believe it's done to let you know the type of material they deal in so you will call or keep revisiting the website.
I prefer that sold coins be removed as well. If the coin is listed as "sold" or "on hold", at least list the price! How am I supposed to know if I'm interested in a coin "on hold" unless the price is listed?
I keep my website up-to-date and always remove sold coins, check it out .....
I understand, it just seems more productive to move the trophy coins to an archive where the dealer can showcase the quality of coins they offer. When I have time I like looking at great coins in archives, and it does showcase the quality of coins dealers offer.
It's asking a lot for potential buys to look through a large number of actively listed coins to find something for sale. When I browse a dealer website I look at the coin first, then the price, it is disappointing to repeatedly find coins listed on the site that have been long sold.
At some point I quit looking at the website and don't come back. It's not a big deal, I just accept the fact that every business owner runs their business the way they want and I shop elsewhere.
I'm pretty sure I know who you are talking about...because the same dealer has bitten me more than once!
If they want to keep a personal museum, that's fine. It might even be a good resource to refer to. But don't store the "museum" with your current offerings! It just mucks up the search engines. I've taken to ignoring his listings entirely, because it isn't worth the trouble.
If they have left something up there for five years, that’s ridiculous. Some dealers do have an archives section to show highlights of what they have sold.