Collector's Universe inspire PCGS

nexlevelnmx

I know the title may be strange
But since being unapoletically thrown out of eBay, for no real doing worth causing a ruckus over, I have decided to make a website in respect to PCGS mainly with their coins for sale

Pro PCGS i am, i'd like help and someone to help me build and add inventory

PM me and this isnt PCGS endorsed but consider it a site that premier coins get listed, mainly to satisfy the true collector.

nexlevelnmx

I wont be doing it through Wix

Any help appreciated.

thanks

jmlanzaf

I can't see anything going wrong here.

nexlevelnmx

Nor should there be

I need help building a website from this forum

jmlanzaf

@nexlevelnmx said:
Nor should there be

I need help building a website from this forum

If you don't see the problems, I'm not going to bother trying to point them out to you. Good luck

djm

@nexlevelnmx said:
Nor should there be

I need help building a website from this forum

Two words of advice Go Daddy

Cladiator

skier07

WTF

TurboSnail

Google translate didn't help.

Fraz

emeraldATV

Did you ever notice this on the home page of CU
Search box - rolled tobacco
Go button - the filter
Collectors Universe logo above - smoke from the fire of the subliminal cigarette.
I know it's just paradellio.
Got a extra cigarette ?

Cranium_Basher73

BStrauss3

"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."

John von Neumann

It also applies to building an eCommerce site without knowing - deeply and explicitly - what you are doing.

Find a reputable hosting company (not the Elephant Killers and not Wix). Buy their eCommerce package and plug in the store content.

What you will find is that the several thousand dollars it will cost you is far more than the fees you would have paid on fleaBay.

Dropdaflag

@BStrauss3
Don' forget you will lose the views of millions of possible customers who will not even know about your new site. Advertising will be sky high.

jmlanzaf

@Dropdaflag said:
@BStrauss3
Don' forget you will lose the views of millions of possible customers who will not even know about your new site. Advertising will be sky high.

And you lack all of the guarantees ebay provides to the buyer which means it will be a challenge to build confidence in the potential customer base.

[Not to mention that the site is being run by someone who managed to get themselves banned from eBay for the way they were running their operation there. ]

BStrauss3

@jmlanzaf said:
[Not to mention that the site is being run by someone who managed to get themselves banned from eBay for the way they were running their operation there. ]

Yep, special skills and the kind of recommendation I look for when I go buying coins.

airplanenut

If this is successful, maybe it can replace the online marketplace PCGS/CU already owns.

Manifest_Destiny

erscolo

More wasted time. On to the next thing to kill time.

NewEnglandRarities

@nexlevelnmx said:
Nor should there be

I need help building a website from this forum

Hey Nexlevel

So, I know you are trying to look to a new area for business and sales. As others have mentioned, if one has a plan for a coin business that has any chance of being successful, one of the first answered questions a potential business owner would research would be the venue and costs associated. I think you are getting the responses you are in part because your statement of “I need help building a website from this forum”. Too many here (forget the eBay thing for a second which had mixed results for a perspective new business), that may seem like you have not really researched the true costs and work needed to make a successful business growing.

As a dealer for over 20 years, I’ve learned a lot and made plenty of mistakes in the beginning. I think it may be better for you to come up with a business plan, knowing costs, projected sales, what you are going to handle, etc. (need more than just PCGS based as a plan). A coin business owner needs to have an educated answer for this as otherwise failure within a year is a real possibility.

Expenses are a real issue, finding the coins requires often travel and other expenses, bourse tables maybe? Certainly advertising as you will have a period for a few years before any momentum comes assuming business is done correctly and you have a focused inventory concept. Remember, as others have said, eBay allows product to be in front of thousands of eyes, this is more difficult being on your own without something different than every other seller out there.

My point is I guess in a nutshell, people do not necessarily consider how truly difficult a successful coin business is to run, maintain, and grow. It is not just a matter of putting some coins on a website and hoping. If you build it, they will not necessarily come, unlike in field of dreams! Hope some of this helped!

Crackout

You are correct, the title is strange! Perhaps a title referring to the building of a website would be more accurate for the content of this thread.

spyglassdesign

The only assistance I can offer is that shopify may be the easiest method of entry and the cheapest way of starting out. I used it to start up my site. I haven't advertised it much because I do most of my stuff on ebay, but it's there and it works very well. I did have one customer find it to avoid ebay fees once tho.

Good luck!

jmlanzaf

@NewEnglandRarities said:

@nexlevelnmx said:
Nor should there be

I need help building a website from this forum

Hey Nexlevel

So, I know you are trying to look to a new area for business and sales. As others have mentioned, if one has a plan for a coin business that has any chance of being successful, one of the first answered questions a potential business owner would research would be the venue and costs associated. I think you are getting the responses you are in part because your statement of “I need help building a website from this forum”. Too many here (forget the eBay thing for a second which had mixed results for a perspective new business), that may seem like you have not really researched the true costs and work needed to make a successful business growing.

As a dealer for over 20 years, I’ve learned a lot and made plenty of mistakes in the beginning. I think it may be better for you to come up with a business plan, knowing costs, projected sales, what you are going to handle, etc. (need more than just PCGS based as a plan). A coin business owner needs to have an educated answer for this as otherwise failure within a year is a real possibility.

Expenses are a real issue, finding the coins requires often travel and other expenses, bourse tables maybe? Certainly advertising as you will have a period for a few years before any momentum comes assuming business is done correctly and you have a focused inventory concept. Remember, as others have said, eBay allows product to be in front of thousands of eyes, this is more difficult being on your own without something different than every other seller out there.

My point is I guess in a nutshell, people do not necessarily consider how truly difficult a successful coin business is to run, maintain, and grow. It is not just a matter of putting some coins on a website and hoping. If you build it, they will not necessarily come, unlike in field of dreams! Hope some of this helped!

Agree. EBay makes people think it's easier than it is because they do a lot behind the scenes that eBay haters tend to dismiss and the ignorant tend to ignore.

Ebay made it so you can snap a picture with your cell phone and hit a couple of buttons and you're in business.

Ebay also creates a variable cost model with potentially no fixed costs. A private business, including a private website, has fixed costs.

Ebay also provides site integrity and trust that can be hard to generate for an internet only enterprise.