Poll: Where do you get your coins?/What % do you return?
wingedliberty
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I thought about this recently:
For me , its as follows:
1. Ebay: 40%
2. shows 40%
3. dealers(sight seen in person,excluding shows, local shops, coin clubs, etc.) 10%
4. dealers (mail order) 10%
Part II
: What % do you return: For me: 5% at most.
How about you?
Brian.
For me , its as follows:
1. Ebay: 40%
2. shows 40%
3. dealers(sight seen in person,excluding shows, local shops, coin clubs, etc.) 10%
4. dealers (mail order) 10%
Part II
: What % do you return: For me: 5% at most.
How about you?
Brian.
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shows ....20%
Internet dealer 5%
returns < 1%
Ebay 99.999%
All others .001%
Now it is:
Online dealers:50%
Shows: 30%
Local Dealers: 19.999%
Ebay: .001%
My return % is about 0%.
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Brian.
2-0%
3-0%
4-100%
returns <1%
Internet dealers 70%
Shows 20%
E-Bay 0%
Return rate = 10% (only because I got 3 body bags on the local dealer's coins so I sold them back... at a profit after 4 months!!!)
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Type collector since 1981
Current focus 1855 date type set
Brian.
40% from dealers at shows - 0% returns
20% from Ebay - 80% returns
I am sick and tired of buying CERTIFIED PCGS and NGC coins that are "one coin unders", sold by dealers who do bulk submissions to the grading services, that try and get full retail for a coin, that if anyone could see in person, would never sell at all. Thank God for good return policies. Sorry if I sound bitter, but I just got two coins in the mail today - a 1949-D PCGS MS66 Washington and a 1948 NGC MS66 Washington that made me question whether anyone even looked at them, much less graded them before they were slabbed.
Andy
First POTD 9/19/05!!
As for returns, buying from a local shop, I can return anything without hassle, even if I come across a better coin from another source. If my local shop comes across a better coin, they will give me full credit for the previously purchased coin.
While I have to wait for items I am seeking to come along to the local shops, it is well worth the wait.
2. shows 25%
3. dealers(sight seen in person,excluding shows, local shops, coin clubs, etc.) 5%
4. dealers (mail order) Never
I don't return too many. I am picky when I buy on Ebay. Then I don't use teletrade too often because of high buying fees and crappy coins I have to return.
I usually go about 95% dealers at shows and 5% e-bay.
The e-bay coins are usually common stuff (proof sets and the like) purchased when I need a fix between shows.
Never returned anything.
-JamminJ
I do spurts on Ebay. Kind of a feast or famine kind of thing. I don't get into this "just junk on Ebay" mentality. Ebay is like a giant auction. There's good and bad, and it's a matter of sifting through it all.
I used to get a lot of stuff through larger internet dealers, but unless the pieces were PQ, the prices weren't reasonable, to me anyway.
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Ebay Stuff
Neil
1. Ebay 30%
2. Long Beach Show 60%
3. Internet Dealers 10%
Return rates about 5%
Tom
2. Shows - 30%, returns - 0%
3. eBay/Teletrade - 10%, returns - <5%
2. shows 10%....no returns
3. online dealers 30%...50% return
4. known dealers that I buy from consistently 40%...no returns
RELLA
who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
twenty times.
Mail Order: 5%
Returns: 0%
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What would your slabbed coins be worth if the grading services went out of business? What would your coins be worth if the Internet was taken offline for good?