Does anyone track Ebay coin prices (and if so, how consistent are the results)?

Longacre

I tend to put a lot of Ebay auction items on my "watch list", but then unfortunately I forget about them and I am not reminded until I get one of those end-of-auction emails. I have built up a fair amount of "items not won" in a list. Has anyone ever tracked the selling price consistency of items on Ebay? Ebay seems to be the Wild West in terms of auctions, so I am not sure if the data that would come out of this sort of analysis is good data, or whether it is a waste of time. Would a more mainstream auction firm, like Heritage, be a better place to determine what a true auction value would be on a certain coin, rather than Ebay? What about other numismatically related items, like coin books?

koynekwest

I do on the major doubled dies. Prices are usually all over the place. I roll 'em in with other auction results, tho, so that tends to stabilize them somewhat.

KoinDawg

One trend I've noticed is that most auctions (not just coins) tend to go lower in the middle of the month (buy time) when people are getting low on monthly cash flow and PEAK at the end of the month to beginning of the month (sell time) when people get a new cash infusion, i.e. paycheck. I accidently bought an extra PR69DCAM 1976-S IKE Type 2 proof in the middle of February for $28.76 (ebay item 8377263169) and sold it this past weekend for $40.99 (ebay item 8387887026). Not a bad return on investment in 1.5 weeks.

DNADave

They're usually somewhat consistent until I sell,

then they bottom out pretty good.

DennisH

I've tracked Morgan VAM prices for over a year. The key date ones are pretty consistent, but semi-commons are as unpredictable as spinning a roulette wheel.

The overriding theme, however, has been that PCGS coins outsell everything hands-down, and coins in "third world" holders would actually do better if sold raw.

ILikeMercs

i'm not sure how consistent they are but you can find the prices realized by clicking completed listings for any coin you choose.

Baley

I've kept an eye on all the 1802 half dollars that have sold on ebay the past 3 years.

both of them

mozin

In what I collect the Ebay prices realized are very inconsistent. All it takes is two uninformed bidders and the prices shoot for the sky. This inconsistency is not what I see in major auction house coins.

My last Ebay coin purchase was more than four months ago, too many stupid bidders.

ILikeMercs

<< <i>In what I collect the Ebay prices realized are very inconsistent. All it takes is two uninformed bidders and the prices shoot for the sky. This inconsistency is not what I see in major auction house coins.

My last Ebay coin purchase was more than four months ago, too many stupid bidders. >>




you have a point there, but do like the olympics........throw out the high and low prices...........