What's the most important part of your auction?

laurentyvan

Whether you sell a little or a lot on eBay (or elsewhere), what do you sweat the most over?

The right image, the right description, that cute little phrase that sells the whole thing? Do you fine-tune the shipping worldwide? Perhaps the most significant part might be the coin itself?

Do you, like many sellers, bury the coin beneath layers of hype, history, backstory, seller conditions, shipping conditions, etc, etc, etc.?

I don't know, just a few questions I wish I could ask the eBay coin selling population at large.

theboz11

Selling the product. That's why I put it for auction

ajaan

<< <i>what do you sweat the most over? >>


The selling price. I sweat over that all the time especially since I start most of my auctions at 99c.




For the listing, I sweat the most over the image. The description is practically meaningless IMO. I doubt many people even read it.

TwoKopeiki

I consider honesty to be the most important part of my auctions (the 4 I've had so far ). If there's any issues with the coin (cleaned, dipped, scratched, etc), I make sure to note that along with good pictures. I always felt that if a seller is honest about problem coins - he's also honest about good, quality coins.

DesertRat

Since I don't sell coins, I can't comment on the original topic other than to say that when I come across an auction that uses large colored fonts with tons of exclamation points and asterisk's as well as an inordinate amount of adjectives to describe the item for sale, I immediately move on and don't pay it any more attention. Lotta out of work Madison Avenue ad execs out there I guess.

MSD61

For me it's making sure I have a very good image of the coin with as accurate a description and information as possible.
If bidders want to bid on coins with crappy images and DUH for information then they can go else where.

laurentyvan

The selling price. I sweat over that all the time especially since I start most of my auctions at 99c.

Aethelred

I put the most thought into my photos and my title.

bidask

I don't buy or sell on ebay.

laurentyvan

I put the most thought into my photos and my title.

That merits discussion.

For me the photo is also what I sweat the most over, sometimes as much as half an hour or longer before I'm satisfied. I work hard to make sure the coin on my screen looks like the one in my hand. I also struggle with the tiny imperfections that the enlarged coin images sometimes overemphasize in the images. I want to show the coin accurately, but I don't want to be unfair to the coin either. Having said that it's important that the buyers have no surprises in store for them when they open my packages.

The title's however are usually fairly straightforward. Here's a sample of one of mine: Italy Vatican 1930 Silver L10 AU KM#10 Toning Luster.

The description's I find the most fun to do but I'm careful with them and always tweaking so I guess I sweat that as well.

coinpictures

Not auctions per se, since virtually everything I do is fixed price BIN with Best Offer. It's the latter that causes the most angst: when to accept versus counteroffering, and if counteroffering what to make the counter...

There have been a few times I've declined offers, only several weeks or months later to wish I had taken them. Then again, there have also been times that I declined an offer, and a few days or weeks later had the coin sell at the BIN price... it's a crapshoot.