SSP: Added several "Coins For Sale" pages to my website

Aethelred

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This has been a long time coming, but I am in the process of building several "for sale" pages on my website. As of right now there is nothing on the US Coins or Currency pages, but all the others now have inventory.

Please feel free to either PM me or e-mail if you are interested in anything.

Thanks for looking!

coinpictures

Looks quite functional (although the design screams 1995 ). I like the better Isle of Man piece.

I'm thinking about doing the same thing... I've bounced back and forth between offering coins on my own site, here, and on Ebay, but I've not really implemented my site sale section well at all as of yet. The PDF idea I had last year was cool, but far too labor intensive. I need to come up with a workflow that works efficiently for inexpensive coins.

All of the different sales methods I've tried have their own upsides and downsides:

1. Your own web site. No fees per se, but the problem is driving traffic to it and getting people to actually see what you have to offer. Great for inexpensive coins where Ebay fees would eat you alive.

2. Weekly BST thread here. Fine if you have 1 or 2 coins to sell, but not really effective if you have a whole bunch.

3. SSP thread here. Better than #2, but if its too long of a post or has too many pictures it offends some people. Plus you don't want to one more frequently than about once every 2 months, for the same reason.

4. Ebay. Gets you the most exposure, but then there's all those dang fees. Not cost effective at all for $1-10 coins. Great for higher dollar pieces.

I'm thinking that in the long run the most effective approach is to list coins on your web site while at the same time announcing them here in the weekly BST, perhaps rotating a few (1-5) pictures of new or sale pieces each week. If coins languish too long then pick and choose which ones to also list on Ebay as well as on your web site (works best with an Ebay Store so you're not limited to 7-day exposure, and $0.11 buys you a month with gallery, as opposed to $0.35 buying you a week without).

Are you planning to use your site as a gateway to Ebay at all (or visa versa)?

Aethelred

CP, I will continue to use eBay as I think it does have a place. However, I do want to have a platform to offer less expensive coins and items that tend not to do well on eBay, I hope these webpages will serve as that platform.

Hyperion

PM'd Mr. dead king

wildjag

2 German coins on the whole website

Aethelred

<< <i>2 German coins on the whole website >>



I expect weekly additions to the site, some of theose will be Germans.