eBay has been great !!! A positive post😀
AZDAVY
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With all of eBay bashing threads I felt a positive eBay thread was in order. I started selling on eBay in late January and I have had nothing but wonderful experiences.
Living in Arizona I do not have the advantage of the large shows ie fun, central states and Baltimore.
We have perhaps 3 shows that I consider large 60 plus dealers in a year and a monthly show with about 30 dealers. With the amount of inventory I have the large out of state shows do not make financial sense. Travel , lodging , food etc. eBay has given me so many opportunities to sell coins to so many people. I have had over 200 sales in this brief time frame . I have sold coins in over 28 States! I have sold coins to Portugal, Guam, Australia and a military person overseas. There is absolutely no way I could get that exposure without eBay.
eBay is safer for me and the people I sell to because I sell certified coins 99% of the time.
The fees are very reasonable and I control the pricing.
So absolutely no eBay bashing from me! It has been the best experience allowing me to sell more.
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Thank you. I also started a positive ebay thread because I thought 3 negative thread on the first page was too much.
I've done 100,000 transactions over 27 years and had very few problems.
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As a collector of many things, eBay has been a real boon. It has allowed me to
sell various items at fair prices at minimal transaction costs. If one wants to the work.
I concur. I've been using Ebay since joining in 1998 for a couple of thousand transactions with nary a problem save a lost package once. They have enabled me to judiciously add to my lifelong coin collection and in selling all kinds of items I've moved on from.
They have been under fire for allegedly being a conduit for the sales of counterfeit collectible coins as we've all noticed. This problem though isn't Ebay-centric. It is a World Web problem with fake coins for sale all over. Never more in our history is the phrase "Caveat Emptor" been more necessary, Ebay especially.
eBay has always been great to me. Able to buy coins I would never been able to buy in my own country/city. It has expanded my collecting focus well beyond my borders.
Never had any issues over the years.
It's the greatest thing since PayPal!
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I definitely appreciate eBay in general, it is a 24/7 coin show-flea market-retail-extravaganza. I built most of my collection from there, selling has been fun and very profitable at times.
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I love ebay. I live in the middle of nowhere (numismatically speaking) and 99.9% of everything I've bought over the last 20 years has come from there. Had a few bad experiences but not enough to sour me on it.
5500 transactions over 13 years with minimal problems. USPS, however, is a different matter altogether.
You're now targets for the disgruntled.
I agree, never a shortage of buyers their and once you know how to wade through the unscrupulous sellers deals can be found e.g. SEALED 1977 mint set...
I know a few significant dealers that were either kicked off, put into the remedial learning category due to problem feedback some years ago. Their feedback system can be abused.
If you are careful and avoid various pitfalls then you can do ok.
"The squeaky worm gets the grease."
peacockcoins
I love eBay.
Great for models. There always seems to be someone willing to buy my 40k stuff.
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Been on ebay for 28 years or so with the same account...pretty much all positive stuff from me too.
Got to pay attention, have to have a sense of what you're buying, have to be an honest seller...
I've had a few experiences with nefarious sellers but ebay has always had my back. Sometimes telling me I don't even need to return the item.
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Since 1997 and started out with a WebTV and a bunch of Beanie Babies.
When I added using a scanner to my listings I thought I have made it into the big times.
peacockcoins
I've had no issues buying or selling on Ebay and it was an outlet to sell coins for double the best offer I could get from dealers in my area. A minimal amount of work to post, sell, ship and get paid for an item.
I heard that was a "golden age" when you could make serious money.
I try to use eBay to buy from a small outfit to avoid fueling big online distributors. I enjoy browsing the offers. I don’t mock eBay; I mock the words of illiterate sellers.
Been selling there almost twice as long as I’ve had a brick & mortar shop. I prefer buying (not just coins) there, too. In fact, many of my customers (buyers) in the shop ,are constituents (competitors ? ) selling on eBay, whatnot, tik tok and other venues. It’s all grease to the wheels of commerce.
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Avoid touching the positive post and negative post simultaneously.
So strange.
I'd hunt for Beanie Babies using key words of Beanies where the listing was slightly mis-spelled. There was such an uproar in popularity that by the time I'd receive a shipment of this little stuffed creatures some had doubled in price. I still have a few of the "famous nine" (the original set of Beanies) I keep as a reminder of those times.
peacockcoins
Been selling and buying on ebay since 12/2000. For the last several years mostly selling. No recent, within the last 3 years, any issues with npb's. Using common sense with dealings on ebay will avoid most issues.
Please don't scold me too harshly. . .
I had to include a couple of quick iPhone photos of a few in my garage!
peacockcoins
For selling, I love eBay and a few years ago, used it a lot to sell items that my wife had inherited from a couple estates—we both were surprised at the prices we were able to get for some items. More recently, I’ve been selling coins that I no longer have interest in and it’s been a fine way to earn a few bucks from stuff that’s been boxed and neglected for years. Viva eBay!
Scold? Those are awesome! I had tons of them as a kid, but by the time I got into them, the real classics were already well out of reach. I think they're all in a bin in my parents' house and I don't really think about them all that much, but every once in a while I think about those original classics I could never got. Alas, they kept enough value that I'm still not going to buy them, but they do take me back. I won Princess in a raffle... one of the very rare times I ever won something, and 25-something years later, I can still remember how excited I was when the store called to say I won.
I buy license plates, radios, even monopoly tokens. I buy dumb things, like mint sets, too.
I volunteer at a local parish thrift store.
We had a run last year where multiple people dumped their Beanie Babies collections on us. I said oh my wife used to collect them, especially the bears, back in the day. They let me take first pick. I brought home a few dozen, including Bubbles, Claude, and plenty of bears, for 50 cents each. My wife was like wtf, what am going to do with those?! Lol…..
I must just be the lucky one, because it seems that my business is just a “rent-a-coin” service with regard to eBay. To put it in perspective, most items I sell are between 3-6k (happens to be the “sweet spot” where eBay puts their 4k threshold, lucky me 😐).
Since I’ve started dealing full time, I have had NOT ONE single return, of any kind, outside of eBay. On eBay, my return rate is like 1/3….good photos, accurate descriptions, 14 day return policy, I’ve just surrendered to the fact that in this price range, buyers want an approval service, or an insurance policy, and I have to mark things up accordingly.
1 return reason - “changed my mind”
(Aka, wasn’t able to flip and now you can have it back, or the market price came down over the last couple weeks).
I see how it could be helpful to many, but when I’m being charged $400+ FVF for an item that was photographed thoroughly and I’d be happy to provide videos before the purchase, it gets rather aggravating when I’m out the shipping fee every time.
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Let me say this about my experience with ebay, I have enjoyed my 20+ years buying and selling on ebay. But this year I have had to return 6 items, last year 2 and 1 in the previous 20 years. Hopefully, not a trend for the future. I'm a small time buyer seller and like it that way. Not doing it for a living, but for the fun of the hunt and of course, the find. Can't imagine anywhere else that offers the exposure that ebay gets me. JMO
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Don’t allow returns. Then you won’t be an approval service. If you have great photos and videos should not be a problem. Elimantes the people who return coins.
No returns end of story!
You’re too nice and at that price especially with the pics and vids they get what they deserve!
Don’t like it don’t buy it.
If someone is determined to return a coin though, they can just file a snad or a chargeback, so ultimately I feel like everyone offers returns whether you want to or not.
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Sorry about your experience. What is the most common series people return? Is there one?
God comes first in everything I do. I’m dedicated to serving Him with my whole life. Coin collecting is just a hobby—but even in that, I seek to honor Him. ✝️
Snad and chargebacks can be intimidating, but don't happen that often. With good pics and descriptions like you have, I would switch to no returns and see how it goes.
My grandmother owned an antique shop and was somehow all over beanie babies from the beginning. She made an absolute killing relative to her normal income during the peak of the craze, and when she finally cashed out she went to the Cadillac dealership and paid straight cash for a brand new Seville.
I’ll never forget how proud she was of that car.
100% positive feedback for 26 years here
6 items up now (coins, books, license plates)
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
I was talking to a dealer today who was upset because his "make offer to watcher" function was open-ended, so months after he did a "make offer" to potential buyers, one of the people he'd sent the original, now low, offer to bought a gold coin where the "offer" was still active even as he'd raised the price on the 1834 classic $5! So there are quirks on ebay that sellers need to be up on and aware of. He said unless he hears from corporate his lawyer will be contacting them and that they were exposing themselves to a class action. I doubt that's likely.
I have a local flea market which is full of sellers who haven't researched values on Ebay. It's a gold mine. (EDIT) You should understand $50 profit is a 'gold mine' to me.
Good to read a positive post about eBay, very refreshing 🌞
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