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It appears this has become the Great Collections/eBay Advertisement Board
blitzdude
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Does anyone actually buy/sell/trade coins here anymore or has this just become a SPAM forum for advertisements for auctions elsewhere? Clearly not what our host had in mind and certainly not the way it used to be. RGDS!
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I definitely buy and I try to sell all my eBay store items off eBay.
I buy here still and sell quite a bit here. I post on ebay to but I have never once posted a ebay link here
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Of course I also kinda agree though, im not sure how I feel about seeing all the ebay links posted here lately. I dont ever click on them, if I wanted to look at ebay I'd just go to ebay, I like buying coins here because i dont have to deal with the ebay bs and hiked up prices due to there fees
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Sometimes I read a title of a cool coin I would be interested in and then..... "at GC". Makes me sad.
I've purchased one coin here and also promoted my eBay store at least once. The reason I chose to link my store is because my inventory is mostly sub-$100 coins and it would be time-consuming for me to add all the photos here (and frankly, most forum members wouldn't care about them.) Those who do could browse all the listings I already made knowing they can save 9% by messaging me here.
I understand disliking auction links in the BST because "if I wanted the coin I would be searching for it". However, I once saw a coin I liked that I otherwise wouldn't have gotten because I wasn't paying attention to GC auctions at the time. Sometimes the best coins are those you didn't think you needed.
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I'm occasionally selling, and regularly buying here on the BST. Non-GC / Non-eBay transactions do exist!
First and foremost I don't want to wait 2 weeks. If I see something I like and I'm willing to pay X amount, I'd rather pay that amount now, even if it is more.
The other side...buyers premium and payment fees. Rather that % go into the pocket of the seller.
Shipping costs as well, although that is typically figured in the cost of the item in a person to person transaction.
I'm not against anyone posting their Ebay or auction or even website links in the BST forums, I just agree there should be either a single post for them all or a forum dedicated to them so we don't have to weed through them.
I wish that the people who are listing coins on the BST that are on GC or EBAY, would put it in the post title. That way, I would just keep on scrolling past these posts.
It is discouraging to see a coin that I may be interested in, only to click on it, to find the coin is up for auction on GC or EBAY.
I agree with the OP.
This board is mostly people looking for deals...
If you want to get a coins market value most of the time you have to go through GC.
I recently tried to sell a large portion of stuff and it was a lot of bottom feeding or people trying to race to the bottom.
I ended up wholesaling the gold because it was better than the offers I received here.
I no longer market my GC coins here. I think it’s probably a waste of time posting links to GC. Very little slips through the cracks on GC and the market ultimately places a value on the coin. Most of us who frequent the BST are also viewing coins on a regular basis on GC.
I agree with the earlier post that there should be a dedicated post or category just for all the off site offerings. For those who do post them here on the bst I would much rather have a picture of the actual coin being offered here with the link instead of having to leave the bst to view it. Like others here, I usually skip eBay and GC posts.
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I agree. This should be for people actually looking to trade with other forum members, not a lure to commercial websites.
I do observe that many sellers on Great Collections net below melt on gold coin sales, especially MS63 and below Saints.
Has to be well below net because I am buying them at melt (and occasionally less) and that's including the buyers fees and shipping. Full and half eagles as well. But that's a whole other story, I don't dislike GC/eBay, I am a customer at both, I just dislike coming to the BST thread to see more advertisements for auctions then actual coins for sale/trade/wanted here at PCGS. THKS!
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
Wooooha! Did someone just say it's officially "TACO™" Tuesday????
Retiring at 55, what day is today?
Buy, Sell or trade U.S. Coins.
I have zero problems with links to any Auction House.
+1
Out of respect to those who have no interest in coins on GC or eBay please make that abundantly clear in your title.
I like being aware of where nice coins are being sold.
Some coins are hard to price and best sold at auction - I've had zero success selling expensive coins here.
Depends on your definition of "expensive". For one buyer it could be $200 for another it could be $20k.