Have You Been An Ebay Loser Today?

[MobOfRoos]

I trust that the price of Mules will increase substantially as I have 26 of them in various grades etc and they are forming part of my "self controlled" super scheme.

I wouldn't bank on it Goldseeker. From the sound of things there are lots of people sitting on hoards of them. They will gradually find their way onto the market.

[Goldseeker]

I trust that you are not correct MOR.   No offence meant.

[stevo1962]

I trust that you are not correct MOR.   No offence meant.

I think the higher grade examples (EF and above)will be in more demand and therefore prices will remain high and prices for lower grade examples will struggle a bit.Just my opinion from watching the
market over the last couple of years.I have offloaded all of my mules graded VF or less as I cant see the prices going up much in the future for those

[nealeffendi]

For every one who wins something cheap on ebay, there is also someone who has just sold something cheap.

I'm still frustrated about this one the other day:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3372&item=271286507462

Nice coin, crappy price.
I am from now on I'm only using eBay as a dumping ground for coins I know won't slab up to the higher grades.
I have sold many MS coins and only gotten VF-EF prices for them :dash1:
I sold a bunch of "Grannybait" coins a couple of weeks ago and got less than issue price for most of them.

from now on I will be selling my better stuff slabbed and at auction (NOT bloody eBay).
it may cost a few bob at the start and takes quite some time but it is FAR better that giving the bloody things away :good:

Trout, what is your fleabay handle and do you have a shop/website?
I always like to know which of the ebay sellers are not the Peter Wallace types.

I don't know where peter Andrews gets his mules from but he has sold a lot of them in his time of selling on ebay ..   ,, kel ,,

Most courtesy of Burswood Casino when I lived in Perth from 2003-6.

Peter, did you pick up your Dot Above English in Perth back in '03?
The reason I ask is that the Perth mint released a few hundred pounds (face) of pennies to meet the Christmas rush of late 1921 so that might explain how Geoff Raynes found his.

[emu666]

For every one who wins something cheap on ebay, there is also someone who has just sold something cheap.

I'm still frustrated about this one the other day:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3372&item=271286507462

Nice coin, crappy price.
I am from now on I'm only using eBay as a dumping ground for coins I know won't slab up to the higher grades.
I have sold many MS coins and only gotten VF-EF prices for them :dash1:
I sold a bunch of "Grannybait" coins a couple of weeks ago and got less than issue price for most of them.

from now on I will be selling my better stuff slabbed and at auction (NOT bloody eBay).
it may cost a few bob at the start and takes quite some time but it is FAR better that giving the bloody things away :good:

Trout, what is your fleabay handle and do you have a shop/website?
I always like to know which of the ebay sellers are not the Peter Wallace types.

I don't know where peter Andrews gets his mules from but he has sold a lot of them in his time of selling on ebay ..   ,, kel ,,

Most courtesy of Burswood Casino when I lived in Perth from 2003-6.

Peter, did you pick up your Dot Above English in Perth back in '03?
The reason I ask is that the Perth mint released a few hundred pounds (face) of pennies to meet the Christmas rush of late 1921 so that might explain how Geoff Raynes found his.

I found it in Melbourne in 2003 just before I moved to Perth.

[JeffH]

As a regular seller on eBay I think the saying "what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts" sums it up well.
You can never be sure how bidding on an item might go.
I often have a low starting price because that usually encourages an early bid which tends to drag in more bids. But, you risk the possibility of selling something for way less than its real value. [You also have the possibility that something may sell for a very high price if a few bidders engage in a duel to win.]

Example; last week I had eight items listed and only 5 bids in total on two items -one had only one bid. Bad week for me so, did I lose? No; that's just the way it is sometimes.
This week I had this item 2001 CENTENARY of FEDERATION 50 CENTS SET - 10 TOP COINS sell at $49.60 when I was expecting maybe $30 to $35. This again was just the way it panned out. All I hope is that I come out ahead in the long term.

What is important is the know the market. I often search completed sales to see the range of sales prices for the same (or very similar) items. It is interesting to see the number of items closed not long before the finish time -eBay Australia might not let you set a reserve price but plenty of sellers will cancel if it looks like the bidding will not be high enough for them.

Jeff

[trout]

Trout, what is your fleabay handle and do you have a shop/website?
 I always like to know which of the ebay sellers are not the Peter Wallace types.

My eBay handle is "pommystockman" and I struggle to keep the 100 sales a year to maintain my "Power Seller" status :dash1:
If however they ever brought it a "Power Buyer" rating I would have absolutely NO problem keeping THAT status

[keldaw]

jeff , thanks mate for the 3 items I won , and I bid on the cen x .50 also but got to rich for me , but glad for you that you got a good price for them .. as I said in my note to you if I owe you any more dollars please let me know , as I think I got a very good deal and I was quite supprised that no body bid more on the tall ships ...
can you hold up posting till Friday please , so I will be back home when the girl arrives wit the mail other wise it sits in the box all weekend .. thankyou .      ,, kel ,,