Have You Been An Ebay Loser Today?

[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

[ausjack]

yeah someone got a bargin alright

[trout]

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:

[Basil]

I've just been outbid on 3 1915 halves,i refuse to pay more than $20 a coin for "very goodfornutin" grade rubbish.

[stevo1962]

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

Yeah I sold a couple of VF mules a few weeks ago on ebay for less than I expected and I think the price gap between VF and EF is quite large.Maybe slabbed mules are the only way to sell these coins

[Steveqld]

That's not cheap.  Roxbury's August Auction:


Lot 443 - 2000 $1 Mule F  est $80

Sold for $210 + 17% BP ie just under [/align]$250

They withdrew lot 442 which was a mule in gF and in the same condition as that one and it had an estimate of $100

[ausjack]

WOW, I wonder if the day of top dollar are over for the poor old mule like the VG95 in notes as they're not much now but you never know it could just be a lul but who knows

[Fulvio]

As always, they're worth what people are willing to pay.

If a hundred people want one each, and there are 1000 available, prices will be low. Vice-versa, and prices go up. Simple supply and demand.

Back in the day when we were hunting them, there was a fair amount of expectation inflation going on, IMO. Now its just another coin, which the unwashed hordes don't care about.

[emu666]

There are very few mules in as low a grade as fine. Quite possibly the coin had problems so that low a price is not a surprise.

The one I sold was just shy of extremely fine. I don't think my scan showed how good a coin it was.

In spite of what Fulvio says there is a still a lot of demand for them. Several people at Petersham asked if there were any in stock.

[keldaw]

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 ,,

[emu666]

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.

[Fulvio]

Several people at Petersham asked if there were any in stock.

I didn't say there was no demand. But clearly there is less demand than there is supply. Were that not the case, prices would be rising instead of falling.

Lets face it, those of us who chase errors and varieties are in a minority in the greater scheme of things. The vast majority out there don't get it, and probably never will.

[Goldseeker]

There were several coin collectors from Melbourne who went to WA sand found a lot of Mules.

One of those persons was responsible for supplying Downies with a stack of Mules which they were selling for $950.00 each.   So what price did they buy them at?

I took mine in some time ago and they we not interested, Downies that is.

[keldaw]

I was offered $ 2200.00 for my first 4 mules but I declined that offer because I was told by someone that my best one was worth about $ 1250.00 or a bit more .that would mean that I get less then $ 1000.00 for the next 3 of them..     ,, kel ,,

[Goldseeker]

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.