If You See Or Sell Online What Are The Key Points You Include And Avoidances

Just be very honest and candid in your opinion about the coin you are trying to sell. Good sharp pictures are a great help, so that an intending buyer can grade for himself, and make up his own mind to buy. Good coins sell themselves.

With professional auctioneers, detracting features are always noted. This is the area of the market that I make most of my valuable purchases, although I do buy lower valued coins over the counter. Nevertheless, same rules should still apply with lower valued coins.

Good honesty will always return with good feedback.

This may sound nitpicky but it's the truth, at least for me.

When I see a seller that can't be bothered to spell out words, 99% of the time I will move on. If they can't bother to spell out a three letter word what else won't they bother to do? Mail my package on time? Take care in packaging it?

If we're talking about selling coins on ebay, there are some specific guidelines and rules for coins.

You need high quality photos of your actual coins. Using "stock photos" or borrowing pictures of similar looking coins from elsewhere on the internet is a definite no-no.

If selling multiple coins in the same lot, make sure clear pictures of each coin in the lot are included. While I believe you can sell "bulk lots" and rolls, you aren't allowed to sell "mystery items".

Coins have a unique ebay rule: you aren't allowed to use Sheldon Scale grades (eg. "EF45" or "MS63") in the title or description unless the coin is in a slab and graded by a recognized third-party grader. You can use their verbal equivalents (eg. "Extremely Fine" or "Uncirculated").

Clearly stipulate your shipping rules and charges. Don't charge people excessive shipping and handling fees in an effort to claw back your Paypal and ebay fees, and then simply put the items in the post. And if you don't want the hassle of overseas shipping, disallow international bidders.

Don't imply something is rare or unusual when it isn't. The word "rare" is so over-used on ebay it's basically invisible, so you might as well not use it.

Finally, be prepared to build up your reputation slowly. ebay is notorious for dodgy sellers selling fake, non-existent or stolen coins (though they make rather good efforts to try to counteract this, the reputation persists). Coin collectors tend to be wary of new sellers, or of sellers who don't have a clear track record of selling coins; they will either bid low, or skip your listings entirely.

Shipping depends on the quality of the coin. Most of the ones I sell are 2X2 flip, then super thin plastic foam, and the packing slip. I then stick it into an ordinary envelope with $0.55 stamp. I charge $0.69. I combine up to 3 flips this way and only add $0.1 more per coin if at all. But these are very beat up error coins or album fillers.

Obviously for any order over $10, I will purchase a label from ebay (saves you between 15% or so through them), paste it to a bubble wrap mailer, and put the flips in it. You get tracking and $50 insurance. Costs between $3 and $4. ebay handles it all. I enter dimensions and weight of mailer it will ship in when setting up the listing. Mark it as buyer pays shipping and ebay will calculate the cost and show each bidder their personalized amount when they are looking at the auction.

Not everything is eligible for combining shipping automatically. I can't remember if it cost more to have it listed as combining, or if coins just couldn't. But I don't. I write in the listing the terms under which I will combine shipping also not to pay invoice until all auctions they are in have finished.

Combining shipping can be down when invoicing if buyer has NOT paid yet. Then it is easy and you pick how much reduce the shipping by. If they pay in two invoices because the auctions where days apart, then your only option is to issue a refund. Just make sure you never send something before any "sold" item is paid in full. I something would think it was paid when looking at all orders an tell them I was shipping it out. Always look at the "ready to ship" section instead of orders.

If I haven't responded its because I am still going over it. I'm taking notes and have been a little bz with some obligations and some priorities... Still though grateful for all your feedback and responses... Also today I went out to check prices on supplies to see how to get deals on them to kinda see how this can all come together as a whole. Any one here save on supplies purchases if so what tips. Also do u transfer the savings on to the buyers, or do u maintain a certain consistency? I ask to see if I'm doing too much. I like the idea though to kinda keep track and to transfer the savings on costs but still Is it too much I wonder?... Thanks

Ok so I have reviewed all the responses and have to say truly I'm grateful for the time invested in doing so. I feel I have heard plenty on this topic. I will start new posts, again thanks!

Thanks I'm working on that everyday...