Selling coins for fun - my story

 Since 9/28/24 I’ve sold and shipped  36 items for a  Total of $ 834.05 netting between about $660-$690 per a ChatGPT review, for about  18–$19 per sale. Not a great investment from a pure time-spent point of view but it’s been nice slowly selling off a few coins and getting them to homes of folks who want them. I’m 80% done w a full excel list of my inventory and it’ll probably be close to 1000 coins when I’m done - most of which is just circulated European pocket change but at $18 each that could add up. Avg is likely closer to $6-7 I would guess as I’ve already sold a few of the more valuable ones and remaining are probably mostly “nostalgia” items that will only sell to people who want a coin from a certain year/country reminding them of a person, place, or trip. In other news, I’m on Day 1 of Finance 108 via Northern Virginia Community College:  Princ of Secur Inves. Should be fun!

  2008 South Africa 🇿🇦 1 Rand Coin Circulated https://www.ebay.com/itm/205096686215

1736-1800 🇨🇳 Chinese, Qing dynasty, Qianlong (乾隆帝) Cash Coin $11.97.  https://www.ebay.com/itm/204994437362  

Sold 11/9, paid 11/12; shipped 11/13; eta 11/18. Messaged buyer to with updates. Love how payment is so early now; am I now a “trusted” seller?

I use eBay Messenger to submit requests to eBay and it works great. They send a link to verify you and then respond with good news most of the time. This time I had 2 items delivered to a buyer and they had the package held at the PO, so it was there but their funds were still on hold. Jessica at eBay got the funds released!

Finally received payment for 9/29 Eisenhower dollar sale; buyer never replied to messages, but apparently did receive it. Glad eBay released it (after 30 days); I did ask Customer Service about it awhile ago so maybe they reached out to him?