Selling coins for fun - my story

Vintage Welcome To Egypt Set of 11 Mixed Egyptian Coins Posted in late 2024 and still available!  See  https://www.ebay.com/itm/204994489496

 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?

50 Kopek coin arrived 1 day early and funds released. Should see them Mon 10/28 I think.   J Stiffy 50 Kopek USSR 26 Oct 2024 10:27 Delivered CANONSBURG, PA

  Sold Greek and Norwegian coin sets to same buyer, and shipped today. 

https://parcelsapp.com/en/tracking/ESUS224253239 Printed eBay Standard Envelope label on envelope and prepared coin last night at the dinner table. Forgot to print a page from the ad but hand-wrote a thank you. A good sale at the Buy Now price and only one view. Maybe my post here helped so it was found in a search? I was doubtful but hopeful too. Will try again.  https://parcelsapp.com/en/tracking/ESUS224253239

Just sold a coin! After 12 days, yay. Have to see if this was promoted or not. Get it ready to ship via eBay Standard Envelope 1 oz.

Can’t seem to find my mojo. Goin on 11 days, no sales. Do I need to drop prices dramatically? I guess so. Am not motivated in other areas either - running, mountain biking, maintaining house, all comes and goes in terms of motivation. Maybe I’m in a trough? Got roof shingles and they may be wrong color. Ah life is ok though. V for victory! 1898 U.S. Liberty Head "V" Nickel Vintage 5 cent coin, circulated

eBay customer service via Facebook Messenger has worked pretty well. Got payment coming now for the mini penny which was delivered but not scanned I guess, and/or the buyer did not give feedback so anyway yay for that.

9 days is a long time. And my last eBay deposit was $2.16 since 2 eBay labels and other charges were covered. Maybe this ok  1980 P and D and S Susan B Anthony Dollar UNC Coins US Mint Cellos Three SBA $   https://www.ebay.com/itm/205040072544  set will inspire, now 3 views, 1 watcher.

A benefit of using eBay Standard Envelope service is their Parcel Insurance Plan. Here is the response from Lori at eBay through Messenger after posting message on FB: “Great, thanks so much. This verified the right account. Upon review, we also only have the latest scan on October 3. There's no other information available: http://spkl.io/6189fuSKS  In this case, it's best to open an insurance claim through Parcel Insurance Plan that comes with this service. You can find a link for the claim here: http://spkl.io/6180fuSKs  Thanks for contacting eBay! ~Lori”

5th day of no sales yet; it seems domestic coins are more popular than foreign, but then there are cool ones like this, given to me from my Father-in-Law, from his Father.  https://www.ebay.com/itm/205041135701 :  1989 50 Kopek Russia Soviet Union USSR Coin 50 Kopeks 1989, uncirculated

Trying to market a little; maybe Google will find  2006-W $5 American Gold Eagle 1/10 Oz Gold Proof Coin at EOCoins on eBay ? $400 seems to be the going rate.  Only 5 views though and it’s been up awhile. Gorgeous coin!

I have 98 active listings, which are easy to see using this link  https://www.ebay.com/sh/lst/active . I really like this option as you can sort, search, and edit easily. If I were to add unique categories or sku numbers I could sort that way too. This listing at  https://www.ebay.com/itm/205035232773  is perhaps one of the best coins I have, in terms of circulated coins:

 Sold an Ike 9/29 and it’s stuck saying still processing. Instructions say to call to trace it or call your post office to see if they can. Maybe tomorrow?

  Note to self: 9th sale, 10/8/24; probably too cheap but it sold! To drop off at PO 10/9, after repackaging - hopefully to 1 oz and thin enough. Started over with new envelope and added folder paper around coin as padding with stripped down coin holder flap so it was thinner with bare grey card stock showing. Hope it weighs in ok too. Will go to UCB PO soon to ship. 9:43 am UPDATE: 1.1 oz!! Can I get it down more?! (tried again with printing directly on small envelope as A6). 10/9/24, 4:55 pm update: 0.9 oz and shipped!