I must be missing something!

[Paulus]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271104866320?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648

[Peterkin]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271104866320?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648

The coin doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary. The seller's other coins are getting a fair bit of interest too. I'm not able to see details of the bidders on Ebay - which seems odd, only that there are 6 bidders with 9 bids.

[argentumandcoins]

I keep banging on about sellers that make their listings private.

I may be a bit thick but the ONLY reason I can see is so that the seller can "help along" the bidding.

Yes, the price is quite high for this coin.

[azda]

I keep banging on about sellers that make their listings private.

I may be a bit thick but the ONLY reason I can see is so that the seller can "help along" the bidding.

Yes, the price is quite high for this coin.

Agreed John, i've always thought her auction prices were high, this particular coin seems on the High side

Edited November 25, 2012 by azda

[Coinery]

I keep banging on about sellers that make their listings private.

I may be a bit thick but the ONLY reason I can see is so that the seller can "help along" the bidding.

Yes, the price is quite high for this coin.

Also, so people can't actually see what you've been selling AFTER the auction's finished! If you had a nice little idea, say polished coins for 110th birthdays, other potential listers, who might want to poach your idea, can't see how successful you are in selling them. If they spotted you'd sold 20 in one week, they might just think 'Blimey, I'll give that a go myself!'

A case in point: about 10 year's ago, I started making driftwood crucifixes for a bit of fun. I was genuinely shocked by their popularity and eBay auction success, making between early twenties to thirty quid a throw! I didn't have the market for long!

I've done it myself on eBay, seen a good idea, and then trawled the seller's feedback for the stats!

[Peterkin]

I keep banging on about sellers that make their listings private.

I may be a bit thick but the ONLY reason I can see is so that the seller can "help along" the bidding.

Yes, the price is quite high for this coin.

Also, so people can't actually see what you've been selling AFTER the auction's finished! If you had a nice little idea, say polished coins for 110th birthdays, other potential listers, who might want to poach your idea, can't see how successful you are in selling them. If they spotted you'd sold 20 in one week, they might just think 'Blimey, I'll give that a go myself!'

A case in point: about 10 year's ago, I started making driftwood crucifixes for a bit of fun. I was genuinely shocked by their popularity and eBay auction success, making between early twenties to thirty quid a throw! I didn't have the market for long!

I've done it myself on eBay, seen a good idea, and then trawled the seller's feedback for the stats!

I see. Thank you for that insight Coinery.

[declanwmagee]

Perhaps also certain sellers may not want people to see how much (or how little!) they'd bought a coin for, that they are now selling.

I buy and sell on the same account, I might add, and my listings aren't private!

[Nick]

Perhaps also certain sellers may not want people to see how much (or how little!) they'd bought a coin for, that they are now selling.

I buy and sell on the same account, I might add, and my listings aren't private!

...and therefore I might bid on them.

Edited November 25, 2012 by Nick

[TomGoodheart]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271104866320?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648

Oh, come on now. Didn't you see that it is "A Splendid Highly Collectable Example "!?

... that and the fact that this is eBay, not the real world of course.

[Rob]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271104866320?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648

Oh, come on now. Didn't you see that it is "A Splendid Highly Collectable Example "!?

... that and the fact that this is eBay, not the real world of course.

It's not that bad an example as they come, with the question being whether you want one or do you want the gap. You would pay into 4 figures for any shilling around the EF mark with E or E* below. High grade examples are seriously rare.

[TomGoodheart]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271104866320?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648

Oh, come on now. Didn't you see that it is "A Splendid Highly Collectable Example "!?

... that and the fact that this is eBay, not the real world of course.

It's not that bad an example as they come, with the question being whether you want one or do you want the gap. You would pay into 4 figures for any shilling around the EF mark with E or E* below. High grade examples are seriously rare.

True about the gap thing, and scarcity of better grades. My Spink gives £45 for F, £250 VF. It will be interesting to see if it hits the £100 mark, which I'd put at the maximum I'd have been prepared to pay when I was interested in that sort of thing ... the current price is about right maybe. Of course, it just squeaks into the Scottish coin market too which seems fairly buoyant at present ... we'll see.

Edited November 25, 2012 by TomGoodheart

[azda]

Funny Thing is, i have a 1708E** listed so will interested to see where this goes.

Edited November 25, 2012 by azda

[azda]

http://www.ebay.co.u...984.m1423.l2648

Oh, come on now. Didn't you see that it is "A Splendid Highly Collectable Example "!?

... that and the fact that this is eBay, not the real world of course.

It's not that bad an example as they come, with the question being whether you want one or do you want the gap. You would pay into 4 figures for any shilling around the EF mark with E or E* below. High grade examples are seriously rare.

True about the gap thing, and scarcity of better grades. My Spink gives £45 for F, £250 VF. It will be interesting to see if it hits the £100 mark, which I'd put at the maximum I'd have been prepared to pay when I was interested in that sort of thing ... the current price is about right maybe. Of course, it just squeaks into the Scottish coin market too which seems fairly buoyant at present ... we'll see.

Which Spink are you reading Richard? My 2012 for the 1707E (F 110 and VF 400) and for the 1707E* (F 125 and VF 425) This one that's ending is Edinburgh, but she's thrown a couple of **** in there to make sure it gets publicity.

You may need an updated Spink I am curious however between S 3609 and 3609A

Edited November 26, 2012 by azda

[Peter]

I've bought from the seller and always been happy with the service.

[Coinery]

I've bought from the seller and always been happy with the service.

I was too, until our little fall-out over postage! Her/his loss as, as I said in a previous thread, I had bought and bid-up many, many, coins of their's that would have sold for considerably less otherwise! I was worth £1000's to them, even as a non-winning bidder! I must have spent a K or two with them as well!

I still don't think it's right to try and charge SD rates for two items you bought at Signed-For rates! Send them individually to me if you want, not charge me extra for putting them in the same envelope and saying they are now over the £46 bracket!

Still gets to me