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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
 Posted - 07/22/2007 : 19:52:32
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Avg copper pennies/roll 10
Avg copper pennies/roll percentage 20%
Rolls per Brink box 50
Face Value $25.00
EBay end auction price copper Brinks box $40.00
Shipping paid by Customer $13.00
Actual Shipping Priority Mail $ 8.95
EBay listing fees ($24.99 list) $ 2.36
PayPal fees (Credit Card, Business Rate) $ 1.84
Profit per copper Brinks box $25 $14.85
Brink boxes needed to make $25 Copper 5
Profit Per Brinks box acquired $ 2.97
Assumes no transportation costs, no roll costs (reuse old rolls), no labor costs, no electricity cost.
This is all based on US Pennies as Canadian would be a higher number of copper pennies per roll.
If you could sell them off your free web page without credit card, you could net $19.05 per copper Brinks box and $3.81 per Brinks box acquired.
Numbers were taken from actual listings on EBay. The copper rolls activity appears to be pretty slow right now on EBay.
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