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Corsair
Penny Hoarding Member
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 Posted - 01/19/2010 : 14:40:11
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Usually I'm not one to buy silver on eBay because of the high premiums, but I caught a deal last night that was just unbeatable. With combined shipping, I was able to pick up 19 Franklin halves for $99.01 shipped. And, since I'm in the eBay Bucks program, I get $1.98 of that back. That's a total of $97.03 for $9.50 of 90% silver, which comes out to be about 10.2 times face!
Best of luck, everyone. Keep your eyes open.
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oober
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1304 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 14:47:36
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| Awesome deal, congrats!!! |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 16:36:28
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| I missed that one. |
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2533 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 16:44:48
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I never find any deals on silver on e-bay.
That was a great buy. |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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Mikep2020
Penny Collector Member
USA
402 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 17:27:34
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| I get deals every once in a while, About a month ago I got two auctions of 48 roosevelts for $50 and $53 from the same seller, 11.2x final including shipping. Before that 27 Mercury dimes for $26.50. Just won a few days ago a roll of walking libs for 13.0x, thats lower than the average selling price and they are pretty decent condition. The key to finding deals is knowing the "special" search terms |
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The Finest
Penny Sorter Member
USA
56 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 17:40:54
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| You gotta know how to find dem deals :) The ebay bucks are a nice little bonus also. |
A fool and his money are soon parted. I would pay someone a lot of money to explain that to me.-Homer Simpson |
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thogey
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1617 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 18:07:28
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Corsair,
Bully for you! I bet it feels good.
If you look for the poorly composed listings, you can find ones that have been overlooked. |
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 19:17:00
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| Nice going! I rarely even try anymore cause I can't get deals like that. |
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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2408 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 19:22:31
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Originally posted by thogey
Corsair,
Bully for you! I bet it feels good.
If you look for the poorly composed listings, you can find ones that have been overlooked.
Yeah, I've found some deals like that. I wrote about it on my website under "A Bad Spell of Silver"  |
Hoard now and hold on!
http://coppermillions.blogspot.com/
http://wherewillyoubein2012.blogspot.com/ |
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1964 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 19:35:51
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Good job. 
I have scored some nice deals on foreign Ag, and mixed lots. While everybody is tripping over each other for the U.S. stuff, I'm buying the Canadian, Aussie and other foreign goodies, cheap. 
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cecropia_moth
Penny Pincher Member
USA
222 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 20:28:36
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Bluegill -
I agree on the foreign stuff...I like picking up foreign for at/under spot. Need to familiarize yourself with the popular foreign silver with the 1901-2000 World Coins book. Our local library has one and I have written down a lot of the info out of there. This weekend picked up 1948 Mexico 5 peso (.90 Ag), 1963 Netherlands 2 1/2 gulden (.72 Ag) and 1954 Australia shilling...the ram coin (.50 Ag). Nice price and a wonderful changeup from the usual US90 we see day after day.
David - Good deal on those Frankies.
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thogey
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1617 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 20:31:05
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Although what happens is, you start looking for cheap bullion and are infected.
You become a coin collector. |
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kirkland
New Member
USA
0 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 21:00:31
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| What a deal! Give yourself a pat on the back for bidding on that one. :-) |
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2010 : 21:47:37
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| Congrats. I got a good deal myself today. |
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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2408 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2010 : 00:19:32
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The deals are there, you just have to be firm on your price and don't overbid. The best way to get a deal on ebay is to bid on absolutely everything early, and about maybe half of one percent of the time you'll score a deal on an item overlooked by everyone else. Sometimes people run out of money to bid, so you'll pick up a good deal. Most of the time though, you'll get outbid. I used to bid on several hundred auctions at a time, as far as a week in advance, and was winning maybe once a day, at about a fifteen percent discount to the going rates. It's like finding an indian, you just need to keep looking (bidding).
Congratulations, David on your 10.2X |
Hoard now and hold on!
http://coppermillions.blogspot.com/
http://wherewillyoubein2012.blogspot.com/ |
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