As many Coin Guides posted are very informative, many others are used to promote sales of graded coins and/or a particular sellers reputation. Often, these types of guides will promote one particular coin grading service over another or condemn raw coin sellers including those that sell honest lot's or groups of raw coinage!

When viewing any reputable buyer or sellers reputation in eBay feedback, please use these guides for education and use that education wisely. For Example:

1. Look to see if any author of a guide is bashing raw (ungraded) coin sales via eBay guides as more than likely they will be a seller of only graded coins.
2. Some authors (mostly coin sellers), look at ways to hammer competition by posting guides that are ill mannered and use fractional information or information based solely on personal opinion. Again these guides are only to boast their sales and are not intended to help YOU the consumer.

Case and Point, I have noticed a seller recently placing many so called guides here on eBay that condemns any coin that is not graded by the mass grading company known as NGC. This condemnation includes many honest bulk raw coin sellers items (such as ours), the well respected PCGS grading firm, etc.. Here again only to promote his own NGC mass graded items.

Coin collectors, all I can offer is to do your homework well and place your bids only with reputable companies that do not adhere to the above mentioned propaganda to sell their items. Additional buyer tips are outlined below.

 FEEDBACK: Look at your sellers feedback before you bid! As no seller can make everyone happy especially if thousands of feedback are listed, look into the feedback. Is an eBayer reselling what he or she just bought from eBay to gain profit? I have seen this scenario over and over most of the time the resale being marketed in a different way or at a higher grade level.

OUT OF FOCUS OR HAZY PICTURES: This one continues to amaze me. With todays technology and ease of use in digital cameras, why would anyone list an auction with an out of focus picture? Think about it! Perhaps to hide imperfections or grossly overgraded coin? You know, rim dings, Big scratches, cleaned coins, etc. I would venture to bet 90%+ of the time when a coin is purchased with unclear pictures like this, much disappointment will be the end result.

PICTURES QUICKLY DELETED: Also known as Bait and Switch, this one involves most of the time picture theft and may I add "a good way to get suspended from eBay" for a seller! What to look for here is sellers that QUICKLY remove the pictures of an item once it has sold. This can be checked by looking at a sellers recent feedback to see if the pictures still exist lets say for an item that ended perhaps a week ago. Honest sellers will leave their pictures up on a server well past the time it would take for a buyer to receive their item! This insures a buyer is getting exactly the same item they purchased or bid on. Note on average most honest sellers leave their pictures available for about 30-days after the auction ends.

STOCK PHOTOS: Personally, I wouldn't buy anything (unless a BRAND NEW item) that uses stock photos no matter what the excuse the seller tries to deliver! Think about it, would you buy a used car with only "stock" photos showing a similar car to go by? How about a pre-owned house? How about a mail order bride? Well that last one is a bit extreme but you get the point. 

Remember, some of the BEST bargains on eBay when it comes to coins are still from sellers that list the ungraded , unsorted and the like.!

Thanks for your time and hope this Guide is of some help especially to the folks that are perhaps new to eBay or coin collecting in general. EBay is a great market place and coin collecting is a great hobby. Remember, honesty & good communications are always the best policy!  If you have any suggestions or comments, please feel free to email or call us. Contact information is listed in our "me" page....  

By:  Dave G. (owner) suncoins_liquidations