A September to remember, EEs monthy thread

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A September to remember, EE's monthy thread

Well, tomorrow my first 2 Brinks half boxes of the month arrive. Hopefully they are kind to me. 26 boxes total this month when to comes to halves, hopefully I will pull close to average and make up for the purchases I had to make.

Since my hours have been cut at work for the next couple of months, I am going to start calling around to banks in the city and try to find some that will order me Ikes. Hopefully I can find one that will and hopefully it will be one I am a member of so I dont have to open up yet another account.

So.. hopefully this month serves me well, its been doing some good on the fishing :D
 

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good luck hunting and fishing! ;)
i just did a dime box, skunk, not good to start off the month,
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Ike's? Those are hard to come by, nobody really has them any more.
 

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Sometimes you can get places to order them. KC has a local depository so its possible someone can order me a $100 bag or $1000 bag.

Wow! what do you do with them after you get them?
 

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Wow! what do you do with them after you get them?

Well, I plan on searching for silver and sell the remainders online via craigs list. I have several buyers who will buy them for between $1.25 and $1.35 ea. I am just having trouble getting my hands on loose ones right now so I want to try to get bags from banks and go from there.
 

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When you post them on craigslist, how many do you offer at once? or do you just say you have some for sale?
 

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When you post them on craigslist, how many do you offer at once? or do you just say you have some for sale?

Depends. If I have a small number, I post the total number for sale, with years like 72x5 73x4 74x2 etc

If I have a larger number, I will say, I have 25 Eisenhower dollars for sale or 50 for sale tops and sell them as lots as people as about them. If someone asks if I have more than what I offer, I say yes and sometimes I will let them know I have more than listed.

I usually ship in a flat rate box for $5 to keep shipping down and I will also offer insurance as well. If they buy a good number off me, I cut the price down a little per to give them a bulk bargain.
 

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Do you always ship, or do you meet face to face sometimes?
 

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The reason I'm asking so many questions is I happened across a lot of ikes and I'm interested in selling, or at least seeing if there's any buyers. Thanks for answering my questions, I'm glad there's someone who's sold them before.
 

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The reason I'm asking so many questions is I happened across a lot of ikes and I'm interested in selling, or at least seeing if there's any buyers. Thanks for answering my questions, I'm glad there's someone who's sold them before.

Currently I have only shipped them, I have had buyers out of state interested and it was cheaper in the long run to ship than have them drive over here. Just a one way trip of 30 miles makes it cheaper to ship than drive and that is with a car that gets 30 mpg.

I have purchased stuff off Craigslist before face to face, I would never do so unless I was armed, safer that way. I usually bring a second person with me as well who is also armed.
 

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I have purchased stuff off Craigslist before face to face, I would never do so unless I was armed, safer that way. I usually bring a second person with me as well who is also armed.

I agree, I would also choose a public place to meet. If I have a lot of Ikes, how should I mix the dates, or should I sell them by date?
 

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I agree, I would also choose a public place to meet. If I have a lot of Ikes, how should I mix the dates, or should I sell them by date?

I would just mix them personally, there is no real value to any specific dates that I can tell, I would have to look in my coin book but what I had were average circulation coins so I didnt care to check the book.
 

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