Ebay and Coinstar

ringding

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Well, I took the plunge and signed up for an Ebay seller account. What a pain in the neck. They wanted credit card AND checking account routing number. There was no way I was going to give them my primary checking account number. I might wake up one day and find it empty. I opened up a new checking account at a different bank just for ebay. My first sale is for a roll of 40% silver halves.

I also did the coinstar thing today. I took a bag of halves and got $50 ecard for amazon.com (no fee) and $100 ecard for eddie bauer (no fee). BTW, coinstar rejected lots of the half dollars. It seemed like it kicked out about every other coin.

I went to amazon.com and what was cool was I was able to find some books and dvd's that you can't get around here. What I didn't like was it was hard to figure out what your balance was as you bought things. They didn't give you a running total that included tax and shipping. You kinda had to do your best guessing and wait until the final submission before you knew want the total total would be. I did have to eliminate one item. When I was done I had $3.60 left over that can be applied if I turn more coins in at coinstar, or buy an item that cost less than $3.60 after shipping and tax.

I haven't gone to the eddie bauer website yet. Hopefully the shopping thing will be a little more user friendly even though it wasn't too bad at amazon.
 

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ringding

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Well, some people finally bid on my coins on Ebay. I was getting worried. For a while there the first bid was only 99 cents for a roll of half dollars. lol. That guy would have got a bargain.
 

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ringding

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I sold one roll for $28 and another for $30. Not bad, eh?
 

Postalrevnant

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Congratulations Ringding. I have a paypal account, but haven't used it to sell yet. Don't know if I will need to have extra pains to do so, or if my paypal account is ready to go with Ebay. Will find out soon with my lucky so far $60+ in 40%.

Great to hear results like yours on the sale. It looks like to me from my following of prices over the last few weeks / months that perhaps I am better off making its one whole lot. Seems that peps will bid more when they are getting much more. It makes sound sense if the S/H is reasonable.

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Hmm, I returned $180 in halves to a coinstar and it didn't reject even one.

I did, however, get pulled over and surrounded by three cop cars while leaving the store. Apparently a nearby store had been robbed of its change and coinstar opperators were told to report any large change returns. The cops were dicks, but I had the receipt that said all coins were halves, and that's not what was stolen. First time I've been pulled over for coin roll hunting...
 

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