I've been a member of the auction site Wensy.com shortly after launch in 2007, but you've never bought one coin today. It is not theft, but is just a nice border VF coin from Chile, which is the prices around the book value. With its coin store in almost 12,000 lists fancy me passing by only watching has become one of general interest as a possible coin purchase outlet.
Wensy is completely free site, born from the failure of Yahoo Auctions and subsequently picked up a decent percentage of the yahoo auction sellers. I've kept an eye on the site of last year and a half to see where he goes and which was advertising. As expected, many of the over-graders from the old Yahoo settlement accounts and exists today, but sometimes there are some hidden gems. Some sellers may be identified as they use the two e-Bay and Wensy to has their goods.
The aim of Wensy in life is not to compete with e-Bay, but to provide a solution to the low price for sellers/buyers. Born of the frustrations of originator Darren Bock, Wensy is basically a home production and fire site with a lot of personal interaction by the owners of the site. Are small, they are not huge costs and maintenance staff on e-Bay and just "strike and you are".
For buyers is two strikes and you (and your IP address) are blocked from entry into the site State ever again. For sellers is three strikes and you're out with the same penalty.
Purchase of this coin is relatively simple and most sellers accept many methods, including Paypal and Google Checkout, which is a nice change from e-Bay. One possible thing I tried is not, since there are so few articles in respect of the total supply, many auctions going bovine. If some coins are just sitting there for weeks in the end not nibbles then there maybe mail and best offers the opportunity to have the auction price.
Overgrading And Overpricing!!! Here's an example:
Announce list for 1911D Barber half as fine + $ 55. Current trends of this coin in VG8 are $ 17, while the degree of F12 is $ 45. After viewing the photos, I would have ranked in the top levels of the VG (VG10) with some fine details of the extent of VG10 + and a reasonable price would be $ 25 to $ 30 range. Unfortunately the seller overgrading and overpricing are compatible.
I'm not sure having site and potential yet at the same time to see the new collectors overpay and soured the hobby. Small auction sites have little (if any) external (third party) blog sites or tools for buyers as we have with e-Bay.
Perhaps we can use this site? The question is how or if someone is interested? You can see what would you like people? Not everything that only named it I'd like proverbial new (a) to help it presented as another resource for collectors as buyers with a useful resource. I may be the only person that so maybe I'm just dreaming but if all you are interested I'm open to the use of this site.
E-Bay is a money making machine and is directed towards sellers and commissions, so that there is any actual interest to move quickly tender in high volume regardless of the quality of the sale. Essentially this is their business model for making money.
This type of auction site is great, if you have a constant flow of product and can easily justify the charges, in exchange for trade, will do, if you were a private company.
Site of Wensy is really catering to low-volume sellers. These are people who sometimes sell things or just have a smaller supply of the product and could not afford continuous levels of fees (remember Wensy is completely free). It is also low price to its feet wet type of thing for small business. Essentially get a free website through the shop front and administrative duties are handled free of charge (no need to pay your children, niece or nephew for people and phone orders).
The only downside is advertising since Wensy is not a business model, but a provider of services and make exactly this free service. Since no revenue is generated from the site (with the exception of certain pittance of google adwords and the occasional generous donation), most of the maintenance of the site is focused on ... duh ... service! But this is not what is small business or entrepreneur must cover? Absolutely Wensy is not responsible for the business to me, but simply service (and to some extent, the supply of free support). As the owner of the business, it must be my creative juices, which decides the advertising gap and if Wensy together with a feature that helps then Great and all the better.
Ultimately cannot compare e-Bay to Wensy! It is apples to oranges, business against the service, you will get the point.
OK ... Starting to ramble tad, time to search for more certain auctions:)
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