100, Old West Buffalo Nickels
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:5284773 |
We own several large 500plus storage locker facilities and on occasion people don't pay the rent. Onthe popular reality TV show they claim to auction off units without looking atthe contents first. If you believe that, we have a nice timeshare condo to sellyou on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border with a beautiful view every night of agorgeous fireworks display. It is just down the road from the Catholic andMethodist churches and across from the Jewi...sh Synagogue. Everybody walks the streets on warm summerevenings. On TV have you ever wonderedwhy there is a large group of people standing around but nobody bids except thesame half dozen or so that you saw in the last episode? Unlike theTV show, we examine all contents and if we think the items will do better oneBay or at a local estate auction that is our procedure and that of absolutelyeverybody I know in the same business. If the contents are junk or low end, then we auction units sometimes combined with others as a way of simplyavoiding taking things to the dump and having to pay to do so. If we use the term "antique" it isonly for saying it is old and for use in the category eBay sometimes onlyoffers for something like this. But the true definition of antique is 100 yearsold and this obviously is not. We reallydon't know the exact age or pretend we do. In our opinion, we thought this or these unique items deserved to belisted on eBay and hopefully somebody will enjoy owning. If not, we will call the Salvation Army as weneed to keep the storage units empty & ready to rent as that is ourbusiness. All items going out of theContinental US must be insured and sent Priority International. We can't determine the exact cost until theauction is over. Insurance desiredwithin the US must be requested by the buyer. PayPal is accepted as eBay demands it but any other form of traditionalpayment is cheerfully accepted, even United States currency which is federallyillegal not to accept although eBay doesn't seem to be aware of that.
We never know what we are going to find in boxes and containers in these unpaid and abandoned storage rental units. We opened up a 55 gallon steel barrel recently and much to our surprise were a bags of old Buffalo nickels. It takes a couple of our healthy strong Mexican crew just to lift one bag. We don't know much about coins as we are not collectors so we just counted out a hundred and threw in a few more. The winning bidder gets all of what you see. When those are gone we will list more until they are all gone. Our other option is to take them to a coin store but we know they have to buy for a lot less than what they are worth. And our small fork lift here at the facility can't lift the barrel off the ground into our pickup because it is so heavy. Maybe when we have sold some and there is less weight we can look into that but right now it seems to us that eBay might be the best way to sell them. We estimate there are over 25, 000 total so get use to seeing our auction over and over on these.
If you are outside the U.S.A and eBay quotes you a ridiculous cost for shipping as they often do, pay absolutely no attention to it. We can send insured for pennies compared to what eBay will try to gouge you for. We quote the shipping, not eBay who makes a percentage of the total so the higher they can make the cost, the more they make for themselves. We take extreme issue to that and their ethics.
