Recent content by vos

One example. When I sell, it's pretty frequent to have non paying bidder who bids an unusually high price. These are recorded in the 'sold' category. These are typically from "Australian" accounts with 1 or 2 feedback score from 1 other account. They are fake. There was one example though who...

$2 sales from RAM to banks are interesting. Kind of suggests that the RAM isn't keeping up the $2 demand even with all the coloured ones. Very little demand for $1 or 50c. Reading between the lines, the RAM probably has a stockpile and no need to mint these until Charles' effigy. In sold...

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/204131326848 MS65 or high AU

Making an ebay come back: grade your own shit coin and add a value. Ebay clamped down on this years ago regardless of whether you added disclaimer. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/204118049605

so rare in fact, I thought 5oz had been discontinued until about a week ago. They already have a licence (what ever the Act is called) from government for a combination of reverse/obverse in unlimited mintage. I don't see why they couldn't restrike with QE2 provided they don't change year and...

ah, that's sweet. Specialize in something and collect the fee. Maybe the sales guys are specialists but with 1000s of them it's extremely competitive and you got to share those specialist fees with so many other cnts. The money's often in the small niches. As true for I think income as for...

I haven't really noticed, but then, quadrum has been more for gold and airtites for silver. I have noticed many times that airtites tarnish evenly around the circumference so they are clearly not air tight.

How to look at todays market to make money in ten years Invest in your skills. Skills to actually make things whether physical or digital. Not in skills to make money for other people. Skills seem to pay dividends time and time again and its uncorrelated to business cycles.

The last I remember buying were from a coin shop in Lismore. https://www.onlinecoinsandcollectables.com.au/collections/lighthouse-intercept Yeah just don't drop them ;)

Intercept, I guess. I forget all the marketing names. (Whether air tight matters or not might depend where you live. I have an long running experiment going with fine silver. In country air, it takes about 3 years exposed on a window sill before the first signs of tarnishing.)

Quadrum that I use aren't air tight. Their marketing is saying their plastics prevent oxidization, which seems to work. I like them because they store easily and also present well (read: collectors pay a slightly higher price when they see quadrum).

999 is GST free. I was saying in general that there won't be very many examples of the AUD1000 threshold applying in practice. It's only for very small turnover exporters to Australia. In theory, Bullion Now pays GST on importing a gold eagle but they're suppose to pay to the exporting mint...

Seem to recall RM saying Charles effigy from 2024. I suppose that means, given that there is already QE2 2023 bullion in the wild, that RM and probably RAM use QE2 for 2023? Probaly makes financial sense for them to spend 2023 flooding the market with memorial proofs, sets, coloured coins etc.

I reckon you'll be correct, eventually. I don't see hype from RAM, Auspost, Facebook being sustainable too much longer before attention starts to shift.

How many sold prices are real? All my listings now require immediate payment otherwise I only get new accounts (usually with Indian names) making stupidly high bids that never pay. Maybe coin dealers? buying fake accounts, pumping and dumping their stock.