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Buying Gold Coins - Seller list page 1
| Buying gold coins comes down to dealing with someone you know and trust. But for the first time gold buyer, how do you know who to trust ?. Most of this website deals with buying gold coins on E-Bay since this is by far the most popular way. E-Bay is an excellent place for puchasing gold coins but there are things you should know to make sure that you are dealing with a reputable seller. Gold coin purchases usually involve large sums of money so you want to deal with someone you know and trust | Check Sellers Feedback CarefullyTo find good sellers you need to analyze the the sellers on E-Bay and see what their reputations are. We know that we have to buy from sellers with good feedback. But it goes a little further than that. To start with, Try buying gold coins from vendors who have completed at least 200 sales. That number is arbitrary, but it gives a reasonable number of transactions that you can judge to see if the buyer feedback is mostly good. With 200 feedback, you might expect at least 1 or 2 negative experiences but you would be turned off to see more than that. | Make sure the seller has a track record of 200 or more salesFeedback scores are calculated including all the things the seller has bought as well. This is important. You want to see at least 200 feedbacks from sales alone. Many sellers on E-Bay have more feedback from buying than from selling. Sometimes you can check the sellers buying records and even find out what they paid for the coin you are looking to buy! The bigger sellers will generally use separate E-Bay accounts for buying and selling. Shipping charges are also important. E-Bay sellers charge shipping and handling fees that are all over the map. Personally if I am going to spend upwards of a thousand dollars for a coin I believe it should be shipped insured and with a tracking number. That protects both me and the seller. I would be willing to pay for this. Despite that I see a lot of expensive coins being sent through regular mail which is pretty scary. The buyer has no easy recourse if the coin goes missing especially if the seller does not subscribe to Pay-pal or its buyer protection. | Know who your seller is before buying gold coinsInformation about the seller is also important. A good seller will provide contact information. Its much more comforting to deal with established coin shops who happen to sell on E-Bay and have a bricks and mortar store that you can contact about your purchase. But there are some perfectly good coin sellers who only have electronic stores. At the least they should have web pages or about me pages that tell you something about who they are. | Gold Coin Seller RatingsThe listings below are based on my personal research and does not imply these sellers are best. It simply is sharing information about gold coin buying that I have found on E-Bay. You can contribute to it as well. If you know of good sellers let me know so they can be added to the list. The listings are organized in descending order with the vendors who have the most sales on top. I look at seller feedbacks and buyer feedbacks closely. A good vendor will have many more seller feedbacks than their overall feedback number. That tells you they are doing a lot of repeat business. A good seller will also have a low number of buyer feedbacks. You dont want to buy from a seller who gets his high feedback number from primarily buyer feedbacks. Personally I like sellers who have physical stores and who provide all contact information, but that does not mean that the anonymous vendors are bad. There are hundreds of good sellers on E-Bay but I think this list represents some really good places to be buying gold coins from. List of dealers - Page 2 List of dealers - Page 3 List of dealers - Page 4 | Vintage Coin Company - USAOwners: UnknownAddress: UnknownPhone: UnknownFeedback score as at 11/22/2009: 52105, 99.9%. Seller feedbacks: 81462, Buyer feedbacks 91. Extremely successful dealer, strange that someone with such high sales has no contact information. Blue Moon Coins - Titanium PowerSeller, Vancouver, Washington, USAOwners: Ken VilkinAddress: 12014 SE Mill Plain BLVD, Suite 210, Vancouver, WA 98684 Phone: 1-888-533-2646Feedback score as at 11/22/2009: 29648, 100%. Seller feedbacks: 41117, Buyer feedbacks 59. Extremely successful and aggressive dealer, customers are satisfied and return to buy again and again as shown by the seller feedbacks. Ebay member: universalcoins, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaOwners: UnknownAddress: 2440 BANK ST, UNIT 3, Ottawa, Ontario, K1V 8S1Phone: 613-737-3341Feedback score as at 11/22/2009: 20395, 100%. Seller feedbacks: 27461, Buyer feedbacks 2. Successful Canadian coin store and ebay dealer, high seller feedbacks show lots of repeat business. Ebay member: estatejewelry66, Biddeford, Maine, USAOwners: Tom SangilloAddress: 38 Alfred St. Biddeford Maine 04005 Phone: 877-760-GOLDFeedback score as at 11/22/2009: 17419, 99.6%. Seller feedbacks: 21993, Buyer feedbacks 211. Twin City Gold Pawnshop with successful ebay store, lots of repeat business shown by higher seller feedbacks. Sells jewelry as well as coins
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