How well did this guy do on his unsearched roll?

[JerrySpringer]

http://www.reddit.com/r/CRH/comments/1h ... t_me_know/

[creshka46]

$36 !?!

He lost at least $20

[Numis Pam]

$36 !?!

He lost at least $20

Yeah that's about what I was thinking too... I don't think he won... I think he way lost on those.

[barrytrot]

He thinks he made a profit though, so that probably explains how these rolls keep appearing.

[Morsecode]

He thinks he made a profit though, so that probably explains how these rolls keep appearing.

yep

[Zincanator]

I know it's been discussed many times before... as soon as I see the word "unsearched" in any EvilBay auction, I translate that to a roll of carefully inventoried coins.

IMO those that sell "unsearched" rolls in bulk typically fill each roll manually, planting the occasional nice cent among hundreds of common dates to keep the feedback littered with the occasional "WOW I FOUND A 1909VDB! WILL BUY MORE!". This keeps hopes and bids high trying to be the next coin roll lotto winner. May have better odds in Vegas... I donno.

And then of course there's the tired old trick of putting a nice coin on the end(s) and filling the rest of the roll with commons. One of the comments on that blog says not to pay over $1 what the end cents showing are worth. That's pretty smart I think.

[barrytrot]

And then of course there's the tired old trick of putting a nice coin on the end(s) and filling the rest of the roll with commons. One of the comments on that blog says not to pay over $1 what the end cents showing are worth. That's pretty smart I think.

I saw that logic as well. However, that would then make it impossible to ever buy one of these as even at 3 cents each the wheat cents in the middle will be worth $1.44.

And I experimented with these for a while, simply as a curiosity and the average price is VERY HIGH. It was never close to $1 over the end-roll coins.

NOTE: Impossible to ever buy one is a GOOD SYSTEM for these though, so it's ok

[cesariojpn]

I know it's been discussed many times before... as soon as I see the word "unsearched" in any EvilBay auction, I translate that to a roll of carefully inventoried coins.

IMO those that sell "unsearched" rolls in bulk typically fill each roll manually, planting the occasional nice cent among hundreds of common dates to keep the feedback littered with the occasional "WOW I FOUND A 1909VDB! WILL BUY MORE!". This keeps hopes and bids high trying to be the next coin roll lotto winner. May have better odds in Vegas... I donno.

And then of course there's the tired old trick of putting a nice coin on the end(s) and filling the rest of the roll with commons. One of the comments on that blog says not to pay over $1 what the end cents showing are worth. That's pretty smart I think.

Technically speaking, the "unsearched rolls" actually violates eBay rules about lotteries if your willing to hash it out.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/lis ... affle.html