How well did this guy do on his unsearched roll?
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:09 am$36 !?!
He lost at least $20
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:09 amRe: How well did this guy do on his unsearched roll?
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:46 amRe: How well did this guy do on his unsearched roll?
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:48 amcreshka46 wrote:$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.
Re: How well did this guy do on his unsearched roll?
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:23 amHe thinks he made a profit though, so that probably explains how these rolls keep appearing.
Re: How well did this guy do on his unsearched roll?
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:13 pmbarrytrot wrote:He thinks he made a profit though, so that probably explains how these rolls keep appearing.
yepRe: How well did this guy do on his unsearched roll?
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:23 pmI 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.
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.
Re: How well did this guy do on his unsearched roll?
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:19 pmZincanator wrote: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
Re: How well did this guy do on his unsearched roll?
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:29 amZincanator wrote: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