welcome guys happy Monday morning I'm
Sean with Blue Ridge silver hound and
today we are gonna take a look at
posting a few listings on eBay I know a
lot of you have had it either issues or
you had questions you just don't know
how to get started what's expected when
you're trying to sell your coins on eBay
hopefully I'm going to help address kind
of like an A to Z solution for you guys
in this video I don't know specifically
how long it's going to take but I figure
we're just going to go ahead and start
right off by discussing the three coins
that we are going to be listing all in
which I have images ready to go the only
thing that we're going to do together is
prepping them for your listing on eBay
now as you can see I'm on the actual
eBay site I actually went into my
account and hit listing or sell and
that'll take you to the next screen well
in which it will ask you if you wanted
to do a single listing or multiple
listings depending on your time and your
efficiency when it comes to doing
something like that you might want to
try and do a gang run of listings
especially for those of you that are
store owners on eBay okay that helps you
guys probably know how to zing right
through that no problem but there are a
few key things a few takeaways a few
best practices that we have to be aware
of to maximize the effectiveness on
selling on eBay and the first one that
one bring up is get all your information
together we have three coins that we're
going to discuss one is a 1956 D over D
Lincoln Cent this is a cherry pickers
guide FS 5:01 variety these are all
coins that I've discovered in the bulk
we'd sent lot so we're gonna go ahead
and list some of those and see what we
could do with those particular coins so
we have that one we have a 1958 d
over D over D rpm that one is w rpm 0 0
1 according to copper coins dot-com and
Wexler site and then finally we have a
1957 bi e die chip that we are going to
list as well this one is 1957 - 40
alright so we have those three coins so
we're going to show you how it's all
done and first and foremost now that we
have the information on the three coins
that we are going to list on eBay let's
go ahead and prep those photos and the
program that I like to use is called
photoscape it's a free software that's
available to you online just go ahead
and download it and then you have video
editing software probably one of the
better ones it's way better than paint
and all the other ones that come on a
computer you know just as a generic type
but I love using photoscape let's go
ahead and fix this here there you go so
that way you can see the top toolbar
it's really easy to use okay I use the
editor function for the most part so
that's what we're going to use I have my
three images a lot of my photos are
going to be in its own designated folder
so I have one called eBay sample alright
so here's all the images and what I did
is I took a close-up of each coin where
the diagnostic is or the main feature
part of the coin and then I take an
entire image of the obverse and the
reverse of the coin you're going to need
three images per coin and you'll see why
here in a second but what I want to do
is to take some of these images where
you have a lot of space in this
particular case yes white smudges here
that were on the table or the box or
whatever used to display your coin on
what I like to say is when you're gonna
good when you're going to do point shots
is you have a contrasting background to
the color of your coin so this case this
is a really nice kind of like
you example 1957 Lincoln we'd set
alright you saw some of the mint red and
some of the protective areas right here
okay this will look good offset against
a dark background alright I would say
the same with uh you know things like
silver alright are great to photograph
with a darker background so what I want
to do with this first is we're gonna go
ahead and crop it so that way we
eliminate a lot of the dead negative
space and you can either do it one of
two ways you could do just a square and
come up real close to the edges like so
we're gonna hit enter and there you go
now the way the images are set okay
because I've cropped it and now it's
already blown up quite a bit you're
gonna experience a little bit of
out-of-focus mess about it and that's
fine we could also crop it to the
perimeter of the coin as close as you
can and then your background will
automatically be set to black there you
go so that's the first one we're gonna
go ahead and save it it says stay in the
same folder let's go ahead and do the
next one and I think we're just gonna go
ahead and do the same deal now the
reverse of this coin right here I didn't
do a very good job at taking the images
I have an iPhone XR I don't have the
newest model yet was the 11 or 11 Pro
alright it's a little bit out of focus
so there's a few things you can do to
kind of change this on photoscape
alright you could do a contrast
enhancement where it really picks out
some of the the details and sharpens it
you can do this a few times actually
there you go some bad so we're gonna go
ahead and run with this it's still a
little bit out of focus but that's okay
that's not the main focal point for this
particular coin so we're gonna go ahead
and do the next one and as you save them
and as you can see it will say that with
the modifications on there
all right so again the idea is that we
are gonna have a full-on verse of
reverse shot of every coin that you sell
whether it's encapsulated slab or
whatever or raw it does doesn't really
matter so this one even though it's
pretty nice it has a few kind of like
just little Nick's here and there on
Lincoln's jacket okay so that's gonna
show up but you want the best quality
photos for your listings alright so
here's the 58 it's a little bit of a
process you know you take the time to do
the the work on your images to clean
them up and you're you're going to
achieve much better results because
presentation is everything when it comes
to sales on online if the images aren't
clear or concise enough people more
unlikely will not buy your items okay
and that's that's not what we want here
we want to be able to have about an 80%
sale rate on all the items that's that's
what's gonna make it worthwhile alright
and then pricing it appropriately is
going to be paramount in ensuring that
you are not going to scare away
customers for these coins alright so
again for some of these coins that have
kind of like a monotone you know kind of
like the the X X F a you brown coins I
like to do a little contrast enhancement
to pull out some of the the details off
of there so that way people can see
exactly what they're they're getting so
here are the close-up images of the RPMs
so this one right here I took with my
phone scope attachment on my iPhone snap
this image and it looks great okay
theoretically I don't have to do
anything with this photo let's go ahead
and see what it looks like
with a middle contrast enhancement and
it pulls it out a little bit okay that's
probably all that you can do you don't
want to juice or doctor the photos too
much to give it a false appearance of
something that it isn't
so we're just gonna roll with that
here's the 56 D over D let's go ahead
and do a little contrast enhancement
there not bad I would say that looks
pretty gosh darn good
and finally the BIE now this one right
here this one if you're not careful this
one can kind of get lost because of just
how monotone it is so I did a maximum
contrast enhancement now I can continue
to do it again and again but if you keep
doing it it's it's it's gonna make it
really sharp but it's also gonna make it
super super like greeny because it's
gonna pull out every single detail so
it's something like this what I also
want to do is draw an arrow so we're
gonna go ahead and draw in a an arrow to
designate exactly what you want the
audience to draw their eyes to so that
looks way too skinny you might have to
resize them - yeah they're these are way
too big so we're gonna resize it so that
way it looks like this
twelve hundred by a thousand is great I
think I'm gonna have to go back and do
the other images real quick hold it
better bump up the size of
there so it draws your eye to that what
you could also do is type in sorry guys
I was using this on my last video so
what I could do is type in the the codes
on coins attribution number like so and
then I could now probably keep this
black let's see what it looks like
take out the outline and it's go ahead
and click and drag this here to the
corner so they will show up in the
listing twice it'll show up in the mean
the mean descriptor line and it will
show up on the image as well okay so
that looks pretty good let's go back and
just do a little resize because if the
file is too big it will be rejected on
eBay and you're gonna have to go back
onto photoscape and change it anyway so
that that could be kind of a pain so we
want to make sure that we do this in
advance to save on time and to help
expedite the process especially if you
have a lot of listings that you need to
post up it's important so at the end of
the video and if you guys have questions
I would expect you guys to go ahead and
post them below I'll do the best I can
to address them then in there I might
follow up this with a an actual live
stream and week or two about the subject
kind of like a ebay clinic of sorts
hopefully that'll help
but you see what I'm doing okay so we've
been on this video for 12 minutes and
this seems like a waste of time by I
guarantee you you got to put in the
quality work of prepping your photos
before you do the listings that's
important people buy what they want
because they like the appearance of
something all right so we're all done
with the photos I guess the only other
thing that I can do is I could take the
images of the obverse and reverse and
gang them up into pairs I think I'm just
gonna go ahead and do that so I use the
combine function eBay sample and we were
just gonna go ahead it's way too big
short this down a little bit
hey gang them up so that way you have
the obverse and reverse at the same
point on the same picture so we're gonna
go ahead and save that
my computer is no boy no this morning
it's a little bit on the slow side all
right so we got that one down let's go
ahead and take care of the next set 5060
D over D and then finally we're gonna go
ahead and do the 58 D over D over D all
right so we we have all our images
squared up they are all set and ready to
go
so we got the the double we have the
close-up image of each coin that matters
so I'd say we're ready to go with the
eBay listing so let's go ahead and go to
the the listing and I figured we're
going to go ahead and start out with the
56 D over D cherry picker sky variety so
we're gonna go ahead and browse
categories we are going to go into coins
paper money and it's real simple we're
just going to drill all the way down
till we get it to Lincoln cents for this
one the only one that we're going to use
for errors is going to be the BIE dye
chip this is a wheat cent so we are
gonna go ahead and do the 1909 to 1958
we'd set that's gonna go ahead create
the draft the cool thing is if you know
you're gonna continuously list a lot of
coins what you can do is create a
template alright so you're gonna be
posting a lot of RPM Lincoln cents
create one template so that way you
don't have to type everything out so we
got 1956 Lincoln Cent rpm we are gonna
put it in as FS - five zero wanted
cherry pickers
Gide we're gonna do a little quick have
quick estimate xf+
greed aside from that I mean you could
put in little buzzwords like you know
amazing okay you could put you know
amazing variety with exclamation point
to help draw the viewers attention to
that particular coin but this is it too
too big because this is going to be the
first thing that people see before they
decide they want to click into the
listing so it's important to have a very
impactful title if you don't have that
and you're just kind of willy nilly with
it and you're just lame at it I don't
expect you to be lame but put your best
effort into complete making a complete
title putting as much information as you
possibly could in there and you're gonna
have something that's going to draw the
attention yet combine that with the
images and you have the recipe for a lot
of great success on eBay so we're gonna
go ahead and run with that we're going
to keep amazing variety on there
category you want to just audit that it
says small cents Lincoln Meade 1909 in
1958 condition is not applicable for
this one we're gonna go ahead and pop on
to images so let's go ahead and do that
hope everyone had a fun time with the
football festivities yesterday whether
your team won or lost
hopefully it was a good time oh let's
see that's the 57 56 so we're gonna go
ahead and start by posting the close-up
and then we're gonna go ahead and post
up the other now the cool part is that
just make sure I get the right one on
dirt it's going to be the boring owl
this one
there we go so we have the two images we
have the close-up which is the one that
is what you want because that's going to
be the image that's gonna be your coin
do not use stock images that is bullcrap
and it's false advertising and you're
gonna be asking for a return for sure
alright so we got two images usually
with eBay every 30 days you get up to
what free 50 free listings so you don't
have to pay for the actual listing which
is nice certification it's uncertified
and it is circulated you you can take
the time to go ahead and put in all this
information additional information if
applicable I usually stay away from
grade and all that you just want to use
kind of like a vague you know kind of
generic grade for stuff like that now
item description okay you keep it as
brief as possible while adding in all
the information so what I like to do
here and I'm gonna go ahead and enable
advanced editing and you guys have
probably seen my listings before so I
have kind of like a standard layout up
for consideration semicolon and I'll
just type in 1 1956 D over D Lincoln
we'd sent rpm whatnot wrong and then
we'll type in the other information like
we did in the title so it's going to be
FS 501 cherry pickers guide variety xf+
Edition and what I'll do to further
elaborate it please check out the images
of the coin for an accurate look at the
great and then what I like to do for the
made part of the information I will blow
this up a little bit
let's do 24 keep everything smaller and
also put I try my best to be as accurate
that's why I write as possible whose
people thank you for looking at my item
please check out my other listings for
other neat variety and error coins which
which gives them the ability that they
could click on my name and go ahead
check out some of my other listings
alright so you could do that another
thing you could do is changes to a
different color so let's go and throw on
a little bit cool blue on there not bad
alright draws the eye it's nice and
appealing it's like it's not gonna
stress you out any so what I'm gonna go
ahead and do is I'm going to copy this
because let me use the same thing for
the next listing so I'll do a little
ctrl C action and then let's just go
ahead and finish out the rest so we're
gonna do a seven-day option style it is
Monday so it's going to end on a Monday
if I put it up now it's gonna end a few
minutes before 10:00 p.m. Pacific time I
think I'm okay with that
for this particular listing because it's
a low dollar value item starting price
is going to be whatever amount of money
that you feel comfortable letting it go
for for me we're gonna do $4.99 that's
it like I said all these coins I've
found are worth between 5 and 10 bucks
so you know someone pops in a quick
little bit at $4.99 and that's all it
sells for I would be cool with that
alright so and I have a ton of them so I
have a whole bunch of them to get rid of
but you this is this is one coin one
item alright so returns on something
like this because it's a low dollar
value usually I won't do any returns
whatsoever but go ahead and just keep
this on here I mean it's really at the
discretion of the buyer if they love it
or hate it you know it is only 5 bucks
the the buyer will have to pay for the
shipping in this case it's just gonna be
a forever stamp so we're gonna go ahead
and keep that as is for this one we're
gonna do free shipping
I'm gonna package it up and put it in a
number 10 envelope so it'll be nice and
safe and it'll ensure that'll fall under
however whatever the max amount of
ounces are for one forever stamp fees
zero
yay we got no fees no promoted listings
do not promote those so pay the extra
money for advertising let's see I don't
know if I have to put anything else in
for ya I gotta finish up the package
requirements custom wait zero pounds
zero ounces a pound or less is what I do
alright so I have everything just go
ahead and do the once-over
56 D over D Lincoln wheat cent FS 501
cherry picker sky variety accept plus
condition really nice coin for 5 bucks
again there you go
has to two images pretty nice that
ladies and gentlemen is how you do it
you guys can check it out later and go
on eBay because I am legit posting this
right now all right so we got one
listing down we got two more to go so
sorry to keep it so long but hopefully
you guys grabbed a cup of tea or coffee
or maybe you guys are heading to launch
whatever the case may be
so we're gonna go ahead and do another
draft create listing single recently
used categories and then we're going to
do one more we'd set for the fifty a
Triple D which is pretty nice so same
thing we're going to do 1958 D over D
over D use capitals Lincoln wheat cent
rpm copper coins or we can leave off
copper coins to stick do W rpm
attribution number double zero one
pleasing a you brown it's actually more
red brown red brown condition there you
go
pretty nice so we're gonna go ahead and
do the same thing and if you guys had
saved the template that'll make it
easier for you so we got the that one
there for the close up and we just have
to put up the other image for the double
so the image that's the fur in the first
box will be the main image that's
displayed in the listing count so if I
swap this over it'll be the double its
what you'll see you don't want that
you'll want to click and drag and make
sure that the image that you want
portrayed with a title is going to be in
box number one keep that in mind
alright uncertified make sure you hit up
all the red asterisk pieces because
that's important we're gonna go ahead
and do the same thing again it gets kind
of monotonous when you have dozens of
various listings to do
so this one right here is one I like to
specify that you're receiving one then I
go back to my standard default colors
for the secondary lines this is a very
nice dramatic rpm for the date very nice
condition but please reference the
photos of the actual point that you will
receive and I use you because it kind of
like throws in like a little bit of
personal ownership of the coin like oh
yeah check out the photos of the coin
you won't receive because you will put a
bit in so uh you know same thing thank
you for checking out my listing please
look at my other auctions for more coin
errors and varieties boo alright so we
got that one down let's go ahead and
finish her up seven days style $4.99
okay and however many bids come in after
that above and beyond before nine I and
it's kind of like gravy
I will net out about two fifty three
dollars each listing by a time it's all
set done that's factoring in the eBay
fees and all the other great stuff
free shipping custom wait pounder less
there you go
send her on her way and generally it'll
take about a minute to do each listing
once you've done one you kind of hit
your stride and then you're good to go
all right ladies and gents we have one
more listing to do and this one we are
gonna do in error coins so we're gonna
do a different category so coins some
paper money US coins and errors that
pretty much sums it up
that's what we're gonna do all right so
for this one it's going to be a bie so
it's a 1957 Lincoln wheat cent bie dye
chip now I like to separate like things
by hyphens so in this case I'll put the
attribution LD b4 - 1957 - 40 awesome
die break or Die chip awesome error the
only thing I forgot to put on there is
going to be a you there you go 1957
Lincoln when tweet sent bie die chip LD
be four - 1957 zero four zero a you
condition all right so we got that there
it's gonna post their photos same thing
guys same same thing okay this one has
the attribution typed in on there which
will help as well people like that sort
of thing here
there you go so the first image here
with the actual break this is going to
be to my main image alright so this is
an uncertified coin circulated most of
them art circulated unless you really do
have a gem be you type point alright and
then our usual deal changes up here and
you can change the font to depending on
how you're feeling so you're gonna be
receiving 1 1957 Lincoln wheat set bie
dye chip Liberty cuts on points LDV 4 -
1957 - 0 4 0 so let's go ahead finish
her up with the rest of the information
ok will do 18 for this one real nice
that by Lincoln real nice readed listed
to be a you read around
please examine the photos for a accurate
thank you for looking and please feel
free to check out my other coin errors
in varieties hey you can also put in and
I combined shipping or whatever of
course if you're using a number 10
envelope with a stamp you got to be
careful that you don't overshoot the
shipping estimate because if you say oh
yeah I can combine you know everything
that you're gonna have to upgrade to a
padded mailer and you have to upgrade to
you know a different shipping option
possibly you never know so this one's
you'd be $4.99 it's usually my go-to for
something like this returns accepted
less than a pound free shipping and we
are good to go it's appropriate I live
in the city of Lincoln and I like to
collect Lincoln's I think that was a
match made in heaven
alright so that that pretty much sums it
up that wraps up everything when it
comes to putting up professional eBay
listings okay you want to be make sure
again that you type in all of the
appropriate information make sure you
have clear concise photos of everything
you sell when it comes to coins a clear
verse or the front or back or the
reverse of the coin so you have at the
very least two images per point you want
make sure it's very well and focused if
you guys have better
camera equipment like a you know a SLR
or you know one of those newer iPhones
or Android devices I mean those things
are pretty good then you could get super
super quality photos but all in all does
is what you do okay
probably a few other things I would like
to say is again don't overshoot the
amount of money that you want for your
coin because the higher the initial
starting price the higher your fees
going to be right now they're free but
we're putting up five dollar coins five
dollar listings for seven days you pay
fees for one-day listings which if
you're really hard up keep in mind
you're not gonna get a full maximum
value for your item if you do a one-day
listing they're kind of short selling
yourself another thing to keep in mind
is know exactly how much you're shipping
is going to be some people get a little
sticker shock when they put up something
for sale and it's heavy and they
undervalue the amount of shipping that
they're going to take for the for
singing and sending it off to the buyer
make sure that you have all your ducks
in a row it's fun it's fun to find coins
and then sullen especially when you have
them already you want to sell duplicates
man that's where it's at but anyways
that's gonna go ahead and conclude it
for today
would love to hear you guys's questions
and comments regarding how to post up
successful eBay listings and let's see
let's roll it let's see if these things
sell it should sell I should get at
least one bid per each using just all of
the things on there so keep an eye out
for these listings - my eBay name is
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