Don't you love it when....

Don't you love it when nobody else spots what's in an auction. I just picked up a lot of Australian silver for melt value and it included a 1918 florin, 1915 shilling and 2x 1921 star shillings. They're only VG condition but even in that condition they're worth like $35-$50 each.

Absolutely; in my case it's usually when no one else even sees the auction itself, since I usually go after individual coins.

I've gotten coins for under their silver value when no one else bid; really sucks when the seller then goes and uses the most expensive delivery service available, perhaps to try recoup their loss.

I like shots like this :D

I like to gamble on bad photos when I think it's a nicer coin that it appears and few will bid. At least 4 out 5 times the coin is, indeed, better than the picture suggests.

I will regularly troll eBay for coin auctions nearing their end. I tend to look for the ones where no one has bid at all and will place a minimum bid. Then I forget all about it until I get a notification in my email that I have won an auction o/ It's awesome to get a really good coin for next to nix. Only twice have I had a Seller refuse to send the said coin on the grounds of "I've lost it" and "It was listed wrong". Meh.

Quote: "Kipsley"​I will regularly troll eBay for coin auctions nearing their end. I tend to look for the ones where no one has bid at all and will place a minimum bid.

​It's quite hard (for me at least!) to find an auction that falls right in the middle of the Venn diagram of my Ebaying, in the overlap between "nearing its end soon", "no one else bidding", "something I actually want", and "reasonable starting price".

I do find something in that sweet spot sometimes!