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Hello,  My name is Duane.  On the other popular auction site my handle is "dbriggs3".   Please, if you have any reservations due to my feedback rating please check it out there first.  But come back here because the prices are lower over here.  If you see something on the other site that I don't have over here let me know what it is, and I can create it on ebid.net usually for less.  I don't run a business I simply sell what I aquire, or don't need anymore.  I started buying/selling on the other popular auction site in 1999, over the years  I buy and sell in "sprints", I can go several months years without really doing anything significant. 

Currently I'm into selling/buying state quarters...  

 In 1999 I found a states quarters "pinpal" we traded rolls of state quarters.  I bought Denver quarters, my "PinPal" bought Philadelphia quarters.  We swapped quarters at cost.   In 2011 I finally decided to sort and wrap the quarters and sell them.  To avoid having to send quarters in the traditional 40 coin holders which requires 2 tubes for state quarters, I created my own 50 and 56 coin wrappers.  If you buy my roles I include several additionall wrappers with each roll.  One of the designs is a Christmas Stocking design where you can put the name of the child or adult your giving the roll(s) to.

I try to ship quickly but because this isn't a business and I have a day job it may take a day or two to get things packaged and off to post office.

I don't do much busines on eBid.net but hopefully that'll change. eBid has selling options that doesn't cost the seller anything to sell, more importantly they have options so they don't take a percentage of the sellers closing costs, so the only "Comission" I have to pay is to PayPal which is minor compared to the other auctions sites fees.  Unfortunately PayPal charges a minumum  of .30 cents  + percentage.  So it makes selling small cost items, like individual quarters, difficult.  But for the albums and rolls I sell i'm able to pass significant savings to you.  Which I take advantage of( I mean passing savings on to you)  in hopes of doing more and more business on eBid.net.


It's important to understand that most people here and on the other popular auction sites are not professionals, but family people doing exactly what I'm doing and are honest. But because they're not professional business it's important to give the buyer/seller the benefit of the doubt and extra time before taking an action that can't be righted later. With most of my auctions, except for single or double quarter auctions, i provide shipping that includes tracking so that you know with no doubt that the item has shipped and progress is shown and known so that if there's a problem we can work together and with the post office to locate the item. Although tracking provides no guarentee that an item will get delivered without it there's really no recourse or relationship with the postoffice that allows you to follow up, when something hasn't been delivered.  In over 700 transactions in selling/buying I've had several items get lost which were found due to showing the post office that the item had arrived and is somewhere in their office, but not once has an item been actually lost and undelivered to date.

In general as long as I'm dealing with individuals in the United States ( and Canada) I've had no major issues or regrets. I've had a handlful of issues as a buyer with improper packing, so far even these have been worked out.  People tend to know right from wrong and are open to when they've made mistakes and are willing to correct them.

I hate to generalize but the only area in which i've had significant buyers remorse is when dealing with Electronics from China.  I've never had a positive experiance and have always gotten counterfeit or inferior product, not as advertised. For example 99.9% of all 16Gb+ thumb drives coming out of China are fake.  Worst the built in electronics is such that it reports the proper amount but the actual memory available is 4gb, most people are not ever aware of it unless they fill the drive copy it and then actually use the copied data.  These circumstances may not occur for months even years after the auction, long after positive feedback has been left.