@PhysicalCoins4Sale
If you don't mind me asking, how much of a fee did the house take? What was the experience of getting your coins graded by PCGS?
What was the process.
Stacks Bowers places a 20% buyer premium on the sales so they actually sell for 1.2x the hammer price. In the case of large sales Stacks split that 20% with me. On smaller sales they probably keep the whole 20%. That’s their fee. They also have to charge sales tax depending on the location of the buyer.
The experience with PCGS was pretty quick and excellent. Stacks actually handled the whole thing and grading cost just over $100 a coin (paid out of the sale price). Stacks being a large customer of PCGS probably gets a discount and definitely gets some pull on getting coins rush graded. The BTC set they had graded very quickly so they could start advertising it and the LTC coins took a few weeks. Basically if you call in to Stacks and set an appointment to drop off or ship in your coins, they handle the rest. I actually brought mine in to NYC personally and they insured them for free and shipped them to CA for the grading and auction. Very smooth experience.
I actually think that your sets did very well at the auction.
On top of that, SB takes care of almost everything for you... makes it even more yummy.
