Collectors Corner....Good, Bad, or Just another portal?

[Hurricane4911-migration]

Has anyone had experience with the Collectors Corner website?

 

To me it appears an aggregation of the larger auction resources...HA, GC, and SB plus and number of small retailers.

 

I can see this as beneficial when looking for a specific, but hard to find coin. Overall, has anyone bought through them, and what were your experiences?

 

 

 

[BillJones]

I have used it at shows to locate coins that were a certain dealer's stock. It gave me a chance to see the coin in person without having to commit to having it mailed to me.

 

It is certainly not a panacea, but it's one more tool that is available to find things on my want list.

[MJ]

I've been frustrated by it

 

MJ

[illini420]

I've bought a few coins through there. But also have been told a few were no longer available and had already been sold at shows.

 

I signed up to start selling there last year and have sold a few coins through there, but not many. Pretty expensive at $99/month and I only really did it as they show my table number at Long Beach and which coins I have at the show when folks do searches. They have tablets located at various places around the show so people can search the bourse for coins, but I don't think too many people do it. Would be a great resource if all dealers at the show participated and had their complete inventory listed, but it's maybe 25% of the dealers and dealers on average maybe have half their inventory listed.

[messydesk]

Before shows I've used it to make note of which dealer may have a coin I want.

[Walkerfan]

It's mostly redundant items from the larger dealer websites, although I DID find something nice there once that wasn't listed anywhere else, so it's worth a look.

[James_OldeTowne]

I've been frustrated by it

 

MJ

 

Yep, me too.

[e1cnr]

Isn't it owned by Collectors Universe and used as a marketing tool to mainly sell some stuff they have graded by customers at full retail market prices?

[coinman_23885]

For some items I collect, there isn't any one specialist or "go to dealer," so for me, it is a useful way to search the inventory of several dealers whose websites I might not not have otherwise visited. I like it.

[RWB]

Not enough dealer participation to be useful. Also, it adds another layer of "stuff" a dealer is expected to do, and likely not worth the extra work. Just thoughts....