If not Ebay then where ?

[Fire1981]

I'm curious what online sources you guys use ?

[wvrons]

The online source I use for buying and selling the most for 20+ years has been Ebay.   Do not rely on Ebay marble listings for correct identifications or all the false claims. I do not know of any place in the world where you daily have as many marbles for sale or sellers and buyers as on Ebay. 

[Fire1981]

I get all that about Ebay. I know a Golden Turd when I see one and didn't know that Akro made Vitro MK Rebel German Hand Mades. It's actually so crazy.Just feel sorry for the Newbies buying groups of crap. So I'm not Pro-Ebay. I just want to know if people are looking at something like Etsy or any other sites.

[Akro75]

I have used Etsy, and honestly I sold on Mercari for ease of listing.....I also bought on Mercari and found some really nice mibs there...you just constantly have to be on top of that site. Recently I have been purchasing on Facebook auctions as well. 

[Fire1981]

One of my objectives here is to sell marbles to Newbies that can't go to shows and or hate Ebay. I'll probably be set up to sell marbles at the end of August. I've seen some really bad groups that Newbies are bidding on groups of 100 for $10-$20 dollar and they are junk. Not gonna happen with me.

[wvrons]

Over twenty years I have watched ten to twenty or more auction sites try to compete in marbles with Ebay.  None of them had any long success.  Bad deals are everywhere online. I have heard of bad deals on Facebook.  It is much easier to lie to someone on a keyboard than it is face to face. If the newbies would return all the junk or any they are not satisfied with ? The bad sellers would get tired of returns and change or stop.  What online auction service has any better buyer protection. Don't like it send it back. Ebay is set up for the buyer not the seller.  I have had a couple cases per year the last 3-4 years with Ebay sellers. Ebay sided with me the buyer each and every time. I wish Ebay would police the marble listings some. But they would need a experienced marble collector full time to even discourage one out of every thousand wrong marble listings. Know before you buy. I have bought from some Ebay sellers for 20 years and not one problem.  A deal to good to be true, probably is correct. Lots of marbles are 95% of the time a gamble.  Gamble and lose then cry. Gamble and win then shout it. Any auction any place know what you are buying.  

[Al Oregon]

If you know the people who are selling marbles on the Facebook Marble pages that allow sales, you should be in good shape.  Also, as sort of a policing measure, if there is a problem on a FB sale, it gets posted on the page and that seller is toast for selling more - unless they correct the problem.  But, as Ron says, no "insurance", etc. except if you pay by Paypal using goods and services (not family, friends), that will give you some protection.

[Berryb]

Yard sales and junk stores. If I can't hold them in my hand I don't want them. Of course the accumulation is much slower, but that's not entirely a bad thing.  thanks

Bruce

[Gina Macias]

On 6/2/2021 at 10:08 PM, Fire1981 said:

One of my objectives here is to sell marbles to Newbies that can't go to shows and or hate Ebay. I'll probably be set up to sell marbles at the end of August. I've seen some really bad groups that Newbies are bidding on groups of 100 for $10-$20 dollar and they are junk. Not gonna happen with me.

That is wonderful to hear because I have purchased a few nice marbles from eBay, most have been lots of new or foreign and I was duped. Thank you for helping out newbies like me.