Why would a major player pay 900+ on eBay and only offer you 600+ in a private sale? What am I missing?
Yes that's true, I have had a coin company who purchased 2 Coins on eBay for $5000, the palladium ones that sold for $1,300 from the u.s. mint.
Now I had more to sell ,so I privately emailed them after the sale and asked how much you guys willing to pay for another few coins I have, they said only $2250 or was it's 2300$ because they knew I wasn't getting that amount as there was PayPal and eBay, but interesting enough those two coins that I sold for 5k had no listing fees so would be a loss if I sold the 2300. Meaning there was no final value fee.
All I had to pay was 2.9% for PayPal, $2427.5 in my pocket.