Check your change! Kew Gardens 50p coin attracting £310 bids on eBay

Aquamania

I've a few tulip bulbs left if anyone is interested.
I hear they could be scarce due to so many rotting because of the wet weather we've had this year.

o.i.e.o. £1000 each :cool:

Stoke

Money is great... I can exchange it for goods and services.

Why would I exchange a large sum of money... for less money? Some very strange people in this world.

vekma

sold a few myself get about £6 do not know were they are getting them figures from

worldtraveller

vekma wrote: »

sold a few myself get about £6 do not know were they are getting them figures from

Circulated "good condition" coin just closed at £100 on ebay.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1759-2009-...item3cdcb35148

robatwork

Money is the best way of telling how much money we have:

http://www.radiolive.co.nz/VIDEO-Philomena-Cunk---Moments-of-Wonder---Money/tabid/504/articleID/40690/Default.aspx

The_Tin_Dog

There have been lots of news items and comments about the Kew Gardens 50p with it's 'rare' tag as a result of the low mintage of 210,00.

I was wondering how much one of the 1992-1993 EU commemorative 50ps would be worth as they only minted 109,000 of them !

derlwyn

dizzydoll wrote: »

A fool and their money are soon parted.

They may call me dizzy, but even I am not dumb enough to pay £310 for a 50p coin.

I wonder if the winning bidder will ever pay, or will this be another one of those media hypes that attracts brand new ebay bidders making bids in the £millions?

I must admit I did sell a 20p coin for a couple of quid on ebay a few years back because it didn't have a date on the reverse. I asked the buyer if he wanted any more, but never got a response back ... not even any feedback.

Have you got any more of the 20p's ?

mattyprice4004

Aquamania wrote: »

Talk about profiteering.

This seller has been trying to offload them for a month - sold one last month at £16.99.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360425302367

Yesterday sold 3 more at £19.99 and ended the listing.

Reposted, starting at £22.99 and kept raising the price over a couple of hours to £39.99 ... and still sold 47 of them (over 20 at £39.99)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360865227597

Again seller ended listing and reposted this time at £42.99 selling a further 14
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360865250299

Not bad for a few hours work at the most - sit back and watch the £££s roll in!


Notice the seller is hiding behind a PO BOX too

It's called business - buy something cheap, and resell for a higher price.

mossstitchmama

Just got given one in my change from The Works. It's off to eBay for me now!

bethanyhen

My mother-in-law has offered one of these to the family. She got it in some change from a purchase. She's told the family: 'highest bidder gets it'. I just looked on ebay and they're selling fast - multiple bids on many listings. In 'completed listings' they seem to have sold for anything between 30 and 50 pounds, some even more.