Software etc for detection new coin offers from dealers, ebay etc.

[Guest JNC]

I'm fairly new to coin buying on the Net and certainly not very computer experienced. Can anyone tell me if there's software or suchlike, to detect when a certain type of coin (national, period, king, series, hammered or milled etc), is offered on the Internet websites or on eBay? I feel there might be, as certain people I know of, seem to know immediately something that they're interested in comes up for sale. These people are very busy professionals and I can't for the life of me see, how they can surf the net 24 hours a day, to go to the numerous websites that these coins are offered on. Any information most gratefully received. Thanking you in advance. JNC.

[Paulus 1,996]

I'm fairly new to coin buying on the Net and certainly not very computer experienced. Can anyone tell me if there's software or suchlike, to detect when a certain type of coin (national, period, king, series, hammered or milled etc), is offered on the Internet websites or on eBay? I feel there might be, as certain people I know of, seem to know immediately something that they're interested in comes up for sale. These people are very busy professionals and I can't for the life of me see, how they can surf the net 24 hours a day, to go to the numerous websites that these coins are offered on. Any information most gratefully received. Thanking you in advance. JNC.

Hi, welcome to the forum!

I only know about eBay, you can save an advanced search, for example auctions about particular coins or containing certain words, and it will automatically email you when a match comes up - a few too many emails about the same coin, but it works well for me!

Hope this helps

[Peter 615]

JNC

The dealers lists on the net are random and under many formats.A lot of good stuff will go before it appears on the net.

Either get to know a few dealers or occassionally strike lucky.

Try a coin fair where you may have 50 dealers stock to look through...although I have had success on net searching to find what I was after coin fairs have always produced.

Look at auction catalogues on the net.

Good luck.

Peter

[TomGoodheart 447]

I have about 50 dealers sites bookmarked, though I only check four daily. After a while you learn which dealers update their sites regularly and which don't. Several have a'recently added' button that is useful.

I also have 5 search categories on ebay and have set up an email reminder once a week that tells me if my favourite ebay sellers have added new stock.

But then I do spend an inordinate amount of time on the internet. I don't watch TV and only occasionally read fiction books so any morning or evening when I'm not at work, I'm surfing.

However I should point out that my collection is not only quite specialised but there are few coins I actually want/need. If your interests are the sorts of coins that most dealers stock, then it should be possible to find a handful of dealers whose prices are acceptable to you that you can check fairly quickly.

[declanwmagee 122]

With patchy success, I've been playing with Google custom search engines recently. I have a few dozen bookmarked dealer sites and I wanted to be able to search them for a particular coin. So you enter you search term into the Google box, like normal, but instead of searching the entire galaxy, it just searches the websites you specify.

Like I say though, patchy success with it so far. Bit like my mechanics!