ALL ITEMS (UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED IN THE ITEM DESCRIPTION) CAN BE COMBINED AT NO ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST. PAYMENTS SENT USING PAYPAL MUST BE IN CANADIAN DOLLARS PLEASE.

Canadian clients can choose to pay via PayPal, e-mail money transfer (EMT), personal cheque, money order, and even cash if it's handy. Anyone wanting to send cash does so at their own risk as I am not responsible for non-delivery and non-registration of packages containing cash sent to me. No local pick-up option is available, sorry.

MY FAVORITE PAYMENT METHOD FROM U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL clients is PayPal. I can take personal cheques and postal money orders from U.S. customers, but if you want to use this payment method, I insist that you confirm the total with me before sending your payment. Either contact me through ebid messaging, e-mail, or get the total from the bottom of the invoice. If you do not include funds for shipping, your item(s) will not be shipped. Canada Post is expensive, I know, but the prices given in my listings are not inflated for the purposes of ebid fee avoidance (ebid seller fees are too low to even consider that).

Thank you for your interest in my All About Me page.

I am a collector and part-time seller of coins and paper money. I am also a member of other online auction sites. Right off the top, I want to clarify that members of eBid.net like myself are NOT banned from eBay. I can choose to sell on that site if I feel like it, but I usually have to price my items higher over there because the seller fees are outrageous. Since I joined eBid in May 2008, guess how many times the fees have increased here? The answer is zero. The number of times the seller fees have gone up at eBay is definitely not zero. Each time the fees go up at eBay, I have to compromise and put a great deal of thought into how to sell stuff there. Here on eBid, I can sell items for the price I want without the hassle of trying to keep my seller fees down. I don't know what makes eBay think they deserve a growing cut of our revenue. And don't kid yourself, it's not sellers who end up swallowing the higher selling fees on eBay. It's the buyers who bear the costs in the end. This is due to eBay being a publicly-owned company that requires ever-increasing revenue to satisfy its shareholders. Since eBay is losing market share in Internet commerce to other sites (like this one), they have to increase revenue from a lower number of items being offered by a lower number of sellers over time. A privately-owned and privately-operated website like eBay has smaller overhead costs without the same profit motive. This translates into better pricing for buyers.

When I'm not selling stuff online, I am also maintaining my own website that has been online since 2003, Give-a-Buck Coin and Paper. I am member 1439 of the Canadian Paper Money Society (CPMS), and I am involved directly in current research topics concerning Canadian paper money printing and numbering practices. You may have seen some of my articles in the CPMS quarterly Newsletters over the past 3 years.

The Canadian numismatic community needs an alternative to eBay. I suggest that eBid.net could be that alternative. Tell your friends and colleagues to give eBid a try.

Cheers,
Mark M