Does anyone have any info on Gold Standard Auctions ? They have a few coins I've been coveting but at a hefty price. Normally I would inspect any coin I plan to spend more than $200 (except for a couple auction houses I've been dealing with for years), but the distance to go is prohibitive.
Yes.... I recently made that mistake. They juice up those photos. I won about a half dozen coins from them 4-5 months back and every one was cleaned and/or polished. Their descriptions are very misleading.... "newly uncirculated" or "closely circulated"... Gobbledygook descriptions designed to mislead you into believing that the juiced up photos are quality coins..... I bid on six coins. I put in a max bid for each coin and miraculously, each coin was won at exactly my max bid. They don't shoot straight. Bad news all the way.
Here's the thread on my disastrous dealing with them. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-lesson-learned-dont-make-my-mistake.417937/#post-26228671
Thanks. Yeah, I was kind of wondering about the "closely" or "nicely" uncirculated terms. I thought it might just be their eccentric way of describing a coin. I'll certainly take your experience under advisement.
I tend to go in on some local auctions and as a result I get flyers from other auctions. The Gold Standard flyer was a glitzy one and caught my attention and I do try to be cautious in this day and age. But they sucked me right in and all I want is for others to learn from my mistake. You just don't have six coins magically bid up to your secret max price. Their are a lot of good coin auction houses out there but Gold Standard is not one of them.
