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Message:: [QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 7805002, member: 118780"]The two have vastly different audiences. EBay - Is mostly novices, the majority of whom aren't familiar with ancient coins. Many collectors (myself included) avoid it like the plague due to the high number of fakes. This means the majority of buyers don't have deep pockets and aren't willing to bid things up too high, though they're also not aware of the true prices. Heritage - Mostly high-end buyers with deep pockets. Because they sell a lot of slabbed, they also attract buyers from modern coins, who aren't aware that slabs don't matter for ancients. Many of these buyers also aren't aware of pricing, but given their deep pockets tend to bid things up. Personally, I avoid both EBay and Heritage, but for different reasons. On EBay, there are just too many fakes. There are sellers I trust on EBay, but all of them are either on VCoins or ma-shops, and I buy from there. I understand that if you really know what you're looking at, there can be great bargains, but I prefer the lower risk of buying only from sellers I've vetted and trust. For Heritage, I've bid a few times on there, but at least on the coins I've pursued they've gone 50% to 100% over what I felt they were worth, so I moved on.[/QUOTE]