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<p>[QUOTE="pprp, post: 4877242, member: 94602"]I took the risk as well and my purchases are quite pricey. Checking their address in google maps it's a semi detached house in a village outside Orleans in France. So now I am having second thoughts :-/ Most photos are out of focus so you have to imagine the rest of the coin which is blurry in the photo and hope there's no hidden damage. BIDDR will of course play the pontius pilatus, they are the platform and they don't care about the contract between the bidder and the auctioneer. And I doubt they even check if this is a professional numismatist or an illegal digger in the near east.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know some will say trust the seller or don't buy etc. I would of course have liked to get the same coins from CNG ([USER=9204]@Ardatirion[/USER]) which I trust very much -although they do upset me sometimes. However coins of the same dies in nearly similar condition sold for 2x or 3x the price in CNG. So if you have no chance against the usual few bidders who will always win, then you have to turn into these weird venues.</p><p><br /></p><p>So now I hope I will not get a few euro coins instead of the coins I won, or the seller will not take the money and disappear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="pprp, post: 4877242, member: 94602"]I took the risk as well and my purchases are quite pricey. Checking their address in google maps it's a semi detached house in a village outside Orleans in France. So now I am having second thoughts :-/ Most photos are out of focus so you have to imagine the rest of the coin which is blurry in the photo and hope there's no hidden damage. BIDDR will of course play the pontius pilatus, they are the platform and they don't care about the contract between the bidder and the auctioneer. And I doubt they even check if this is a professional numismatist or an illegal digger in the near east. I know some will say trust the seller or don't buy etc. I would of course have liked to get the same coins from CNG ([USER=9204]@Ardatirion[/USER]) which I trust very much -although they do upset me sometimes. However coins of the same dies in nearly similar condition sold for 2x or 3x the price in CNG. So if you have no chance against the usual few bidders who will always win, then you have to turn into these weird venues. So now I hope I will not get a few euro coins instead of the coins I won, or the seller will not take the money and disappear.[/QUOTE]
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