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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stephan77, post: 2249394, member: 74244&quot;]&quot;He&#039;s already tryin to get rid of everything he just bought.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand the thought process. In the &quot;olden days&quot; of eBay, 8 or 10 years ago, before all their buyer protection, it was like the Wild West, and I loved it. You could key in on various lots with certain types of sellers, take an educated guess, and make some decent money breaking up the lots and flipping them right back on eBay. I did very well doing this. My favorite model was to buy a lot, flip what I needed to break even, and keep the rest of the lot for my collection so then it was like getting the remainder for free. I have quite a number of coins that I basically got for &quot;free&quot; compliments of eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>But now with the buyer protection, there&#039;s basically no risk in buying from a scammer, so &quot;everyone&quot; just bids on something knowing that if they don&#039;t receive it or don&#039;t like it, then they can return it or get their money back.</p><p><br /></p><p>I prefaced this to say that in my opinion now on eBay, it is difficult if not almost impossible to make a buck buying a lot such as this. Especially from an established coin dealer. I wouldn&#039;t have bought this lot even in the olden days, but in any event, those mentioned eBay olden days are forever gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve read here at CT where some buyers on the forum still find some great deals on eBay from sellers not catching a rare type of error or variety. Unfortunately for me, I don&#039;t have the coin skill needed to look for coins such as this. I still buy on eBay, but I just look for the best bargains I can, for the coins I want for my collection, usually on auctions in which the prices are still usually better than at coin shows and certainly better than at coin shops.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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