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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 952435, member: 25357&quot;]Race&#039;s Rules for buying coins on EBay:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1.&nbsp; Educate yourself about the coins you are seeking.&nbsp; Know how to grade the coin that is being offered.&nbsp; Know how to spot a cleaned coin.&nbsp; Know the retail (red book) and wholesale (greysheet) prices for the coins you are considering.</p><p>2. Study the photos to determine the grade and hence the value of the coin.&nbsp; If the photos are blurry or lighting is bad, stay away.&nbsp; You can probably eliminate 30-40% of the coins out there using this simple rule.&nbsp; You can usually tell a cleaned coin if the photo is decent.</p><p>3.&nbsp; Educate yourself about the seller.&nbsp; Check his feedback rating.&nbsp; Use Toolhaus, that is a great site that has been recommended to me by others in this forum.&nbsp; It gives you more insight into real feedback.&nbsp; Feedback is there to protect the buyer from unscrupulous sellers.&nbsp; If I see more than one or two negative feedbacks in the last year, I stay away.</p><p>4.&nbsp; Ensure you buy from only sellers who have a return policy.&nbsp; This is your out.&nbsp; Coins will often look different in hand than they do even in the best photos.&nbsp; If you get one you don&#039;t like, send it back.&nbsp; Often you have to pay return shipping, but that&#039;s pennies on the dollar and well worth protecting yourself from getting ripped off.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you follow these rules you can have a pleasureable experience on EBay, and even come out ahead.&nbsp; I like the challenge of it, the roll searcher analogy is a good one, there are lots of dirtbag sellers out there, your challenge is to wade through them and find the good deals.&nbsp; There really are some great deals and a lot of good, low priced coins out there on the Bay.&nbsp; By following the rules above you can stack the deck in your favor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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