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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 6917734, member: 110226&quot;]My main strategy with live e-auctions is to avoid getting caught up in the bidding process.&nbsp; It is very easy to become so focused on the moment that all rational thought and perspective goes out the window.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do some homework, researching comp prices both at auction and on retail listings.&nbsp; Also, I try to find something that is interesting and, in a relative sense, not &quot;hot&quot;, although that is becoming increasingly difficult.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t mine losing.&nbsp; I guess as I get older, Ego, never in very high supply for me, has receded over the horizon in later life. Besides, losing, in the Ying/Yang view, serves a very useful purpose.&nbsp; If we didn&#039;t have the concept of losing, how would we know about winning?</p><p><br /></p><p>Tongue and cheek aside, I&#039;ve come to a strategy of bidding my maximum on most coins fairly early on and letting the chips fall where they will. Only on very special occasions I will engage in live bidding.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I think the most satisfying feeling one can have out of any auction is a fair deal on a coin that appeals to me on historical and artistic levels.&nbsp; I guess that I why I am increasingly buying coins through retail sites, such as MA Shops, Vcoins, Forum, etc.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Really, the only auction house I have been active in the past few years is Roma Numismatics, but the strengthening British pound has put a damper on that activity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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