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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2528721, member: 56859&quot;]Bidding in foreign auctions can be nerve-wracking, especially when the auction is posted in a language you don&#039;t speak.&nbsp; I took a quick look at Numisbids and on that site WAG&#039;s Terms of Sale are in English.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=sale&amp;sid=1681" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=sale&amp;sid=1681" rel="nofollow">https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=sale&amp;sid=1681</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t bid in WAG and can&#039;t address your specific questions but I have encountered problems with payment a time or two.&nbsp; One auction house required a wire transfer.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t figure that out ahead of time and the coin I bought was modestly priced (hammer less than $300).&nbsp; My bank charges $50 for a wire transfer, plus the receiving bank charges a fee... plus buyer&#039;s premium, currency conversion, shipping... all of those extra fees meant I grossly overpaid for the coin and should not have bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Try writing the auction house about methods of payment.&nbsp; Sometimes when asked they will allow payment by credit card or PayPal.&nbsp; As you probably would assume, most auction houses charge an extra fee for payment by credit card or PayPal (~3-4%).</p><p><br /></p><p>As for export paperwork, the few times that was an issue for me the auction house took care of it without charge, but they also stated in the Terms that they did the paperwork.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve also seen auctions where individual lots are specifically excluded from US bidders because of export issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless there is some rare coin I can&#039;t hope to find elsewhere, when faced with an unfamiliar auction house, confusing Terms of Sale, confusing export issues, etc, I simply don&#039;t bid with them.&nbsp; It&#039;s not worth the stress when so many coins are available without such hassles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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