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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 6234666, member: 26430"]That's a good point, that's why I don't suspect some on Biddr (with their 84,000 coins per weekend or whatever it is) of knowingly auctioning fakes, just careless mistakes due to high volume. I'm not usually bothered by that (cheap coins & group lots need homes too!), but I definitely take it into account and look harder at coins from high volume dealers/auctions. As far as fixed price/dealer sales, none of them like to see their names mentioned in these forums for an accidental fake (and they're paying attention, many/most of them). I expect they manage it with a combination of: a sense of "how hard to look" at the coins coming in (based on who they got them from); having that sixth sense of which types and specific coins bear more scrutiny; keeping aware of trends in fakery (should be checking their Justinian Folles twice now); and -- measure of the last resort -- high vol. dealers are implicitly relying on the public to catch their mistakes and respond accordingly when informed. I also hope that those with 1,000 new coins a month (i.e. 30-40/day) are the ones with a small staff, if you're thinking of say, LAC or Numiscorner/CDMA, not just 1-2 people (doing the photography alone, yikes!).[/QUOTE]