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Message:: [QUOTE="svessien, post: 5368535, member: 15481"]I often look for new venues, dealers and auction houses, as I’m a government employee and, by that, doomed to be a bargain hunter. I used to buy on ebay when ebay was new, but not any more. (The other day I bookmarked some modern word coins on ebay, and promptly got a discount offer from the seller. Checked with MA-shops, and concluded that it would be at least 20% cheaper to buy the same coins there.) Struggling to keep up a lower middle class living standard while collecting coins has really improved my buying skills with regards to cross checking prices with other dealers and venues. I have turned into becoming rather frugal, and I find that a good trait. I have fond memories of a dealer in Oslo, who combined quite conservative grading with using the Sear books for setting prices. Those were the days. It has become much harder to find bargains lately, I think. So one of my new years resolutions coin-wise is to be less preoccupied with finding cheap buys, and rather focus on finding the coins that I really want and buy fewer and more expensive coins. I like auctions, and I think Savoca, Leu, Nomos, Rauch and CNG have been great to deal with in 2020. I think Savoca has a great operation, and have bought a lot of coins from them the last year, but my goal is to buy fewer of this segment of coins in 2021.[/QUOTE]