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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 643132, member: 15309&quot;]Rigo,</p><p><br /></p><p>You will find that peoples opinions in life vary more because of their perspective than they will because of things like right or wrong.&nbsp; If you want me to get upset that a guy is baking his coins in an oven and selling them to newbies for $40, well I just can&#039;t muster the energy to care.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t because I condone what that seller is doing or that I think it is right.&nbsp; The problem is that $40 just isn&#039;t worth my time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that you find sellers such as these despicable and think they should all be out of business.&nbsp; However, in a very strange way, they serve a valuable purpose.&nbsp; All of the newbies who buy these coins have obviously no regard for the philosophy of &quot;caveat emptor&quot; and have not bothered to educate themselves about the hobby prior to spending their money.&nbsp; Eventually each of these collectors will learn that they were ripped off.&nbsp; And though they may get upset, most will realize that they just learned a very valuable lesson for a bargain price.&nbsp; Hopefully, they will learn the lesson before they graduate into make much bigger costlier numismatic purchasing mistakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I personally spent thousands of dollars on raw Barber quarters before I learned a similar lesson.&nbsp; I don&#039;t hold the E-bay sellers responsible for my mistakes.&nbsp; That responsibility rests squarely on my shoulders.&nbsp; To read more about it, please read this thread:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t40415/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t40415/">http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t40415/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, the seller never claims that the coins are NT.&nbsp; He simply lists an item on E-Bay and people bid on them.&nbsp; If you really want to be upset, you should be upset that he lists the coins as gem bu when they are not.&nbsp; It is not my intention to play devil&#039;s advocate with you, but you would be wise to try to understand the opinions of others that disagree with you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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