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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 8485373, member: 15481&quot;]I often find myself agreeing 100% with [USER=26302]@medoraman[/USER] . I think the last thing he said here is a very good reason to have at least a few more venues that you follow besides ebay:</p><p><br /></p><p>«There is a real danger at looking at Ebay. The danger is if you look at enough fakes, pretty soon your eye cannot pick them out as well. I haven&#039;t looked at Ebay in over a year, but looked at tons of good auctions. I bet I would simply see the fakes pretty clearly right now, since my eye is used to good coins. However, with enough looking at Ebay and not at good auctions, eventually I feel this would go away and you would get used to looking at fakes.»</p><p><br /></p><p>When I started collecting, it was 95% ebay. I tried to do my dilligence, and was not fooled too many times, luckily. But at that time I couldn’t imagine spending more than 100$ on a coin. Things have changed since that. Ebay has changed too. I tried it for selling in 2020, but that was a really bad experience: Several coins didn’t make it through the mail; or at least that was what the buyers said. It’s not easy to fix sales that go sideways when you’re on another continent. One guy returned a coin, for no reason. I soon found out that the reason was that he wanted to return an ugly cull of his own, while keeping the coin I sent him. All in all ebay was a bad experience in 2020, and the company did nothing to help me out. So I’m done with ebay. </p><p><br /></p><p>I find that I learn a tremendous lot by following serious dealers a auctioneers. The service and safety adds to the experience, and not having to deal with unfriendly crooks alone is worth the extra cost for me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It’s been said here many times before, but is is highly likely that those who make the best profit out of our collections, are the dealers and auction houses where we sell them. Dealers and collectors have shared the profits and losses in this way for generations. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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