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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brian73, post: 286970, member: 10552&quot;]<b>Feedback, Feedback, Feedback, Feedback!!!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Rule Number 1: look at a sellers feedback</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Rule Number 2: look at rule number 1</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>From my experience, a feedback of over 1000 and 100% is enough for me to pay the seller by cash, well not really, but I have not hesistations when I see a seller with this kind of feedback which of course is very rare, but I&#039;ve seen it before and I will pay a small premium over other sellers to purchase from someone with a superstar feedback record like that.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If someone has a feeback of 10 or 15 and the coin is not slabbed then forget it I will look elsewhere even if the record is 100%.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Feedback of 98% might seem strong, but everything is relative and I would say that 75% of all ebay sellers have a feedback rating of 99% or better, so if a seller&#039;s feedback is not 99% or more I&#039;m looking elsewhere.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If a seller has a negative or a couple of negatives I will definitely scroll down and see what the comments were.&nbsp;&nbsp; If they have 1 negative for every 200 postives then I could careless, but if I see something like 2 negatives and only 30 positives then I&#039;m looking elsewhere.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I guess it also depends on what you are buying because if it is something like a 1999 or 2000 proof set that trades like a commodity because there are so many then you have more of a luxury of who you buy from and if it is something that there is only one of on ebay or just a few then you have to be willing to take whatever the seller throws you in terms of their feedback, etc...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for paypal, I have found a few sellers who only take checks to have cheaper buy it now prices which is probably possible because they don&#039;t incur the paypal fees, but once again I don&#039;t mind paying by a check as long as the feedback is there.&nbsp; I always keep under $500 in my paypal account in case it was hacked into and the checking account it is linked to is also a checking account just for my online stuff so if my password or username is ever compromised I wouldn&#039;t lose that much.&nbsp; I would probably be adimant of only using paypal only if my purchase was above $1000, but I never spent that much anyways so it hasn&#039;t been an issue so far anyways.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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