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<p>[QUOTE="Bazz, post: 717533, member: 17274"]Sholom is right. There is plenty of good with the bad on a place like ebay. I just think that the nature of an open marketplace with not a lot, if any, regulation is not conducive to a hobby like coin collecting. There are just too many sidewinders in that marketplace and coin collecting depends on such precise grading among other things. </p><p> </p><p>Even if you get a good person that makes a mistake as has been described in a couple of posts above you have to go through the process and sometimes the expense of mailing a coin back. And this is what the bad guys are counting on at least with the less expensive coins, that you don't feel it's worth it to mail something back and just move on. With the more expensive items they are just hoping whomever is collecting that coin is not educated or observant enough to notice that they are being duped.</p><p> </p><p>Still I believe having faith in a site like EBAY is justified when you only deal with the good guys you know that are doing business on the site. God help you if you stray from that list though. Consequently I don't buy coins from that site anymore.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bazz, post: 717533, member: 17274"]Sholom is right. There is plenty of good with the bad on a place like ebay. I just think that the nature of an open marketplace with not a lot, if any, regulation is not conducive to a hobby like coin collecting. There are just too many sidewinders in that marketplace and coin collecting depends on such precise grading among other things. Even if you get a good person that makes a mistake as has been described in a couple of posts above you have to go through the process and sometimes the expense of mailing a coin back. And this is what the bad guys are counting on at least with the less expensive coins, that you don't feel it's worth it to mail something back and just move on. With the more expensive items they are just hoping whomever is collecting that coin is not educated or observant enough to notice that they are being duped. Still I believe having faith in a site like EBAY is justified when you only deal with the good guys you know that are doing business on the site. God help you if you stray from that list though. Consequently I don't buy coins from that site anymore.[/QUOTE]
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