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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3245325, member: 56859&quot;]I like everything you said Ken except for this one thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please <b>don&#039;t</b> <i>repeatedly</i> post eBay coins asking if they are real.&nbsp; And please <b>don&#039;t</b> make post after post asking us to look at a particular seller&#039;s listings.&nbsp; Instead, read the beginner threads we post repeatedly (like <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-coins-beginners%E2%80%99-faq-thread.324858/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-coins-beginners%E2%80%99-faq-thread.324858/">this thread</a>).&nbsp; If after reading all that stuff you still aren&#039;t comfortable, just buy from trusted sellers (&quot;know the seller or know the coin&quot;) until you are more confident in assessing an offering.&nbsp; What&#039;s the rush?&nbsp; Thousands more new listings will appear tomorrow, and the next day, and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Read the board, use CT&#039;s search function to learn more, and if you just can&#039;t help yourself, send a private message to a member or two asking for their opinion of the coin.&nbsp; The reason for this is that some people just can&#039;t refrain from using boards like this as an alternative to doing the work themselves.&nbsp; Some newcomers, regardless of how many times they are advised to &quot;know the coin or know the dealer&quot;, no matter how many times they are shown links and threads which answer their questions and provide sources for learning, just can&#039;t refrain from endless &quot;is this seller okay&quot;, &quot;is this coin okay&quot;, &quot;I bought this coin but now I think it may be fake&quot;, etc, never really contributing anything but instead perhaps hoping to score nice coins off someone else&#039;s knowledge, or maybe they are paralyzed by paranoia about possibly buying a fake (in which case this might be the wrong hobby for them).</p><p><br /></p><p>Members who use the board in this manner tend to get ignored after a while and CoinTalk has a very handy Ignore function if you want to hide those members.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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