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<p>[QUOTE="Farstaff, post: 1078583, member: 2344"]I have purchased quite a few graded coins from HA, David Lawrence and a couple from TT when I had the resources to purchase in the past. (currently unemployed) But since I do enjoy my coin collecting habit :yes: I am now limited to most of my purchases from Ebay.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the last few months I had to sell some of my higher price coins because of my current situation and after contacting a couple of online auction house who indicated to me that they were not really interested in selling them for me because of the small amount I went with the EBay route. (By the way, most of these coins where brought from these auction houses.) </p><p><br /></p><p>It is my opinion and from my experience selling these coins on Ebay resulted in a lower price than my purchased price from either HA, TT and DL. Perhaps, I paid too much for them to begin with but I can assure you before any coin purchase I do research using HA, TT, Grey sheet and the NumisMedia FMV Price Guide and thought I paid the correct price. </p><p> </p><p>In my opinion there are difference type of collectors within this discussion, in that some are in the position to obtain higher graded coins and some are not. I believe everyone is correct from their perspective and there is no single correct way of determining where to purchase your coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ebay has provides me as a collector with very limited resources a way to continue with collecting, by allowing me to purchase some raw coins and lower graded coins that I don't normally see available at HA, TT or DL at a lower price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Farstaff, post: 1078583, member: 2344"]I have purchased quite a few graded coins from HA, David Lawrence and a couple from TT when I had the resources to purchase in the past. (currently unemployed) But since I do enjoy my coin collecting habit :yes: I am now limited to most of my purchases from Ebay. In the last few months I had to sell some of my higher price coins because of my current situation and after contacting a couple of online auction house who indicated to me that they were not really interested in selling them for me because of the small amount I went with the EBay route. (By the way, most of these coins where brought from these auction houses.) It is my opinion and from my experience selling these coins on Ebay resulted in a lower price than my purchased price from either HA, TT and DL. Perhaps, I paid too much for them to begin with but I can assure you before any coin purchase I do research using HA, TT, Grey sheet and the NumisMedia FMV Price Guide and thought I paid the correct price. In my opinion there are difference type of collectors within this discussion, in that some are in the position to obtain higher graded coins and some are not. I believe everyone is correct from their perspective and there is no single correct way of determining where to purchase your coins. Ebay has provides me as a collector with very limited resources a way to continue with collecting, by allowing me to purchase some raw coins and lower graded coins that I don't normally see available at HA, TT or DL at a lower price.[/QUOTE]
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