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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Coinman_Ben, post: 652122, member: 9923&quot;]in my opinion, this is an example, not to stay away from ebay, but to be careful on ebay and to only stay away from ebay if you don&#039;t know the warning signs of a fishy or &quot;too good to be true&quot; deal.&nbsp; In other words, you have to know exactly what you&#039;ll be getting before bidding on it, and stay away from the listings with a stock photo that doesn&#039;t say anything about the exact coins you&#039;ll be getting.&nbsp; But having said this, if you&#039;re considering bidding on a roll of Mercury dimes, for example, and all you see is a picture of a roll of dimes, as long as it looks like a real photo and not a stock photo, than it&#039;s probably ok to bid as long as the seller has adequately described what you&#039;ll be getting.&nbsp; Things to look for in the description would be the average condition of the coins, even if it&#039;s a generality such as &quot;average circulated&quot;.&nbsp; If the seller doesn&#039;t have an adequate description except for the item title, it&#039;s still ok to bid as long as the item title is clear and the picture given is an actual picture the seller took and not a stock photo, which it&#039;s very easy (most of the time) to tell a stock photo apart from a photo the seller actually took because the stock photo will have more of a professional look to it than a photo actually taken by the seller.&nbsp; If you do bid on a roll of Mercury dimes on ebay, as long as it meets the bare minimum requirements (which is a real photo of the coins you&#039;ll actually be getting, even if they&#039;re still in the roll when photographed), my rule of thumb for bidding is to never bid more than 10% to 20% over melt value for rolls of mercury dimes or any other silver coinage I happen to want to get on ebay, other than that, I only use ebay for coin collecting supplies such as 2x2s and staples for the stapler I have for the 2x2s.</p><p><br /></p><p>My point in saying all this is that you should be very careful and to make sure you know what you are buying before you buy it, especially on ebay where there are people who want to rip you off.&nbsp; The reason some ebay rip people off like that is to spread their collection thin so they can overcome those expensive selling fees, so they draw people to their lots using words like &quot;unsearched&quot; to create a sense of mystery even if they&#039;ve obviously been cherry-picked so they can sell more lots of coins for more money.&nbsp; My advice is to stay away from those lots of &quot;unsearched&quot; coins on ebay, and if you want unsearched coins, it&#039;d be better to get rolls from the bank for roll seaching than to get &quot;unsearched&quot; coins on ebay because they really aren&#039;t unsearched, that&#039;s just a ploy that sellers use to sell their collection to more people and all that does is spread their collection thin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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