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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2481113, member: 76863"]This. Those sellers greatest asset is the ego of people that think they know better than everyone else. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed. However there is a difference between buying in person and buying online. Grading from internet pictures is a skill on it's own learning how to adjust the image in your head from how it was taken and whether it was a scan or real picture ect. We see time and time again people coming to concrete grading decisions from picture issues not coin issues. A lot of people have trouble spotting the changes the picture caused to occur on the coin. Someone whose really good with a camera could make you think a coin was anywhere from a 62-67ish and probably even convince you it could be a cam or dcam proof even though its ms if they were setting things up in various ways.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2481113, member: 76863"]This. Those sellers greatest asset is the ego of people that think they know better than everyone else. Agreed. However there is a difference between buying in person and buying online. Grading from internet pictures is a skill on it's own learning how to adjust the image in your head from how it was taken and whether it was a scan or real picture ect. We see time and time again people coming to concrete grading decisions from picture issues not coin issues. A lot of people have trouble spotting the changes the picture caused to occur on the coin. Someone whose really good with a camera could make you think a coin was anywhere from a 62-67ish and probably even convince you it could be a cam or dcam proof even though its ms if they were setting things up in various ways.[/QUOTE]
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