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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 26403277, member: 26302"]Regarding trash, I agree with you. However, you can minimize this with where you shop. Everyone has different life circumstance, (I am with [USER=92655]@Randy Abercrombie[/USER] where I never dreamed of owning old US gold, yet now I have a whole box), but Ebay has simply become a garbage pit for most offerings. If not trying to score that 1 in a thousand deal, I simply look at offerings at better auction houses and ignore Ebay and similar selling locations. </p><p><br /></p><p>Besides time, another huge issue with looking at Ebay is training. If you see fakes over and over your eye will become desensitized to them. I tell people my eye knows long before my brain when something is wrong. My eye stops and then my brain figures out why the coin is fake. This is because I have seen many, many examples of authentic ones. If I start looking at fakes over and over my eye no longer can tell the difference.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 26403277, member: 26302"]Regarding trash, I agree with you. However, you can minimize this with where you shop. Everyone has different life circumstance, (I am with [USER=92655]@Randy Abercrombie[/USER] where I never dreamed of owning old US gold, yet now I have a whole box), but Ebay has simply become a garbage pit for most offerings. If not trying to score that 1 in a thousand deal, I simply look at offerings at better auction houses and ignore Ebay and similar selling locations. Besides time, another huge issue with looking at Ebay is training. If you see fakes over and over your eye will become desensitized to them. I tell people my eye knows long before my brain when something is wrong. My eye stops and then my brain figures out why the coin is fake. This is because I have seen many, many examples of authentic ones. If I start looking at fakes over and over my eye no longer can tell the difference.[/QUOTE]
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