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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 2330833, member: 29751&quot;]As a few others have clarified, the term &quot;<b>sight unseen</b>&quot; to most people in this hobby means, &quot;<b>not seen in person</b>&quot;.&nbsp; The vast majority of my numismatic purchases are &quot;sight unseen&quot; in this sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, to that end, I have not bought anything numismatic without having at least seen decent pictures before purchasing.&nbsp; I will entertain purchasing coins &quot;on approval&quot; when only a text description of the coin is given, but the seller sends the coin to me for review<b> before</b> I purchase.&nbsp; In those cases, I only deal with trusted dealers, and I&#039;m happy to cover the shipping both ways for such reviews (I&#039;m batting around 60-70% on keeping coins I get this way, but have only reviewed about a dozen over the years).</p><p><br /></p><p>Buying from pictures only is much more successful for me.&nbsp; I have had enough years interpreting photos that I rarely have problems.&nbsp; I have only sent back 2 coins purchased on eBay (of more than 500 purchased), both because they had problems that were not shown in the pictures.&nbsp; I have never even thought about wishing to return a coin purchased from Heritage, Stacks, or other online auction sites.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am a bit annoyed by some of the &quot;old fashioned&quot; dealers who don&#039;t provide pictures, at least for the higher dollar items on their sales lists.&nbsp; There are <u><b>so</b></u> many affordable and reasonably easy ways of photographing coins that there really is no excuse for not offering photos or at least being willing to take some if requested.&nbsp; It&#039;s 2016 -- it&#039;s not as if dealers have to get the pictures &quot;developed&quot; and snail mail them to me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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