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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 3327834, member: 42034&quot;]One issue is the amount of time required to find decent buys.&nbsp; About a week ago, either here or on &quot;Coin Community&quot; there was an excellent review article posted about counterfeits on Ebay.&nbsp; Apparently Ebay is doing nothing or very little to remove listings of the counterfeits.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are areas of coinage where I feel a little competent to detect counterfeits.&nbsp; Now I could carefully look thru Ebay listings but I&#039;ll bet that in the next 5 years I won&#039;t find a single listing, at any price of a coin that I can use.</p><p><br /></p><p>For more common US coins (since this is a US thread), Great Collections seems to offer a reliable protected venue that Ebay can&#039;t match.&nbsp; Also Ebay uses the seller rep as a selling point.&nbsp; Thus you&#039;ll only be buying coins from dealers who picked up pieces from somewhere and are reselling them at a profit.&nbsp; You&#039;ll rarely see coins from an original collector who, after 20 years decided to sell his collection*.&nbsp; That&#039;s because he&#039;s not a dealer so he has a EBay Seller&#039;s reputation of 0.&nbsp; Hence he&#039;ll sell his long time collection on a regular site like GC, or Stacks, or Heritage, or Goldbergs, or Sedwicks.</p><p><br /></p><p>For really good buys of usually lower end stuff you could also join local coin clubs where some of the older members sometimes sell stuff at or below melt value.</p><p><br /></p><p>*There are the ubiquitous [and amusing] EBay listings from people who&#039;ve claimed to have inherited coins or had legacies donated to them.&nbsp; They claim not to know anything about the coins so they&#039;re posting early US stuff at 1/50th the proper value.&nbsp; I&#039;d suggest avoiding those EBay listings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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