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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8053791, member: 110350"]I have lengthy watch lists on both MA-Shops and V-Coins, and check them both regularly to look at the coins and see which ones are still available should I suddenly have enough money to splurge. Admittedly, a number of them are way out of my usual price range, and I put them on my watch list simply because I enjoy looking at them periodically, and imagining being able to buy them. Some have been on my watch lists for almost two years! </p><p><br /></p><p>I should note that V-Coins allows you to view only the coins on your watch list that are still available for sale, so you don't have to scroll through a bunch of sold coins. As far as I can tell, MA-Shops does not have that option: to avoid viewing sold coins, one has to delete them manually from the list. When I do go through that process, I leave the ones I bought myself, and delete only those bought by others.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, I check the new ancient coins on both sites at least once or twice every day, unless I'm really busy on something else. Although sometimes even when I am really busy, I check both of them as a procrastination device!</p><p><br /></p><p>I also check NumisBids -- on which I have a Want List, mostly of certain Roman Republican coins -- every few days, even though I rarely actually bid at auctions, and the only ones in which I've succeeded have been some Nomos Obolos auctions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8053791, member: 110350"]I have lengthy watch lists on both MA-Shops and V-Coins, and check them both regularly to look at the coins and see which ones are still available should I suddenly have enough money to splurge. Admittedly, a number of them are way out of my usual price range, and I put them on my watch list simply because I enjoy looking at them periodically, and imagining being able to buy them. Some have been on my watch lists for almost two years! I should note that V-Coins allows you to view only the coins on your watch list that are still available for sale, so you don't have to scroll through a bunch of sold coins. As far as I can tell, MA-Shops does not have that option: to avoid viewing sold coins, one has to delete them manually from the list. When I do go through that process, I leave the ones I bought myself, and delete only those bought by others. In addition, I check the new ancient coins on both sites at least once or twice every day, unless I'm really busy on something else. Although sometimes even when I am really busy, I check both of them as a procrastination device! I also check NumisBids -- on which I have a Want List, mostly of certain Roman Republican coins -- every few days, even though I rarely actually bid at auctions, and the only ones in which I've succeeded have been some Nomos Obolos auctions.[/QUOTE]
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