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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 2528501, member: 73165&quot;]QFT.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a reason they&#039;re called price guides, and that&#039;s because they should be used as a guide.&nbsp; EBay, Heritage, PCGS auctions, Redbook, Greysheet, etc. all have their place (and you should use as many of them as is practical when making important buying decisions), but the bottom line is: how much do I want to pay for the coin that&#039;s in front of me?&nbsp; And none of those resources will tell you that.&nbsp; They only tell you what other people have paid for somewhat similar coins in the recent to not so recent past.&nbsp; (Edit: Or, sometimes, what dealers would like people to pay for somewhat similar coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been known to pay decent premiums for coins I wanted due to exceptional eye appeal or otherwise high quality.&nbsp; Likewise, I&#039;ve turned down a lot of perfectly nice and fairly priced coins simply because they didn&#039;t really speak to me.&nbsp; No price guide can tell you that.&nbsp; In fact, you should be looking for coins where the price guide doesn&#039;t apply, because, by definition, price guides are based on aggregate prices (which tend to reflect prices for &#039;average&#039; coins), and above average coins are the ones that will hold value the best, and, at least for me, are the ones that tend to be coins I still love months and years after I purchase them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll leave you with this thought... one of my favorite sayings is that I&#039;d rather buy a great coin for a fair price than a fair coin for a great price.&nbsp; Given a fixed budget, you&#039;ll end up with fewer coins, sure, but you&#039;ll probably like the ones you end up with a lot more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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