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<p>[QUOTE="Vegas Vic, post: 2023179, member: 58810"]Be careful. Speaking about new methods and challenging traditional ideas is dangerous on this forum. Some here are incapable of understanding the concept that technology can and will change the market even as they personally write about all the snipes they set up on eBay themselves and what good deals they have gotten. Of course you have to pay promptly for your purchases unless the world simply revolves around you, and not the other way around. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1. I think that you should address head on what you disagree with in a post instead of making casual references with personal insults. You clearly disagree with a different poster then you are responding to yet instead of using ideas you use insults to debate and discuss. Not a mature way to argue points. I would argue that this behavior makes you the troll. </p><p><br /></p><p>2. The entire us market for higher end coins is totally at the mercy of tpg's . Unless you are going to different shows that I do (actually a real possibility) you will see that the vast majority of higher end material is slabbed and priced relative to the grade on the slab. I have yet to see a catalog from a serious auction house with more then a handful of raw us coins. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Could not agree more. Many people start collecting from the bottom up. How badly can you be taken advantage of when buying a ten dollar coin? Very few people want to collect books as coin collectors. Starting with cheap coins and looking at them is one of the best suggestions I have read here. And using the internet as a learning tool is a great concept.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vegas Vic, post: 2023179, member: 58810"]Be careful. Speaking about new methods and challenging traditional ideas is dangerous on this forum. Some here are incapable of understanding the concept that technology can and will change the market even as they personally write about all the snipes they set up on eBay themselves and what good deals they have gotten. Of course you have to pay promptly for your purchases unless the world simply revolves around you, and not the other way around. 1. I think that you should address head on what you disagree with in a post instead of making casual references with personal insults. You clearly disagree with a different poster then you are responding to yet instead of using ideas you use insults to debate and discuss. Not a mature way to argue points. I would argue that this behavior makes you the troll. 2. The entire us market for higher end coins is totally at the mercy of tpg's . Unless you are going to different shows that I do (actually a real possibility) you will see that the vast majority of higher end material is slabbed and priced relative to the grade on the slab. I have yet to see a catalog from a serious auction house with more then a handful of raw us coins. Could not agree more. Many people start collecting from the bottom up. How badly can you be taken advantage of when buying a ten dollar coin? Very few people want to collect books as coin collectors. Starting with cheap coins and looking at them is one of the best suggestions I have read here. And using the internet as a learning tool is a great concept.[/QUOTE]
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