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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CADMANDAN, post: 1466406, member: 38011&quot;]<b>Oh the pain of learning too late.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>As much as I&#039;m lloving learning about all these &quot;new&quot; coins(new to me anyways), I stumbled into this hobby and just as quckly stumbled into the coin vault shows. I thought I was learning so much about what the coins histories and such were all about and got so caught up in the whole presentation that I had puchased so much stuff before I remembered what my Dear old Dad told me long ago.&nbsp; &quot;don&#039;t ever take the word of the guys selling you the items about what&nbsp; its really worth&quot;. Do your homework and know what its worth before making a purchase. </p><p>Sorry, Dad.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure thats not the only lesson I&#039;ve forgotten-just hope that the ones I do forget only cost me money.</p><p>Ok, now that I&#039;m getting the hard lessons of life that were allready supposed to have been learned, Thanks to you all for setting me straight about the coin shows.&nbsp; I&#039;ve heard it a couple times at the local shows when asked what I&#039;ve been collecting,and I&#039;ll tell them that I&#039;ve bought a bunch of stuff from the TV and I&#039;ll get the reaction that you all have just made while reading this and if you hear it once or twice its not to hard to justfy that they just want me to spend my money there instead but after hearing it over and over and over from just as many different dealers and customers in earshot of the conversation it becomes much harder to&nbsp; not take notice of the big picture.</p><p>&nbsp;Now having been hit over the head with reality, usually the only way I&#039;m motivated enough to change my behavior or admit to being ingorant I get it. However(as a collective groan is heard throughout the internet coinworld, oh no he&#039;s not going to defend it now) All though I admit to overpaying&nbsp; for most of my purchaseing on the the coin vault I do have out my red book so I would have a reasonable idea of what I was or wasn&#039;t getting. And most of the time they were within 10% of what the book says.&nbsp; Of course every single purchase I&#039;ve made at a coin show,up to now, have been less than what it shows in the redbook.</p><p>So allthough continue to watch the shows (I do feel like I&#039;m gaining knowledge about different coins) I am forwarned that any purchase made can likely be made at my local shows at a better price. I&#039;m going to a local one today to look at how badly I got snookered by those &quot;hockey pucks&quot; in ms 70 grade.&nbsp; Another thing learned here today is that&nbsp; &quot;buying graded bullion coins is a bad idea&quot;. I fear another expensive lesson learned too late.(2011 5 piece set ms 70 $2500).</p><p>Well , I&#039;m off like a prom dress to go see how much I got plundered. Thanks again coin talk friends, Man learing is expensive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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