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<p>[QUOTE="hoth2, post: 7878604, member: 74431"]I'm a low-budget collector... I've yet to pay more than about ninety dollars for a coin. It was my birthday a couple weeks ago though and I was like.. OK.. I'm going to bid uncomfortably high on a couple coins, and I did--like $120ish each for two coins (including the auction fee and what I assumed shipping would be, more or less). </p><p><br /></p><p>Last night I finally looked up what shipping was (for why I didn't look it us BEFORE bidding, see the title of this thread) and shipping was THIRTY DOLLARS. I know for some folks that's a rounding error but for my coin budget that's huge. I spent the morning checking in, hoping to get out-bid, on tenterhooks, already in my head drafting an explanation to my wife--not just for the thirty dollars but for the whole three-hundred dollar shebang. I only got outbid in the last seconds of each auction, and one of them only barely.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anybody else here dummies? How do you cope?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hoth2, post: 7878604, member: 74431"]I'm a low-budget collector... I've yet to pay more than about ninety dollars for a coin. It was my birthday a couple weeks ago though and I was like.. OK.. I'm going to bid uncomfortably high on a couple coins, and I did--like $120ish each for two coins (including the auction fee and what I assumed shipping would be, more or less). Last night I finally looked up what shipping was (for why I didn't look it us BEFORE bidding, see the title of this thread) and shipping was THIRTY DOLLARS. I know for some folks that's a rounding error but for my coin budget that's huge. I spent the morning checking in, hoping to get out-bid, on tenterhooks, already in my head drafting an explanation to my wife--not just for the thirty dollars but for the whole three-hundred dollar shebang. I only got outbid in the last seconds of each auction, and one of them only barely. Anybody else here dummies? How do you cope?[/QUOTE]
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