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<p>[QUOTE="pk_boomer, post: 1110614, member: 23933"]I only collect for myself, I have no intention of ever selling. And my collection is by no means a high-grade collection - I only try to complete sets, not concerning myself with grade at all. I mean, sure, I may have been scammed into buying a counterfeit coin for all I know. But 1) that wouldn't really concern me too much anyway, since my collecting is just a hobby for me, not an investment, and 2) it's pretty unlikely that anybody would bother to make a low-grade common date coin to gyp me out of 10 bucks!</p><p><br /></p><p>If sometime in the future I decided to acquire a higher-grade collection, I probably wouldn't use eBay at all. I just wouldn't feel comfortable using eBay to buy anything of real value as an investment. And I'm not necessarily detracting from eBay by saying this - my only reason for not trusting eBay is my inexperience.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I guess what I'm saying is that for a collector like me (inexperienced but learning), for my purposes (low-grade, low cost, common filler coins), eBay can be perfectly fine. For me it's just the fun of trying to find a good deal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="pk_boomer, post: 1110614, member: 23933"]I only collect for myself, I have no intention of ever selling. And my collection is by no means a high-grade collection - I only try to complete sets, not concerning myself with grade at all. I mean, sure, I may have been scammed into buying a counterfeit coin for all I know. But 1) that wouldn't really concern me too much anyway, since my collecting is just a hobby for me, not an investment, and 2) it's pretty unlikely that anybody would bother to make a low-grade common date coin to gyp me out of 10 bucks! If sometime in the future I decided to acquire a higher-grade collection, I probably wouldn't use eBay at all. I just wouldn't feel comfortable using eBay to buy anything of real value as an investment. And I'm not necessarily detracting from eBay by saying this - my only reason for not trusting eBay is my inexperience. So I guess what I'm saying is that for a collector like me (inexperienced but learning), for my purposes (low-grade, low cost, common filler coins), eBay can be perfectly fine. For me it's just the fun of trying to find a good deal.[/QUOTE]
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