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<p>[QUOTE="Eduard, post: 3559992, member: 8959"]Costs associated with auctions, including buyers commission, postage etc do not irritate. The information is available, you just have to look for it. </p><p><br /></p><p>What really irritates me are the quality of the pictures and the lot descriptions: There are major auction houses in EU which offer pictures which sometimes look like cartoons, full of glare, and worse of all, pictures which are somehow manipulated sop that the true color/toning is not evident. The big disappointment then comes when you get the coin in hand and the beautiful toning you saw in the picture which you found so attractive is really a pastel white, totally lifeless surface.....</p><p>I find this totally deceptive and this is the reason why at some auction houses I will no longer buy unless I am able to attend in person or have somebody look at the coin in person[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Eduard, post: 3559992, member: 8959"]Costs associated with auctions, including buyers commission, postage etc do not irritate. The information is available, you just have to look for it. What really irritates me are the quality of the pictures and the lot descriptions: There are major auction houses in EU which offer pictures which sometimes look like cartoons, full of glare, and worse of all, pictures which are somehow manipulated sop that the true color/toning is not evident. The big disappointment then comes when you get the coin in hand and the beautiful toning you saw in the picture which you found so attractive is really a pastel white, totally lifeless surface..... I find this totally deceptive and this is the reason why at some auction houses I will no longer buy unless I am able to attend in person or have somebody look at the coin in person[/QUOTE]
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