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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3560924, member: 101855&quot;]High buyers&#039; fee kill the auctions for me. Yes, you can use your calculator and figure out what you want to bid, but there seem to be a few people who ignore the fee completely. They bid as if it&#039;s not even there. That can drive the prices through the roof. Add sales tax and shipping to that, and you can be 40% over the hammer price for U.S. purchases.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of these people who ignore he buyers&#039; fee seem to think that buying at auction &quot;protects&quot; them from over paying. They think because someone else bid X that they are okay with paying X + the next increment. They aren&#039;t. You can easily over pay at auction when you are up against people with more money than brains or restraint.</p><p><br /></p><p>I prefer buying coins from dealer directly and avoiding auctions. Not every coin that a dealer offers was bought by him at auction. Therefore it is not true that you are paying all the auction fees plus the dealer mark-up for all the coins they sell. Dealers, who stay in business, are constrained by the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some items simply don&#039;t show up at the shows. That&#039;s when you have to go the auction route.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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