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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 1248500, member: 24544&quot;]I agree wholeheartly with this statement.&nbsp; If it&#039;s common stuff then you are likely better off going to a dealer and building a relationship.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>On the other, if you are collecting in the more obscure area&#039;s then ebay is an absolute treasure trove.&nbsp; I collect large cents, and ebay is fantastic.&nbsp; I can go to a local 60 table show and get a chance to see maybe 2-3 dealers with an decent inventory.&nbsp; On the other hand I can look through 1500 large cents a week on ebay.&nbsp; Once you get into rare varieties, or rare die states, good luck even finding a dealer with it.&nbsp; On the other hand, I find 3-4 R6+ die state late date large cents a week on ebay and most of the time the seller does not realize what they have.&nbsp; So I can pick them up much cheaper on ebay when I find them then I could even if I found a dealer with them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ebay is totally buyer beware, with a lot of really bad deals.&nbsp; On the other hand, if you specialize and know what to look for it can be an absolute treasure.&nbsp; For instance, in the last 3 months I have found 4 1845 n7 large cents on ebay, an R5 coin which I have not seen in any dealers inventory going to 3 Baltimore shows, and I cherry picked all of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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