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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 3362949, member: 13650&quot;]I was gonna say I wouldn&#039;t call it a mess but as I was typing....&nbsp; I came to agree with you.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is a mess.&nbsp;&nbsp; The only way to view it is to search for an item and then go up to the top and click on sort.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sort either by lowest to highest price or highest to lowest.&nbsp; &nbsp; Then you can usually scroll through a page of moon money coins to get to the decent quality,&nbsp; &quot;common man&quot; stuff that&#039;ll be nicer than the next 15 pages.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; There are many, many intricacies that go into pricing on some coins.&nbsp; CAC stickers inflate everything.&nbsp;&nbsp; To me, having ebay, you have a 24/7/365 global yard sale at your finger tips that you can scroll through in your PJs.&nbsp; &nbsp; Most stuff I want can ONLY be found on there.&nbsp; There&#039;s almost no point for me to go to the local shows anymore because it&#039;s highly unlikely what I want is there.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe 1 or 2 examples if lucky....&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; This doesn&#039;t mean that everybody knows how to price things on ebay or that it&#039;s all quality stuff either.&nbsp; Even graded stuff.&nbsp; &nbsp; Once you look at thousands and thousands of coins over a period of years,&nbsp; eventually you notice everything and it takes a lot more to impress you.&nbsp; You start to realize how much junk is actually thrown on ebay.&nbsp; I saw a dime that somebody wanted $500 for that shouldve been melted decades ago.&nbsp; &nbsp; It was garbage.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; There are many problem coins in slabs with clean grades.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Many coins have been in slabs a long time and improperly stored.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some silver coins have developed black spots that can turn a clean mint state grade into a coin nobody wants and nobody wants to send to NCS to get cleaned up due to cost.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve been seeking a specific coin for a while and I went to a local dealer to try there.&nbsp;&nbsp; They had two examples.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most people feel NGCs price guide is &quot;way too high.&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, the dealer was asking north of NGCs price guide on both examples.&nbsp;&nbsp; One had black spots on obverse.&nbsp;&nbsp; The other wasn&#039;t that attractive but got a CAC sticker so it was priced well above NGC&#039;s price guide.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most like to acquire coins at least somewhat below the online prices guides if not well below.&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, let me tell you.&nbsp; Depending on what you&#039;re looking for that may or may not work.&nbsp;&nbsp; On ebay there&#039;s a $200 spread for the same coin in the same grade I&#039;ve been looking at and most are right around NGC&#039;s list price.&nbsp; They&#039;re also higher quality.&nbsp;&nbsp; One is $100 below and it&#039;s nice.&nbsp; But I had to look at pages of them to find that one.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; IMO, every coin collector should be banned from ebay for a period of 5 to 10 years.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then if they&#039;re still interested and they&#039;ve been around the block a few times, THEN go to ebay and see what you think.&nbsp; &nbsp; There&#039;s quality stuff mixed in with a bunch of junk and if you can&#039;t weed it out, you&#039;re gonna get screwed.&nbsp; And that&#039;s just graded material.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you&#039;re only looking at loose coins, then it really becomes a mine field.&nbsp;&nbsp; You better be able to identify cleaned coins because most are!&nbsp;&nbsp; Or they&#039;ve been re-toned to hide cleaning.&nbsp; OR they&#039;re fake to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you&#039;re just dinkin around purchasing $5 to $10 coins to enjoy, go for it.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you&#039;re looking to work on something higher end and looking to drop serious cash, then knowledge and experience matters.&nbsp; You can&#039;t obtain this over night.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even seasoned collectors get stung once in a while.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Ebay can be used if you know what you&#039;re doing or are just casually collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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