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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2891731, member: 76863&quot;]There certainly is a difference and I&#039;m speaking more in general terms than this particular instance.&nbsp; That said I also think people severely under estimate peoples ability.&nbsp; If it&#039;s a snake oil salesman in a coin shop or a coin show I would agree, but it was online.&nbsp; Being online means people can look up all sorts of things in a matter of minutes.&nbsp; I highly doubt who ever won that just decided they were going to get into coins and were going to start at that price level.&nbsp; Far more likely someone got tempted to take a shot hoping to make money if it grades as a proof or a dcam and from the final price I am thinking they thought dcam. </p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone always assumes it&#039;s someone helpless being taken advantage of but 99 percent of collectors don&#039;t start with four figure purchases and there are a lot more people taking risks on things like that hoping to make some money than most realize.&nbsp; That&#039;s why it keeps working, it&#039;s almost never because someone decided to dabble in a four figure coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless though what&#039;s said on a 2x2 should be meaningless to buyers.&nbsp; That&#039;s a grade from someone trying to make money.&nbsp; Only thing a buyer should be concerned with is the price and if they agree that is what it is.&nbsp; I&#039;ve also advocated for a long time stick to slabbed coins on eBay and online for numismatic valued ones and especially for four figure coins. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Except legit graded coins are in slabs from a TPG, not handwritten on 2x2 by someone who is trying to make money off the sale of them.&nbsp;&nbsp; TPGs wouldn&#039;t have succeeded and continue to thrive and grow if those grades were meaningful.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And every person who bought that phone new exactly what they were doing.&nbsp; That&#039;s also a bad comparison since phones are peoples lifeblood now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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