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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2139348, member: 112&quot;]What you learned is good to know, and it didn&#039;t cost you much, only about $12 or so. And there is much more you will learn as a result of your future experiences. But that&#039;s what&#039;s called learning the hard way. So what you are doing by asking for constructive help, that&#039;s a good thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Feedback - you said you can&#039;t always depend on feedback. I would alter that comment and say you can&#039;t ever depend on feedback. Why not ? Because you don&#039;t know who left it. The person or persons leaving the feedback may not a thing about coins, or very little. Ebay is full of people like that. many are beginners just starting out like you are, and quite frankly they don&#039;t if they got a good deal or not. They may well have paid, and often do pay, way more than an item is worth. Or they may think the item fits the description of what they bought when it doesn&#039;t fit that description at all. A lot of people on ebay don&#039;t know what they are looking at when they hold it in their hand and look at it. So can feedback have any meaning, be worth anything ? Rather obviously it can&#039;t. In fact it can even be harmful to future buyers because it is often misleading.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ebay is kind of like the biggest swap meet or flea market in the world. You have all kinds of people offering to sell all kinds of things to anybody they can entice into buying them. And some of the sellers on ebay are good people, selling good things for fair prices. But they are far, far, outnumbered by others who are offering to sell things that they hope don&#039;t have any idea of what they are buying. Because if they did, they&#039;d never buy it.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what you should have learned is that - for people like you, beginners who are trying to learn or just want to participate in the hobby - ebay can be a very dangerous place. So it would be wise to exercise a good deal of caution.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, it is obvious that is what you are trying to do by asking for help. That is what you should do, I commend you for it. So where do you go from here ? I&#039;d say the first step is to continue what you are doing in this thread. When you see something on ebay that you like, instead of buying it, come here and post about it, ask questions. And bit by bit you will learn. The best lesson you can ever learn is that the time to ask questions is before you buy something - not after you buy something. </p><p><br /></p><p>And if you ask you&#039;ll get answers. And you&#039;ll get a mix of answers, some will say yeah that&#039;s a good buy, others will say no way, run away do not walk. So how do you know which ones to listen to and which not ? You&#039;ll learn that too, but it&#039;ll take a little time and some reading to find out who knows what they are talking about and who only thinks they know what they are talking about. But you&#039;ll learn <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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