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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 1526845, member: 13307&quot;]Tips:</p><p><br /></p><p>Be there early to preview everything.&nbsp; Even the books.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Bring a loupe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bring a price guide you consider reliable and reasonable.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Figure out what you&#039;re interested in.&nbsp; Figure out a price you&#039;d LIKE to pay and an absolute ceiling you&#039;d like to bid.&nbsp; Do NOT exceed your ceiling.&nbsp; It&#039;s really, really easy to get competitive and spend WAY too much on something you&#039;ll regret later.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the auction prices are going crazy, be patient and don&#039;t bid.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Remember looking through as much as you could in the preview?&nbsp; Most of the big bidders I&#039;ve seen tend to ignore the worn out books, bags of random coins, foreign coins...so that&#039;s where an opportunity lies.&nbsp; Bag of random tokens for $10?&nbsp; </p><p>Yep.&nbsp; Foreign silver at half the melt price, or way less?&nbsp; Yep.&nbsp; Random silver dollar for $45?&nbsp; Also seen that.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you plan on bidding, make SURE the auctioneer or one of their runners can SEE you.&nbsp; I&#039;ve lost books of Lincoln Cents because I was two feet away and he didn&#039;t see me or hear me saying yes (focused on two others.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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