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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 3219959, member: 74282"]eBay ratings are meaningless. It's trivial for a fakeseller to work the system to get bad feedback removed and if the people buying their coins were savvy enough to recognize them as fakes they wouldn't be buying them in the first place, so most leave good feedback and move on, never realizing they bought a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a new collector, unless you're sticking to very low value coins, you're better off avoiding eBay if you want to avoid fakes. Come back to eBay later once you've handled plenty of coins authenticated by long time dealers and auction houses. You're much less likely to get burned if you learn enough about the coins to spot fake coins rather than playing the game of trying to guess whether a seller is good or not by looking at things other than their coins or hoping someone already spotted them and added their name to a list.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 3219959, member: 74282"]eBay ratings are meaningless. It's trivial for a fakeseller to work the system to get bad feedback removed and if the people buying their coins were savvy enough to recognize them as fakes they wouldn't be buying them in the first place, so most leave good feedback and move on, never realizing they bought a fake. As a new collector, unless you're sticking to very low value coins, you're better off avoiding eBay if you want to avoid fakes. Come back to eBay later once you've handled plenty of coins authenticated by long time dealers and auction houses. You're much less likely to get burned if you learn enough about the coins to spot fake coins rather than playing the game of trying to guess whether a seller is good or not by looking at things other than their coins or hoping someone already spotted them and added their name to a list.[/QUOTE]
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