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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3088065, member: 19463&quot;]I most certainly do not expect any protection or anything from CT management but I do feel a bit of such protection from CT.&nbsp; I might have coins to sell or want to buy and would not consider dealing with a complete stranger but I have &#039;known&#039; some of the CT regulars through their posts for several years.&nbsp; I have never laid eyes on Bing or TIF or Randy or Medoraman or Zumbly or several others here but have read enough of their posts to feel comfortable with them.&nbsp; These are not strangers.&nbsp; At any given moment each of us may have a coin or two that we can spare but I am not interested in listing mine for open sale to just anyone who might respond to an ad so I miss sales.&nbsp; Similarly, I don&#039;t buy from just anyone who has a coin. The danger here is not CT ad space but dealing with strangers.&nbsp; I&#039;m much more inclined to send money/coins to anyone on my list above than to some big name four letter word European auction house that has cheated me before.&nbsp; I wish there were a way for those of us in the CT family to know what we each have to spare so we might find trades without openly advertising that exposes us to the people GDJMSP knows to be a major part of Coin Talk reality.&nbsp; There is not.&nbsp; While I appreciate CT as a second rate coin club substitute, I really do wish we could all meet in person and do our trading in the old fashioned way.&nbsp; We can&#039;t.&nbsp; The best we can do is pay a dealer to buy and sell on our behalf and assume certain risks that are part of his cost of doing business or stick to the people we know one way or another from past experience.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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