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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8308384, member: 19463&quot;]In the interest of experiencing worthwhile learning experiences, lets recap three rules:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Always deal with &#039;reputable&#039; sellers - not just for the time being but as a life long experience.&nbsp; Send some nice guy&#039;s kids to college; let the disreputable crowd take out student loans. </p><p><br /></p><p>2. Never post to any online resource about a coin of interest to you while it is not yet in your hands.&nbsp; This rule has two benefits.&nbsp; First, it prevents someone else seeing that it is an interesting coin and bidding/buying it.&nbsp; Second you avoid wrongly accusing someone else who does buy the coin of &#039;stealing&#039; it when they may have been watching the coin longer than you have.&nbsp; I don&#039;t recommend posting about a lot even after you paid for it because a less than &#039;reputable&#039; sellers might decide to sell it for more to someone who contacted him after you paid.&nbsp; This happened to me several times in the last decades including two separate incidents in 2016 when the seller claimed the lot was sent and lost in the mail.&nbsp; One they refunded.&nbsp; One not.&nbsp; BTW, 2016 was the last time I have had any contact with this seller and any of his countrymen.&nbsp; Whether he is a crook or his country has &#039;problems&#039; with mail makes no difference anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; The time to buy a coin is the first second you see what you want.&nbsp; If you have doubts about the thing, buying it is likely a mistake.&nbsp; I have posted a &#039;fixed price&#039; coin here that I had ordered and paid via Paypal within thirty seconds.&nbsp; I have later heard from several people who said they would have bought it but I got there first.&nbsp; If you find a coin worthwhile, consider the possibility someone else might, too.&nbsp; I&#039;m not suggesting buying wildly and paying ridiculous prices for just any old coin but there are times that you need to act or blame no one but yourself when the coin finds another home.&nbsp; I fail to see anything special about the coin in question here but I am no specialist/expert in that period.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>4. (a bonus) Learn from mistakes.&nbsp; Make a different one each time rather than repeating behaviors that did you poorly in the past.&nbsp; There are certainly enough mistakes available that we do not need to repeat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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