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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2749431, member: 112&quot;]The best way to find hard to find coins, is to have dealers look for them for you. They will see and hear about a hundred, a thousand, times as many coins as you can find.</p><p><br /></p><p>On another note, here&#039;s the thing with dealers, and it&#039;s something that few seem to realize. A dealer&#039;s reputation is usually based on word of mouth regarding his transactions with others. And if you do enough business somebody is going to be unhappy with a transaction or two, or three, or whatever. And as a general rule you won&#039;t hear much about the transactions where people end up being happy, but you&#039;ll hear a ton about the ones that are unhappy. </p><p><br /></p><p>It also important to always remember that <u>who</u> you hear things from is more important than <u>what</u> you hear from them. Or put another way, you always have to consider the source. I say that because many times, I might even say most of the time, when people buy a coin and they are unhappy with it, their unhappiness is a direct result of their own lack of knowledge. So while they might think they got &quot;screwed&quot; on a deal, they didn&#039;t. They were treated fairly and got exactly what they paid for.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course the opposite is true, and for the same reason. You may hear from a thousand sources that - hey that dealer is great ! But in reality he&#039;s one the worst scammers there is.</p><p><br /></p><p>This why feedback on sites like ebay is worse than worthless, it can even be harmful. You don&#039;t anything about the people leaving that feedback. They could honestly be thinking they are getting the deal of the century, and the whole time they are getting ripped off or taken advantage of left and right - because they don&#039;t know anything about coins. A seller&#039;s feedback may be stellar, 100% - and yet he&#039;s one of the biggest crooks out there. </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess what I&#039;m trying to get across is that you should only trust or put any confidence in what you hear from people you already know and trust. Pretty much everything else you hear whether good or bad - well, you would be best served to just ignore it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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