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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4939702, member: 112"]A smart coin buyer will ONLY buy coins from those he knows and trust, either based personal experience or recommendation from someone else he knows and trust.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now it can legitimately be argued that there are going to be times, with a given coin, that that's just not possible at that moment. But when those times come along then you have to acknowledge and accept that you are making that purchase at your own risk, and if things go bad for whatever reason then it's your own fault and nobody else's. We are, all of us, responsible for our own actions - nobody else.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Same reasoning I previously mentioned applies - there is zero reason to have any trust in the transparent statement of a stranger. And same reasoning also applies, and even more so, to feedback ! What is feedback ? It's nothing more than comments made by a bunch of people <b>you don't know</b> ! So why would you trust or believe <b>anything</b> they have to say ? For all you know, not a one of those people knows up from down when it comes to coins. They may have been robbed blind and yet think they got a great deal. So how can anything positive they have to say actually mean anything ? </p><p><br /></p><p>And don't think for one second that doesn't happen, and very often ! Some of the biggest sellers ebay has ever seen have had feedback ratings of 99-100% - with tens of thousands of sales. But yet they were the biggest thieves, rip off artists, scammers there has ever been. What does that tell you about the value of feedback ? It tells me that not only is feedback not good, it's actually harmful in many cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>And all of this is why this is the general rule - <b>A smart coin buyer will ONLY buy coins from those he knows and trust, either based personal experience or recommendation from someone else he knows and trust !</b> - that should be followed whenever possible. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anything and everything else is just camouflage and or sales tactics that should be ignored.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4939702, member: 112"]A smart coin buyer will ONLY buy coins from those he knows and trust, either based personal experience or recommendation from someone else he knows and trust. Now it can legitimately be argued that there are going to be times, with a given coin, that that's just not possible at that moment. But when those times come along then you have to acknowledge and accept that you are making that purchase at your own risk, and if things go bad for whatever reason then it's your own fault and nobody else's. We are, all of us, responsible for our own actions - nobody else. Same reasoning I previously mentioned applies - there is zero reason to have any trust in the transparent statement of a stranger. And same reasoning also applies, and even more so, to feedback ! What is feedback ? It's nothing more than comments made by a bunch of people [B]you don't know[/B] ! So why would you trust or believe [B]anything[/B] they have to say ? For all you know, not a one of those people knows up from down when it comes to coins. They may have been robbed blind and yet think they got a great deal. So how can anything positive they have to say actually mean anything ? And don't think for one second that doesn't happen, and very often ! Some of the biggest sellers ebay has ever seen have had feedback ratings of 99-100% - with tens of thousands of sales. But yet they were the biggest thieves, rip off artists, scammers there has ever been. What does that tell you about the value of feedback ? It tells me that not only is feedback not good, it's actually harmful in many cases. And all of this is why this is the general rule - [B]A smart coin buyer will ONLY buy coins from those he knows and trust, either based personal experience or recommendation from someone else he knows and trust ![/B] - that should be followed whenever possible. Anything and everything else is just camouflage and or sales tactics that should be ignored.[/QUOTE]
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