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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mr. Coin Lover, post: 534989, member: 16060&quot;]E-bay is okay I think if you are experienced in two areas: #1: You are comfortable in knowing what you want and what you want the coin to look like, and what you expect to pay.&nbsp; That can be ANA standards, your own standards, or whatever you are using to make the determination.&nbsp; Do some research to have a good idea on what you expect to be required to pay for the coin, and there are many ways to do that. #2: Get comfortable with ebay itself. Remember if you are looking for a certain coin these coins will be listed this week and next week also. So be patient.&nbsp; Look for good dealers, and I think volume and feedback is a start.&nbsp; Don&#039;t buy a coin if the pictures don&#039;t answer #1 totally for you. If needed communicate with the seller, if they don&#039;t answer move on to someone else, there will ALWAYS be another coin.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think buying coins on ebay is any different than me heading to Tampa in the morning to buy a used car, if I don&#039;t know what I&#039;m doing then I&#039;m depending on a seller to look out for my welfare, not a great position to be in.&nbsp; I rarely bid on a coin initially.&nbsp; I may put one to three same type coins in my &quot;watch&quot; section and look at them several times being a little tougher on my evaluation each time.&nbsp; I like it when they all meet my criteria, if I get outbid on one maybe I&#039;ll get the next one.&nbsp; There will always be &quot;ripoff artists&quot; selling on ebay and practically everywhere else.&nbsp; At the same time there are some very nice, honest, and professional people selling there.&nbsp; Unfortunately people (myself included) have a tendency to remember bad experiences and verbalize those more than the good.&nbsp; There are thousands of coins sold on ebay every week, it is not all inexperienced buyers buying from a bunch of scoundrels.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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