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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;romismatist, post: 6715969, member: 44106&quot;]Like many others in this forum, I have a love/hate relationship with ebay. I&#039;ve both bought and sold many coins on ebay over maybe 20+ years, and agree that there are a lot more fakes out there than there used to be. I&#039;ve also found most of my best deals on ebay, usually through misattributed or poorly photographed coins (although the latter can sometimes backfire). I have inadvertently bought fakes and had cases where coins never arrived, but still find the thrill of the hunt in wading through what&#039;s on there. I just really wish that ebay would do something about all the openly sold fakes though... it&#039;s almost every day that I see some obvious fake with several bidders bidding up the price to something crazy. </p><p><br /></p><p>The key is just to be vigilant... I tend to add the scarcer or pricier types I&#039;m looking for from respected auction houses or trusted numismatic sellers on ebay like Lanz, Savoca Coins or Dionysus, but even there I tend to avoid coins without a pedigree that look too perfect or otherwise suspect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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