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<p>[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 1133060, member: 15199"]I really only know 1 that is not in the business that is an "investor", most are accumulators. So they complain when the price is down that their stash (Including some very large ones) is losing money, and they complain when silver is going up that they can afford to buy any, and they will probably end up close to the middle. The other one buys and sells physical metal regularly, and sports a new Escalade every year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the difficulties on ebay are that the buyers do not read and research before they buy. Raw coins are usually real, just mistreated so their value is much less than seen in price guides. Don't understand the difference between plated and solid silver. Don't know there is a difference in troy ounces and pounds and avoirdupois ounces and pounds. Fall for the semantics on high rated "common modern coins" future value, and that one-of-a-kind errors may be worth only face value. I often buy on ebay and have only had 1 problem transaction, and that was with a film camera and not a coin, but I would never recommend it to a novice or someone who would buy with out thinking, and that lets a lot of my family and friends out <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 1133060, member: 15199"]I really only know 1 that is not in the business that is an "investor", most are accumulators. So they complain when the price is down that their stash (Including some very large ones) is losing money, and they complain when silver is going up that they can afford to buy any, and they will probably end up close to the middle. The other one buys and sells physical metal regularly, and sports a new Escalade every year. Most of the difficulties on ebay are that the buyers do not read and research before they buy. Raw coins are usually real, just mistreated so their value is much less than seen in price guides. Don't understand the difference between plated and solid silver. Don't know there is a difference in troy ounces and pounds and avoirdupois ounces and pounds. Fall for the semantics on high rated "common modern coins" future value, and that one-of-a-kind errors may be worth only face value. I often buy on ebay and have only had 1 problem transaction, and that was with a film camera and not a coin, but I would never recommend it to a novice or someone who would buy with out thinking, and that lets a lot of my family and friends out :) Jim[/QUOTE]
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