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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3127187, member: 19463"]I still have a bad taste in my mouth about VCoins dating back to when the original owner sold it and I had to move my website from their space. They have made many improvements in recent years but the VCoins I loved no longer exists and I still feel the need to apply the same care there that I do with eBay. There are really fine sellers both places. There are people I would not touch both places. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have had recent problems with messages sent through their 'contact us' system never being answered. Running an operation like VCoins would require a lot more hard work and ability than I could ever muster so I should not be so hard on them. I am. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would think that more of the VCoins dealers would be happy cheap coins do not show. When you do any search on any venue you will note some coins are more expensive than others. Sometimes we see terrible coins at twice the price of nicer ones. If one seller is offering things at $15 that others list at $50, the high price crowd would certainly prefer that fewer people would see the coins. I am hard to convince that the hobby as a whole is made better by those who buy at retail and set up as pretend full service dealers trying to convince beginners that they represent the true market. I started in the hobby when I had no money for expensive coins but was treated then like someone who might still be a customers decades later. Over half of the coins I have bought in recent years are from dealers I have known for 25+ years. I'm not sure I see how hiding coins under $25 will produce more long term customers in decades to come.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3127187, member: 19463"]I still have a bad taste in my mouth about VCoins dating back to when the original owner sold it and I had to move my website from their space. They have made many improvements in recent years but the VCoins I loved no longer exists and I still feel the need to apply the same care there that I do with eBay. There are really fine sellers both places. There are people I would not touch both places. I have had recent problems with messages sent through their 'contact us' system never being answered. Running an operation like VCoins would require a lot more hard work and ability than I could ever muster so I should not be so hard on them. I am. I would think that more of the VCoins dealers would be happy cheap coins do not show. When you do any search on any venue you will note some coins are more expensive than others. Sometimes we see terrible coins at twice the price of nicer ones. If one seller is offering things at $15 that others list at $50, the high price crowd would certainly prefer that fewer people would see the coins. I am hard to convince that the hobby as a whole is made better by those who buy at retail and set up as pretend full service dealers trying to convince beginners that they represent the true market. I started in the hobby when I had no money for expensive coins but was treated then like someone who might still be a customers decades later. Over half of the coins I have bought in recent years are from dealers I have known for 25+ years. I'm not sure I see how hiding coins under $25 will produce more long term customers in decades to come.[/QUOTE]
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