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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silentnviolent, post: 1490439, member: 8797&quot;]I buy most of my coins from auctions within my state. I love dealer liquidation auctions and buying in bulk. I&#039;ve gotten many great deals on these auctions and never bid more than, as previously stated, around 50-75% of bluebook (depending on how much I like the coin) which is generally a good price on any given coin within my budget. Or it will be by the time I&#039;m ever ready to sell. I buy raw coins. I buy coins I like and for those will come out of my shell when buying from an individual. I check auction results archives and commit as much as possible to memory. I learn all I can on forgery/counterfeit detection. At this time I do not buy slabbed coins due to budget and the fact that I&#039;d like to one day have a slabbed collection made from finds I&#039;ve submitted. Who knows, maybe one day a person will be on CoinTalk all proud of their new purchase of a piece from the &quot;Silentnviolent Collection&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a greedy hoarder and the reasoning behind it is that if I continue the trend for 30+ years I hope to have the experience, knowledge, and an inventory to open my own B&amp;M when I retire. If I keep it up I believe I can have the shelves filled with my personal inventory rather than taking out a loan to get it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone says not to get coins for investment. And I agree to a point. There are rarely any chances of a quick flip, unless you happen to cherrypick (guilty). Maybe I&#039;m wrong and I&#039;ll fall flat on my face when the time comes and then everyone can say &quot;I told you so&quot; but until then I like doing it the way I do, and I have fun with it. Haggling is fun, and I do that too as well as bartering. </p><p><br /></p><p>I like the game and I like to go big but for me that means buying when I deem that the price is right, or I come up empty. I&#039;m not in a hurry. I have all the time in the world to find the deals I like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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