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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 3578689, member: 99239&quot;]There&#039;s a lot of angst against ebay. Sure, there&#039;s a ton of fakes but it&#039;s not that hard to lower your risk considerably. If I had to give a new collector advice on this I&#039;d say look for accounts that have been selling for a long time. This often, but not always, correlates to a high number of feedbacks (like over a thousand). When you click on the seller&#039;s username you get a number of stats and in the center of the screen a message saying &quot;Based in [country], [seller_username] has been an eBay member since XXX&quot;. Accounts used for selling fakes tend to be new and stick around only for a few weeks. The turnover with them is so high that they often use &#039;burner&#039; names with appended numbers or unreadable text strings which is a useful hint that they don&#039;t expect to last very long before they&#039;re shut down.</p><p><br /></p><p>But why buy on ebay at all? Well, that&#039;s pretty much the only place you&#039;re going to find coins sold for wholesale. The business plan of every single coin dealer or auction house is to buy wholesale and then add a markup to make their time and labor profitable. If you have plenty of money and/or are paranoid about getting stuck with a fake coin then it&#039;s a no-brainer. Pay the expert for his or her effort. If however you want the best bang for the buck then ebay remains pretty much the only venue where you can skip the middleman.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that works fine up to about the $500 range. After that you typically have many fewer choices on ebay and need to start looking on the auction circuit or dealer inventory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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