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Message:: [QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2863667, member: 76863"]I definitely agree that there will always be self assessment from buyers regardless of who graded it or what standard they used, I just think there's a lot of substantial factors in play at the moment that really cloud the issue and make it almost impossible to draw any firm conclusions about it at the moment.  I fully expect Aussie coins to go soft right now at the US auction houses.  I actually like a lot of Aussie coins and collect some of them myself, but aside from the rarities/high end grades or coins that are are just hard to find for whatever reason there's so much substantial cost built into an Aussie bidder using those auction venues that bids really have to be backed off to compensate.  Between the shipping and handling fees they charge and the currency conversion right now the main market for those is almost eliminated off the bat.  It's hard to justify the fees without ordering several items.  The other thing too is that with some of the auction houses and their rising fees, on more common stuff I do believe we are also seeing bidders just adjust their bidding levels to more closely reflect the true total costs.  We see what it ended for, but the winner has to pay more at checkout[/QUOTE]