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<p>[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 188344, member: 669"]That's actually two questions, because of the incredibly vast difference between your two suggested alternatives.</p><p><br /></p><p>Teletrade is a place to look for high grade and/or rare coins. Use it along with Heritage, the Steinbergs, Clark Smith, etc. It's more of a supplement than an alternative to EBay shopping.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coinbay and the dozens (hundreds?) of other EBay wannabies are a different matter altogether, and I absolutely do not agree with you that they are a good alternative to EBay..</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact of the matter is that EBay has a huge bidder base, while the wannabies don't. A few years ago as an experiment I listed some duplicates on half a dozen sites. The EBay listing got several times as many hits as the other five combined and the coin listed there sold for a reasonable price. Only one of the others got any bids, and the high one was below what a dealer would have paid.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is an extremely simple way to avoid getting "taken" on EBay - education. If you know what you are buying, and understand how to use the feedback system, you can pretty much avoid both the scam artists and the totally ignorant accidental scammers. Of my 400+/- EBay purchases - mostly coins - the only counterfeits I have bought were the ones I bought as counterfeits; and the only instance in which I felt that I was taken advantage of was a non-coin purchase where I really didn't know what I was doing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 188344, member: 669"]That's actually two questions, because of the incredibly vast difference between your two suggested alternatives. Teletrade is a place to look for high grade and/or rare coins. Use it along with Heritage, the Steinbergs, Clark Smith, etc. It's more of a supplement than an alternative to EBay shopping. Coinbay and the dozens (hundreds?) of other EBay wannabies are a different matter altogether, and I absolutely do not agree with you that they are a good alternative to EBay.. The fact of the matter is that EBay has a huge bidder base, while the wannabies don't. A few years ago as an experiment I listed some duplicates on half a dozen sites. The EBay listing got several times as many hits as the other five combined and the coin listed there sold for a reasonable price. Only one of the others got any bids, and the high one was below what a dealer would have paid. There is an extremely simple way to avoid getting "taken" on EBay - education. If you know what you are buying, and understand how to use the feedback system, you can pretty much avoid both the scam artists and the totally ignorant accidental scammers. Of my 400+/- EBay purchases - mostly coins - the only counterfeits I have bought were the ones I bought as counterfeits; and the only instance in which I felt that I was taken advantage of was a non-coin purchase where I really didn't know what I was doing.[/QUOTE]
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