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Message:: [QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9691018, member: 10944"]Still happens to me. I’ll buy bags of sterling trusting the auctioneer or estate sale person that I’m buying it from only to find a piece or two of junk in them often enough. I’ve realized many auctioneers, even ones with excellent reputations will call just about anything Native American or Chinese to get extra bids from novice bidders. Both of which I’ve fallen for before. They’ll put known fakes in their auctions and just not date them. Novice buyers will assume that if they are in an auction of otherwise authentic and antique items that they must be good. Speed bidding while distracted I’ve fallen for this. Lots of potential pitfalls out there. As potteryplease said, it’s the school of hard knocks for sure. I recently bought an item off fbmp. Paid them upfront with no protections after talking to them on the phone for like 30 mins. That was more diligence than I’d done with 99% of my marketplace/CL buys. I had never once had an issue, always going on intuition. This guy burned me for $160. I’d like to say I learned a lesson but I’ll find something good again and trust someone again. Over confident in my ability to read people, and too trusting in the general honesty of people.[/QUOTE]