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Message:: [QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 2173044, member: 36230"]There is one seller on the bay who touts his PNG membership, surely as a way to give confidence to his buyers. Reasonable enough, right? Well, the interesting thing about this seller - another lotsa, lotsa dreck peddler - is that I cannot tell you how many times over the years I've watched a problem coin, offered at Heritage, TT, Stack's, etc, magically turn up not long after the auction ended, in his inventory as a raw, usually "problem free" coin. One that always comes to mind was one of the "baseball" variety LS50Cs. It was on Heritage residing in an NGC details holder for fairly severe obverse corrosion, but not attributed. When it appeared as one of this seller's offerings raw, said corrosion magically had turned into "toning" and had also become uncirculated. An uncommon neat variety, yes, and one probably worth the initial price of, IIRC, $190 even as its problem self, but the $500 or so (again, IIRC) the ebay buyer paid for this corroded circ toned unc, no. The point is only that those three little letters attached to a seller'/dealer's name, as with those who press their ANA membership, simply do not mean one can or should blindly trust them. Therw are many, many fine, knowledgeable, and honest dealers, well worthy of both respect and trust, who are not members and shouldn't be viewed as lesser for it.[/QUOTE]