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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 102080, member: 2761&quot;]Hats off to <i>Coin World</i>.&nbsp; They ran a great article in their Janurary 9, 2006th edition titled &quot;Alphabet Explosion in Slab City...Slabs of lesser-known, new grading services proliferate at general online auction sites&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There, they researched many of these so-called grading companies that sell their coins, primarily on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the companies they researched:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>IGS, INB, NGS, NNC, NNGS, NTC, PCC, PCCI, PCI, PGS, TGS, UGS,</b> and my favorite, <b>SGS</b> (Star Grading Services). </p><p><br /></p><p>Out of these &quot;grading&quot; companies, Coin World was only able to find any information on seven of these bozo&#039;s.&nbsp; E-mails were sent to the seven companies requesting further information and only three responded:&nbsp; <b>TGS</b>, <b>NTC </b>and <b>SGS</b>.&nbsp; Imagine that!, you have an opportunity to blow your horn for your company and only <u>three</u> responded!!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>TGS</b> responded by asking for an address where information could be mailed, but none was received by Coin World.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>NTC</b> responded that it uses ANA training and, &quot;We guarantee the authenticity of all coins we encapsulate&quot;, but offered no ther details about that.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite people at <b>SGS </b>responded, &quot;Sorry, but we are so busy we are not able to take care of our long time customers so we are not answereing any requests right now from new customers.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>---Funny about that response because I got the same response over two years ago when I asked if the powerseller Aboncom owns this &quot;grading&quot; service??</p><p><br /></p><p>My opinion after reading this article.&nbsp; <b>STAY AWAY FROM ALL OF THEM</b>!!&nbsp; They are worthless and they will turn off a new generation of collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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