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<p>[QUOTE="Midas, post: 114521, member: 2761"]Let's get this straight...</p><p> </p><p><b>SGS is <span style="color: red">NOT</span> a grading company!!</b> When you take bank rolls, pick out the "pretty ones" and put them into YOUR OWN plastic with gold foil tape, it is not grading. It is simply <u>marketing</u> and <u>packaging</u>...nothing more. PLEASE...let's call SGS for what they are. Hence one of the reasons why SGS is NOT listed under the grey sheets:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.greysheet.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.greysheet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.greysheet.com/</a></p><p> </p><p>What SGS is doing is no differant than putting a gold foil on a bottle of beer and now calling it a "master brew". You still get beer, as bad as it may be, but the gold foil makes the buyer believe it is something special, when it is NOT!!</p><p> </p><p>Remember this...the major seller of SGS coins is the very eBay powerseller that sells SGS packaged coins! Consider the following...</p><p> </p><p>Do a search of who <u>owns</u> SGS and Aboncon and you get:</p><p><br /></p><p>Registrant Name:<b>Larry Bence</b></p><p>Registrant Organization:Star Grading Service</p><p>Registrant Street1:115 Park Ave West</p><p>Registrant Street2:</p><p>Registrant Street3:</p><p>Registrant City:Mansfield</p><p>Registrant State/Province:OH</p><p>Registrant Postal Code:44902</p><p>Registrant Country:US</p><p>Registrant Phone:+1.<b>4195225346 </b>Registrant Phone Ext.:120</p><p>Registrant FAX:+1.4195226379</p><p>Registrant FAX Ext.:</p><p>Registrant Email:lbence@abon.com</p><p> </p><p><b>For <a href="http://www.abon.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.abon.com/" rel="nofollow">www.abon.com</a> information, you have to go through directNIC and you get:</b></p><p> </p><p>Registrant:</p><p> </p><p>Abon Limited</p><p>115 Park Ave. West</p><p>Mansfield, OH 44902</p><p>US</p><p><b>419-522-5346</b></p><p> </p><p><b>Calling SGS a grading company is not correct...PERIOD</b></p><p> </p><p><b>Stick with ANACS, ICG, PCGS and NGC...or you will be sorry if you are buying "sight-unseen" coins. </b></p><p> </p><p>After all, companies like SGS are betting you will buy/bid their coins without seeing them first.</p><p> </p><p>Why do you think all of these so-called "grading" companies exist solely on internet auction sites like eBay, but you will hardly ever see them at coin shows and you will <b>NEVER</b> see them in reputible auction houses like Heritage, Bowers & Merena, and Teletrade??</p><p><br /></p><p>Answer that question and you will save yourself a lot of headaches and lighter wallets![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Midas, post: 114521, member: 2761"]Let's get this straight... [B]SGS is [COLOR=red]NOT[/COLOR] a grading company!![/B] When you take bank rolls, pick out the "pretty ones" and put them into YOUR OWN plastic with gold foil tape, it is not grading. It is simply [U]marketing[/U] and [U]packaging[/U]...nothing more. PLEASE...let's call SGS for what they are. Hence one of the reasons why SGS is NOT listed under the grey sheets: [URL="http://www.greysheet.com/"]http://www.greysheet.com/[/URL] What SGS is doing is no differant than putting a gold foil on a bottle of beer and now calling it a "master brew". You still get beer, as bad as it may be, but the gold foil makes the buyer believe it is something special, when it is NOT!! Remember this...the major seller of SGS coins is the very eBay powerseller that sells SGS packaged coins! Consider the following... Do a search of who [U]owns[/U] SGS and Aboncon and you get: Registrant Name:[B]Larry Bence[/B] Registrant Organization:Star Grading Service Registrant Street1:115 Park Ave West Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:Mansfield Registrant State/Province:OH Registrant Postal Code:44902 Registrant Country:US Registrant Phone:+1.[B]4195225346 [/B]Registrant Phone Ext.:120 Registrant FAX:+1.4195226379 Registrant FAX Ext.: Registrant Email:lbence@abon.com [B]For [URL="http://www.abon.com/"]www.abon.com[/URL] information, you have to go through directNIC and you get:[/B] Registrant: Abon Limited 115 Park Ave. West Mansfield, OH 44902 US [B]419-522-5346[/B] [B]Calling SGS a grading company is not correct...PERIOD[/B] [B]Stick with ANACS, ICG, PCGS and NGC...or you will be sorry if you are buying "sight-unseen" coins. [/B] After all, companies like SGS are betting you will buy/bid their coins without seeing them first. Why do you think all of these so-called "grading" companies exist solely on internet auction sites like eBay, but you will hardly ever see them at coin shows and you will [B]NEVER[/B] see them in reputible auction houses like Heritage, Bowers & Merena, and Teletrade?? Answer that question and you will save yourself a lot of headaches and lighter wallets![/QUOTE]
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