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Message:: [QUOTE="Midas, post: 115337, member: 2761"]Look...just because you sell loose change found in your dresser draw to somebody on the streets, that doesn't make you a "dealer" in the true and spirited definition of the word.  With that said, if I write AU55 or XF40 on a 2x2 and sell it to some sap and tell him it was independently graded, that doesn't warrant or define me as a grading company either. I could even state I take submissions and go so far to actually grade a coin or two. If any submissions I do receive add up to, .0000001% of all the coins that were sold under my "grading" label, you could call me and anybody else for that matter a "grading company"...but let's not get boiled down in syntax. SGS aka Star Grading Service is just an eBay powerseller owned by Larry Bence who owns Aboncom who in turn sells of these marketed and packaged coins to unsuspecting buyers who REALLY think they are getting a third-partied graded coin. If you want to get all hot and bothered about the definition of "grading" and "company", then you are right.  But let's call a spade a spade and make sure newbies know who SGS and Aboncom really are before they bid or purchase these coins. If the facts don't bother them, you know what they say...a fool and his money will soon depart from one another.[/QUOTE]