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<p>[QUOTE="princeofwaldo, post: 1420988, member: 24091"]Have to disagree on several points. eBay, because of its market dominance, functions as a monoply. Name a single serious online competitor that occupies the same market with the same number of listings. You can't because there aren't any. If you took eBid, all the other auction sites, added in Teletrade and even Heritage plus Bowers, the total number of coins sold is a fraction of what eBay handles. As such, they are a monoply and proving restraint of trade that was meant to benefit either eBay or their partners, --in this case PCGS and NGC-- would be something any company seriously affected by the change would be expected to pursue. This is especially true given that ANACS charges less for submissions for essentially the same service as NGC or PCGS performs.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the prohibition on ANACS as a search arguement, the change is meant to directly and specifically destroy ANACS as a company. There is no other way to interpret the action. Were eBay to prohibit the search terms "mint packaging" or some other equally spurious prohibition, they might stand a chance in defending themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="princeofwaldo, post: 1420988, member: 24091"]Have to disagree on several points. eBay, because of its market dominance, functions as a monoply. Name a single serious online competitor that occupies the same market with the same number of listings. You can't because there aren't any. If you took eBid, all the other auction sites, added in Teletrade and even Heritage plus Bowers, the total number of coins sold is a fraction of what eBay handles. As such, they are a monoply and proving restraint of trade that was meant to benefit either eBay or their partners, --in this case PCGS and NGC-- would be something any company seriously affected by the change would be expected to pursue. This is especially true given that ANACS charges less for submissions for essentially the same service as NGC or PCGS performs. As for the prohibition on ANACS as a search arguement, the change is meant to directly and specifically destroy ANACS as a company. There is no other way to interpret the action. Were eBay to prohibit the search terms "mint packaging" or some other equally spurious prohibition, they might stand a chance in defending themselves.[/QUOTE]
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