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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1421023, member: 112"]I'd say you're right. But isn't that the way it should be ? Do you think for one second the guy who runs SGS, or any of the other bottom tier companies, is qualified to grade coins ? And it's not that the groups are pre-selected, it's that they are qualified to grade coins to begin with.  There have always been examples, in limited numbers, of coins previously graded by NGC or PCGS, that were downgraded by ANACS and ICG. And there have always been limited numbers of coins previously graded by ANACS and ICG that were upgraded by NGC and PCGS. But as a general rule, that does not happen. The point is you cannot pick out specific examples and say that those specific examples prove that this company is as good or better than that company. Those specific examples are exceptions, and there are always exceptions. But exceptions do not make the rule. The rule is established by what happens most of the time, not by what happens once in a while.  So far off that it will never happen. Even PCGS and NGC themselves don't do that.  Yes, they have had gradeflation. But the point is, that as a general rule, even with that gradeflation taken into account, ANACS and ICG typically grade coins higher than NGC or PCGS would grade the same coins. In other words, in today's world, if ANACS or ICG grades a coin 65, NGC or PCGS would grade the same coin 64, or even 63. That's why ebay is setting these rules. Ebay believes, just like most respected and knowledgeable dealers and collectors, that the new ANACS and ICG over-grade coins. That's the whole point of this. The market as a whole believes that ANACS and ICG over-grade coins. It really is just that simple.[/QUOTE]

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