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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 906443, member: 66"]Disclaimer: This poster is a VERY anti-slab collector and his opinions tend to display his bias.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They have good people, but don't count on it. They would almost certainly recognize a counterfeit coin, but I wouldn't guarantee they could spot a fake slab. We have caught them selling coins in fake PCGS slabs, the 1989 rattler counterfeits.</p><p><br /></p><p>They like slabs though, they don't have to grade them, and they don't have to worry about authenticity. If you read their auction rules they have a clause in there that coins in slabs from the major services are not returnable for any reason. If you have a problem take it up with the grading service. In the case of authenticity though they would probably take it back (because they have another clause that says all coins are guaranteed to be authentic. These two clauses conflict, but it probably lets them apply whichever one would be to their best advantage.) and then they would take it up with the service.</p><p><br /></p><p>So my only concern would be that since they let the services take so much of the responsibility, and better than 90% of the coins they sell are slabbed, they may only look at the coin with an eye toward description for the sale, and not toward verification of grade and authenticity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 906443, member: 66"]Disclaimer: This poster is a VERY anti-slab collector and his opinions tend to display his bias. They have good people, but don't count on it. They would almost certainly recognize a counterfeit coin, but I wouldn't guarantee they could spot a fake slab. We have caught them selling coins in fake PCGS slabs, the 1989 rattler counterfeits. They like slabs though, they don't have to grade them, and they don't have to worry about authenticity. If you read their auction rules they have a clause in there that coins in slabs from the major services are not returnable for any reason. If you have a problem take it up with the grading service. In the case of authenticity though they would probably take it back (because they have another clause that says all coins are guaranteed to be authentic. These two clauses conflict, but it probably lets them apply whichever one would be to their best advantage.) and then they would take it up with the service. So my only concern would be that since they let the services take so much of the responsibility, and better than 90% of the coins they sell are slabbed, they may only look at the coin with an eye toward description for the sale, and not toward verification of grade and authenticity.[/QUOTE]
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