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Message:: [QUOTE="tammiGee, post: 3278736, member: 98133"]Post-Meg days at Ebay  It may be known to some of us older collectors but in the early 2000's Ebay did address this issue in a broader fashion that made it against policy to  advertise any coins' specific details such as authenticity, grades etc..unless they were graded by  TPG that supplied a publicly accessible Price Guide This was meant to curtail activities that could not be qualified such as listing with your own given grade, replicas or fakes. At the time the top 2 TPG where  in compliance , with the ATS one with green labels  still working on their's. I believe the above mentioned ATS company did complete one and publicized it. I posed the question to a vice-pres, and the owner of ATS and was told that their current owner was not aware of any such guide and that they had no intention of creating one now, "Our belief is that would be a conflict of interest" was the answer they gave me. Of course Ebay now allows anything "minted" in as well as any coins slabbed in in number of companies  holders online thus rolling the TPG game, such as slabbers, back in business. Maybe somebody else remembers this and can elaborate....[/QUOTE]