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<p>[QUOTE="ddddd, post: 2965514, member: 22377"]Some people might use them, but quite a few aren’t fans. There was a big thread on this forum a year or two ago where someone allegedly had SEGS downgrade an expensive coin but take no responsibility for it. We also found out from that thread that at some point SEGS switched their corporate/LLC status and that all coins slabbed before that point have no guarantee (even though the owner is still the same and the holders look the same).</p><p><br /></p><p>There was also a case of an item lost by them with allegedly no positive resolution.</p><p><br /></p><p>Others have questioned their grading consistency. </p><p><br /></p><p>I personally wasn’t too thrilled after an encounter with the owner at a coin show. After standing for a while at his table and being ignored, I finally got to ask his opinion on a coin graded by his company. He wasn’t very interested in answering my question; even though the coin was in his slab, he didn’t care about that series, so it felt that I was just a nuisance to him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ddddd, post: 2965514, member: 22377"]Some people might use them, but quite a few aren’t fans. There was a big thread on this forum a year or two ago where someone allegedly had SEGS downgrade an expensive coin but take no responsibility for it. We also found out from that thread that at some point SEGS switched their corporate/LLC status and that all coins slabbed before that point have no guarantee (even though the owner is still the same and the holders look the same). There was also a case of an item lost by them with allegedly no positive resolution. Others have questioned their grading consistency. I personally wasn’t too thrilled after an encounter with the owner at a coin show. After standing for a while at his table and being ignored, I finally got to ask his opinion on a coin graded by his company. He wasn’t very interested in answering my question; even though the coin was in his slab, he didn’t care about that series, so it felt that I was just a nuisance to him.[/QUOTE]
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