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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 3978577, member: 4626&quot;]On one hand, I wish sellers were more honest, yes, but on the other, buyers should do basic research and educate themselves before they spend money on coins (or anything else for that matter).&nbsp; I&#039;m not a fan of TPGs in general but even I can&#039;t say that they&#039;re the problem here.&nbsp; NGC honestly and competently authenticated the coin, identified it, and gave it a grade; that&#039;s all they&#039;re responsible for doing.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a non-zero chance that the seller honestly doesn&#039;t know what the value is or is just being unrealistically optimistic.&nbsp; Just because they&#039;re asking that price doesn&#039;t mean they&#039;ll ever get it.&nbsp; I see plenty of similarly ridiculously overpriced items on eBay and I have to think it&#039;s unlikely they ever sell for what they&#039;re asking.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end I have to reject the premise that &quot;eBay sellers (are) abusing &#039;slabbed&#039; coins.&quot;&nbsp; They&#039;re attempting (but definitely not always succeeding) at abusing potential buyers&#039; lack of knowledge.&nbsp; I think they are wrong for doing so, but if buyers take it upon themselves to educate themselves about what they buy, then such sellers won&#039;t be able to get away with it.&nbsp; Coveat emptor (may the buyer beware).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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