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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 132498, member: 2761&quot;]I guess us &quot;little&quot; guys can&#039;t fight against the powersellers like Star Grading Service (SGS) and their eBay powerseller Aboncom.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>eBay sent me this:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>&quot;Recently we became aware that your eBay registered account was involved in the following activity:</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>* Public Board Abuse*</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I post under the handle of &quot;zakgold&quot; (its a long story) on the eBay coin forums and everytime a &quot;newbie&quot; ask questions about Star Grading Service, commonly called SGS, I give them the <u>hard</u> <u>facts</u> which is:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1.) SGS is owned and operated by the eBay powerseller Aboncom out of Ohio</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>2.) SGS is NOT a grading service, they are just a <u>packaging</u> and <u>marketing</u> service for this seller&#039;s coin inventory.&nbsp; You will find their coins in plastic, gold foil tape, and 99% of them will have labels with either <b>MS70</b> or <b>PR70</b>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Recently, a seller out on the west coast in California (<b>S</b>teves<b>G</b>ift<b>S</b>hoppe) started actively defending SGS and how great these coins are!&nbsp; Upon further review, over 75% of this seller&#039;s listing were SGS coins!&nbsp; Of course, many in the forum laid down the facts and all he did was report our posts to eBay!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Boo hoo&quot;, he cried to eBay as every newbie we saved from buying a SGS 70 coin must of hurt his business.&nbsp; Matter of fact, his name got so trashed that he recently changed his eBay I.D. it to &quot;mentone-mercantile&quot; on May 18th to distance himself from the <b>S.G.S</b>. label.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s the kicker...one of the owners of this &quot;gift shop&quot; who had the eBay I.D. as &quot;warrengacsi&quot; changed his I.D. on May 20th to &quot;zackg0ld&quot; and then started posting as <u>yours</u> <u>truly</u>...saying how great SGS is!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So, I made the forum aware about these updates and stated they were, <i>&quot;sneaky, sneaky&quot;</i> and what happens to me??&nbsp; I get charged with &quot;public board abuse&quot; and now am booted for 30 days (second offense).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Look...every numismatic that doesn&#039;t buy SGS 70 coins thinking they are truly independent is a victory for this hobby.&nbsp; Say hello to the eBay coin forum and let them know I was booted...again!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://forums.ebay.com/db1/forum.jspa?forumID=8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.ebay.com/db1/forum.jspa?forumID=8" rel="nofollow">http://forums.ebay.com/db1/forum.jspa?forumID=8</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>Pass the word...</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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