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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MarcosX, post: 3952621, member: 77127&quot;]Barry Im concerned when NGC says a coin for example ..is unauthenticateable (if that is a word)</p><p>the potential buyer will have a seed planted in their head that all this sellers coins by association are suspect now, many newcomers to the hobby are likely to use this service. </p><p>&nbsp;You are saying that when ngc provides an opinion on a coin (using a photo mind you) that their is no one affected by this.That is not true unless you are in the minds of everybody in the marketplace which is impossible. potentially many legitimate businesses that operate on ebay that specialize in raw ancient coins could lose a customer and a potential long term customer all because of a company that wishes to profit when it opines on coins from a picture. this is like me standing outside a jewelery store saying give me five bucks and Ill tell if thats a cubic zircon or a real diamond before you buy it from them with out opening up the display case and Ill tell you that from afar. </p><p>&nbsp;It is true anybody can get opinions on a coin authenticity from a social board but this is the first time ive seen somebody monetize it before the coin is purchased. Congratulations by the way to ebay and ngc as they have a figured out a way to keep fakes on the ebay marketplace and figured out how&nbsp; to make money off of it without hiring a soul its actually quite genius on their end taking a cut like that.</p><p>it seems they need to keep fakes on ebay to fulfill the demand of this new side gig they have developed.</p><p>&nbsp;Now I dont think any coins I sell will have any problems. but still some of the points Ive mentioned should be considered by ngc and ebay. best of success on this venture I hope it works out well for everybody but in the end it will probably just cost us raw coin sellers as ngc tries to continue to commoditize this market. </p><p>&nbsp;no disrespect I appreciate a lot of the posts you add to the conversations on these boards.</p><p>Peace[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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