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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silver Striker, post: 39249, member: 1745&quot;]Has anyone noticed about 3 to 4 months ago ABONCOM&#039;s auctions on e-Bay made a change in the way they listed and pictured their coins and COA&#039;s?</p><p><br /></p><p>I noticed this starting right after their first auction of the silver strike Circus Circus that they had listed as being a Chipco.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a picture of the items as shown in that auction.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~nhavens/sgsserial1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>After seeing this auction several silver strike and chip collectors wrote to ABONCOM to inform them about their token and that it wasn&#039;t a Chipco.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a picture of the items resulting in the new auction.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~nhavens/sgsserial2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Note now that the serial number on the slab has changed and the COA is now changed to a blank pro-forma.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now take a look at this current ABONCOM auction coin.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~nhavens/sgshalf.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Notice that the area where SGS places the serial numbers is now digitally greyed out.&nbsp; Also the supplied COA is a blank pro-forma.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve noticed that all of the recent casino tokens offered had the serial numbers listed on the slabs in the auctions and were not greyed out.&nbsp; However the COA&#039;s were all blank pro-formas.&nbsp; This leads me to believe that SGS/ABONCOM only had ONE of these items to sell and had no additional duplicates.&nbsp; I also noted that most of the grades on the tokens were NOT of the very top grades.&nbsp; Still they used a Chip Grading scale on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t gone to the trouble to check ALL of ABONCOM&#039;s coin auctions but, the many I have looked at all have the serial numbers digitally greyed out and are accompanied with the blank pro-forma COA.</p><p><br /></p><p>MORE PROOF other than the domain ownership of ABON.COM and STARGRADING.ORG being one and the same, that they are.&nbsp; Otherwise, how can ABONCOM offer blank pro-forma COA&#039;s?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now by removing the serial numbers on the actual coin slabs offered in the auctions they can now take any coin and slab/grade/authenitcate it create a matching COA and send it to you instead of the actual coin pictured in the auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>This in itself seems to be a violation of e-Bay rules.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/selling-coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/selling-coins.html" rel="nofollow">http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/selling-coins.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: red"># Include a clear picture of the actual coin or paper money item that you are offering for sale</span> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: red"># Specifically identify every individual coin or paper money item listed to avoid misunderstandings about the nature of your items. .</span></p><p><br /></p><p>This is NOT what ABONCOM is doing.&nbsp; By digitally removing the serial numbers on the slabbed coin they are NOT sending you that exact coin and probably have no intent to do so.&nbsp; They are removing that coins specific identity.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is their easy solution to the old &quot;BAIT and SWITCH&quot; game.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t taken the time to write e-Bay regarding ABONCOM&#039;s appearent bending of the rules with coins.&nbsp; I did write to e-Bay regarding their selling of Silver Strikes using a Chip Grading Scale and problems with their identification.&nbsp; I receive an e-mail back acknowloging my expertise as a Silver Stike collector (I authored the first price guide) but they cannot guarantee anything and that I should ask questions of the seller!!!! Yeah right ask this person who know&#039;s nothing about these tokens and cannot read?&nbsp; Yeah right.&nbsp; So far I have let it go.&nbsp; I just feel sorry for the many bidders who bid on the casino items.&nbsp; Thankfully, some have gone under value and some have questionable higher prices.&nbsp; I&#039;ve tried to keep my collecting friends abreast of what&#039;s happening on their message boards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Question now, is ABONCOM breaking e-Bay rules by digitally greying out the serial numbers on the slabs?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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