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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MorganFred, post: 39955, member: 1779&quot;]I don&#039;t believe that eBay has the expertise to be able to differentiate between legitimate third-party graders and the wannabees although it now has the ANA as an advisor for coin and money categories. Also, if eBay banned SGS, it would also have to ban other similar fly-by-night personal grading &quot;companies&quot; such as FSG, NNC, CRC, PGS (all three of them), and NGS, to name a few. If it did it right, it would also have to go up the feeding chain and ban the more established, but disreputable grading companies such as NTC and AGC, and perhaps even PCI. It might prove difficult to draw the line between established and reputable companies and those which are ripoffs since there&#039;s several which are various shades of grey in the middle. And it would be almost a certainty that eBay would have a lawsuit on its hands if it attempted to grade the grading companies and ban some of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also hard to guess just how much eBay knows and reads about these message boards and forums, including its own Coins and Paper Money Forum. Certainly, it has someone constantly reading the posts on its own forum;&nbsp; if a post violates eBay&#039;s forum rules, it doesn&#039;t take very long for it to be yanked. I think at least some of our forums&#039; messages make it up the chain of command; I believe that the forums&#039; collective content was in large part responsible for pjd1966&#039;s suspension.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nevertheless, it WOULD be nice if eBay were to take some action or at least issue a declaration of principles regarding third-party grading companies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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