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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MorganFred, post: 39175, member: 1779&quot;]I&#039;m not at all certain about what can be done to curtail Aboncom&#039;s activities. We can file all sorts of reports with eBay and send off lots of emails, but as far as I know, he hasn&#039;t broken any laws nor violated eBay&#039;s terms of service. SGS, as Aboncom&#039;s personal certification company is a joke among the coin collecting community, but Aboncom makes no specific claims about SGS&#039;s grading accuracy. He doesn&#039;t sell fakes nor fail to deliver (with, perhaps some exceptions) and the coins he sells aren&#039;t particularly valuable (at least those I researched). He has a lot of negative/neutral feedbacks (382 of some 150K transactions), but he doesn&#039;t respond with threats a la Savannah Pamela. I suppose a case might be made for fraud, but this would have to be a legal process through the court system and probably a victim would have to initiate such an action which wouldn&#039;t be likely over a $26 loss.</p><p><br /></p><p>He also doesn&#039;t seem to be an ANA nor PNG member, so there&#039;s no peer nor professional organization pressure with which to apply pressure. I am also not certain that these organizations can do anything beyond their own borders. Perhaps with the ANA&#039;s new affiliation with eBay, something might be approached from that direction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Certainly, he&#039;s no Pamela Donnelly; it appears he&#039;s a lot smarter, so doesn&#039;t even come close to eBay&#039;s threshold of suspension. Ideally, Aboncom&#039;s buyer would be savvy and buy coins intelligently, but we&#039;d don&#039;t live in an ideal world.</p><p><br /></p><p>Open to suggestions and ideas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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