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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 105527, member: 2761&quot;]Just remember...if you plan to buy these coins &quot;sight-unseen&quot;, which eBay is all about, the <u>risk</u> is all on YOU!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from the top four TPG&#039;s (third party grading) of PCGS, NGC, ANACS and ICG.&nbsp; Okay, I may add PCI and SEGS to the mix, just deduct 2 to 5 points for MS/PR grades and 5 to 20 points for circulated grades...all things being equal...</p><p><br /></p><p>The rest of these &quot;grading&quot; companies are, in my opinion, nothing more than <u>packaging</u> and <u>fluff</u> to make the coin appear to be more valuable than it is.&nbsp; For instance, take a bottle of beer and throw a gold foil on the top and make a statement that your master brewer produced the brew.&nbsp; After you taste it and choke, you realize that you made a mistake.</p><p><br /></p><p>But wait a minute...it has a gold foil on the bottle just like SGS markets with their gold &quot;security&quot; tape!!&nbsp; It has to be <u>worth</u> something...doesn&#039;t it??</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.abon.com/ebay/57pr70lin-3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; <img src="http://bayross.ru/catalogue/images_c/beer_angel_gold_bottle.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The alphabet of slabs that are profiting on eBay are just that...<u>marketing</u>, <u>packaging</u> and <u>fluff</u>.&nbsp; Sure there maybe a legit compnay trying to break into the TPG market (good luck), but when you see seller after seller pushing their own &quot;graded&quot; coins by marketing them as &quot;independently&quot; graded...well, if you want to throw away your money...go for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This &quot;hope&quot; that coins graded by SGS or other alphabet grading companies are maybe a 65 or 66 if <u>they</u> grade it a 70 is just that...hope and wishful thinking![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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