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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silver Striker, post: 279309, member: 1745&quot;]Well,</p><p><br /></p><p>I still haven&#039;t heard anything back from 7 of the 9 ANA officials who received my initial e-mail.</p><p><br /></p><p>The e-mail I received and posted from the ANA president states that requests were sent out to 11 grading companies, but doesn&#039;t state who those were.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have written back to the ANA president in a reply asking if SGS received such a request from the ANA.&nbsp; That was 3 days ago and I still haven&#039;t received a response.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a collector who is fairly new to the hobby I find it very disturbing indeed that SGS may have received such a request &quot;to be the exclusive grading services for the American Numismatic Association&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is a newbie to think of the ANA if this is true?&nbsp; As a new collector myself, I&#039;ve known of the distain and bad reputation of SGS as a &quot;so called grading company&quot;, which they ARE NOT!&nbsp; How can the officials of the ANA come to such a decision to include the likes of SGS?&nbsp; What does that say about the ethics the organization to even consider including entities that are KNOWN in the hobby to be a self slabbing entity.&nbsp; Before the ANA made any such requests for this honor they should have set criteria that should have removed any consideration for the likes of SGS and others who should not have been considered.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the ANA did send a request to SGS, I believe there is nothing the ANA can do regarding the note on the SGS web site.&nbsp; The damage is done and any newbie finding the SGS web site and reading it will be EXTREMELY MISLEAD![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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