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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 24576452, member: 104064"]PCGS runs their forum like Stalin runs a country. A prolific author (RWB) and I demonstrated that their designation of a 1942 pattern cent as "high relief" was bogus, and after 20 pages of posts and many hours of research, they poofed the whole thread. RWB literally wrote the book on 1942 experimental cents, and he was banned for no apparent reason. Then the president posts a thread on their "secret rules" for forum posts, I asked what their rules are for deleting threads that embarrass them, and boom, instant ban. Needless to say, they'll never get any of my business. Obviously ebay would have to hire a few experts to vet their coins, but I don't think it would be as onerous as [USER=27832]@-jeffB[/USER] indicates. For slabbed coins, they could require sellers to input the cert numbers, and validating against the TPG and a list of known fake slabs could be automated. A similar database of the most frequently faked coins that get automatic review would weed out a big chunk and not cost all that much. But they prefer to run a flea market, because they can.[/QUOTE]