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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 783080, member: 15199&quot;]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">In several threads currently live, people are concerned about TPG companies scamming consumers, counterfeit slabs and/or coins. Each day,there are threads about people losing money on &quot;phony&quot; grading and slabbing services seen on ebay and other places, and here you want to encourage someone who has presented no evidence, verifiable or not, as to whether they have the experience, reputation, and ethics to start a new grading service? There are several directions we can approach the problems. Every few weeks on Craigs, there is a character selling slabs and labels for anyone to become like SGS, and that doesn&#039;t help numismatics either.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">As I would comment about abrasively cleaning a coin as being detrimental, I feel this is the same. If it gains me an infraction, so be it. If this person is a well known grader, I might change my mind, but until then ,IMO.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Jim</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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