What Is A "Basement Slab" Or A Basement Slabber"?

Along with, ICCS ans CCCS..

I basically classify the basement as not sealed and insert a tier of "at least they spent 10K on a sonic sealing setup" below the 'good guys'.

There are several in that middle group. For example, PCI - is back under new owners (again for the ?fourth or fifth go around). Lots of nice sounding promises, but the proof is in the grading (and the horrible rep of several of the incarnations would have me changing the name).

Top 2 (mostly legends in their own minds, but the market likes them): PCGS and NGC
The other 3 that are acceptable to ebay *meaning you have a way to verify the slab #*
* Some people like SEGS, others hate them.
* Ditto for ICG (but they are the only ones who will slab - for protection - a contemporary counterfeit)
* Ditto for ANACS (also a problem of various owners and quality levels)

Outside of the US?

ICCS and CCCS - very well regarded for Canadian coins. ICCS doesn't have a web presence.

CGS-UK - the premier UK slabber

There are other international companies, some with good reps in the area, others with terrible reps (there is a long thread in the Aus section about APCGS).

There are also a couple of outliers that prove the rules are wrong, oh, let's name VSS - Variety Slabbing Service - uses the Coin World (easy open) shells, but is very well regarded for their attribution of varieties in several series.

Wow. She is the perfect definition of a Basement Slabber.

I will have to post this when I get the photos moved to another machine, but I found an "NGS" slab last weekend with a human hair inside. Including the follicle. So the question is do I crack it out to run DNA on the slabber?

Here is an example of a homemade (basement) slab coin. The grade is on the slab is a total joke.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1925-STANDI...131313825784

I have seen the following slabbers before: NNC, NTC, and ICG

But a recent auction search turned up these new ones:
PCC, CGGA, and HCGS

"A basement slabber slabs his own coins in Coin World slabs or some other type of crude holder, sticks on a sketchy label printed out of a low-quality printer, printed with an amazingly high grade for the coin it describes, and sells on ebay for ridiculously high prices for unaware beginning numismatists."

That was describing me right up to the word 'printer'.

I'm slabbing all my coins in Coin World holders, but not putting a grade on the label. Nor selling them, at least not now.