SGS is my favourite. The website is ridiculously dodgy, too. Check this out!
Quote:An Independent Study has recently found that SGS currently accounts for
7% of all Graded Coins sold on the internet auction site
ebay.
Wow, tell me more! But wait, there's no source, so these are just words. I also doubt that anyone without a significant share in SGS would even bother to count how many crap slabs they've released on
ebay, since they suffer from a reputation that I'd put (in my expert yet subjective opinion) at somewhere below 70.
Quote:
Only coins reaching grades of 60 to 70 will be graded.
All others will be simply returned or certified.
This is also vexing. I'm not sure if other companies do this, but isn't MS grading the hardest to do? So isn't allowing lower grades essentially doing less work for the same money? I think I know the real reason - if SGS allo .s in lower grades, this opens their insular little market up to actual rare coins (i.e. ones that are valuable enough in low grades to be worth authenticating), and it only takes one enormous
ebay scandal to really mess them up. Plus, I'm pretty sure they'd authenticate a chocolate coin on the days where Steve doesn't even bother to wear his reading glasses. And finally...
Quote:
Our experts have over 100 combined years dealing with rare and valuable coins.
America's new Grading Service.
This is either a flat lie, or SGS employs over 50 different experts.
Edited by nalaberong
08/10/2013 5:35 pm
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Posted 08/10/2013 11:46 am
