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Posted 12/19/2013 10:38 am
OK, so this particular case seems to be a bad actor. He was the winner of that Heritage auction, right? And we know this for certain?
But anyway... I'm from a family of LEOs and lawyers, and we think about some things a little different than normal people. My first thought was that some random clerk at ebay is now the decider of a seller's intent? Should ebay investigate every raw coin's history? Most of the coins in my 7070 were cracked out - was I supposed to document the TPG's opinion of grade and be bound by it should I choose to sell one on ebay? How many times here on CCF has a TPG's opinion been debated? TPG's like PCGS are famous for making HUGE errors, even slabbing fakes, so how can ebay rule based on someone else's questionable opinion? Some treading lightly might be advised here.
But anyway... I'm from a family of LEOs and lawyers, and we think about some things a little different than normal people. My first thought was that some random clerk at ebay is now the decider of a seller's intent? Should ebay investigate every raw coin's history? Most of the coins in my 7070 were cracked out - was I supposed to document the TPG's opinion of grade and be bound by it should I choose to sell one on ebay? How many times here on CCF has a TPG's opinion been debated? TPG's like PCGS are famous for making HUGE errors, even slabbing fakes, so how can ebay rule based on someone else's questionable opinion? Some treading lightly might be advised here.
And yes, we often disagree with the TPGs but IMHO the problem is with a small subset of people who knowingly rip people off. Not the ones who see a details slab that is from a wipe a long time ago and disagree with it; I am talking about the ones who crack out something that has been scrubbed and has no numismatic value, use deceptive photography and software to create the appearance of value. 
