In response to Sarah's Coins, yes I am listening....

Mr. Cooper,

I read your journal entry and am confussed!? Ebay has a policy that clearly states and I quote,

"Listings for certified coins must include images showing the full front and back sides of the authentication slab."

If Ebay has this policy, and you do not follow it, the question is why?

It's not hard to post the photos. It's not hard to post 2 or 3 photos in an auction.

I am sure you are one of the better sellers on Ebay, as you stated about your 100% return policy. But how do we the public protect ourselves from the less than honest sellers?

What good would it do me if I sent my money to you, receive a fake slab and wanted to return it? You're 100% return policy might not work then? Would it!

Bad sellers are on Ebay. They sell fake slabs. So if I see your auction and only see part of a slab, I guess I and most Ebayer's will be cautious about you as a seller. How can we not?

You must know about the recent rash of counterfeit slabs appearing on Ebay. You must know about the visual safety features that NGC and PCGS have put into slabs. You must of read the trade magazines and the news of the United States Customs agency, PCGS and NGC working together with reputable coin dealers in trying to clean up this mess!

Should you, as one of the good sellers, show the entire slab? Maybe then more buyers would feel better about your, cropped and cut and pasted coin photos!?

If I want to protect myself and buy a coin, seeing the entire slab is a benefit. Or am I wrong?

You mention about the Ebay monopoly and how they only allow certain slabs. You talk about the legal issues they are in. May I ask what that has to do with me? I only want to protect myself from buying a fake coin/slab on Ebay?

My only purpose of posting is to inform the Collector's here and see if we can nudge Ebay to follow through on there own policy? If everyone on Ebay showed the entire slab, less fakes would sell! If everyone "reported the sellers" who do not show the pictures, then again less fakes would sell!

I think you are upset about the legal issues you stated? Are you one of those 3rd party grading companies who want to sell on Ebay? If so I think that is great! But that is not the point here!

But in asking sellers to post a picture of the "full slab" is not "common sense or cents", what is?