CHGS Grading Company 100% Grade Guarantee

I started coinauctionshelp.com to help collectors learn about coins so they don't get ripped off online, particularly at ebay. Since the inception of ebay, people began selling coins as ebay "coin dealers". Some where legitimate dealers, in the business for a number of years, and honest about the coins they sold. However, there's a darker side to this ebay story, and it includes the greedy and unscrupulous individuals who soon learned how much money could be made with "smoke and mirrors" selling tactics, so to speak.

These unscrupulous sellers became a dime a dozen, and still are, but in different incarnations. At first, coin collectors, had to deal with doctored coins, and out right lies or omissions of the coin's condition, and terrible photography, but now collectors must chose and pick which coins in holders to buy.

With the advent of more advanced photo editing software, growth of the collecting base, and the shear number of ebay coin sellers, this problem has magnified to unmanageable proportions, and still is, but thanks to informational website, growing coin collector knowledge, ebay policy changes, and serious collectors and dealers taking action, these sellers have to be even more weary and tricky, to the point that it has become ridiculous.

You can visit ebay's site map, and select US Coins, then Morgan Dollars, and you will find 16,000 to 20,000 auctions for this coin series alone. Among these auctions, the experienced ebay buyer, can find auctions where the seller has altered their photos, sellers using light reflection to mask contact marks on the coin, fake and counterfeit coins without COPY, self slabber's coins that are over graded and cleaned coins, and lottery auctions where a buyer can purchase coins and not even know exactly what coins they will get, but they bid anyway, because 1 in every 1,000 feed backs another buyer said they found a key date.

Then you have sellers selling supposedly unsearched coin rolls, lots and collections, in an effort to entice buyers with claims of "Look what others have found", "See my feedback", "I did not search these coins", "A type coin reverse is showing at the end of the roll that could be rare, who knows what else you might find!", The best unsearched silver coin lot on ebay", and a myriad of other creative titles and description to garner the highest bids from ebay bidders.

If that isn't enough to "swim" through, ebay has a constant influx of new members that know very little about coins, only to get caught up in the hype, and buy from these sellers. It seems when one seller auctions are "dropped" or id banned, another takes their place, or they just sign up under another name, and the "game" continues. It's no wonder serious coin collectors and dealers are a bit disenchanted from their ebay experiences.

However, even with all of these over-hyped auctions, lies, and doctored coins and photos, one of the above problems remains a huge problem with ebay coins auctions. One that accounts for well over 25% of coins sold on ebay, and that problem is this: coins graded, placed in holders, with a label and a high grade assigned, by the coin's very owner, and without a grade guarantee, or moral or ethnical standards from the seller, and a disregard, by the seller, for the nation wide accepted grading standards.

The "self slabbers" or "Basement Grading Companies", as they have been correctly named, put problem coins in holders and over grade these coins, without a word on their true condition. A few others place modern coinage in the holders and assign them a perfect grade, this wouldn't be so bad if the perfect grade wasn't placed on every coin, it's just impossible to find that many to grade that high.

The sole purpose of selling coins, graded and labeled inappropriately, is to sell them for more than they are worth. Self Slabbers attempt to mimic and to trash the legitimate grading services so they can make their "grading service" appear as legitimate or better than the top tier grading service, and do so convincingly. The main argument they make "Grading is an opinion and not an exact science" and this is true to a point, but there is a common standard among the majority of dealers, numismatist and the top grading services, and self slabbing ebay companies ignore it.

I know this to be a fact because the number one search engine key word, that leads visitors to my website coinauctionshelp.com, is none other than INB. INB, or Numismatic Bureau, is a self slabbing company that grades their own coins to sell on ebay, and they over grade often. I know, because I have emails from their ebay buyers to prove it. SGS is another company that over grades modern and some type coins in the perfect grade, and ANGS blatantly grades cleaned coins, and over grades coins. It's a wonder they are still in business, but people never seem to learn.

Self Slabbers want you to believe that grading coins is only based in opinion, and that whatever collectors think the coin grades. It's a false assumption, and this claim is made by disenchanted sellers who want to take their piece of the "pie" and not earn it. They're often flagrant, manipulative, liars, angry, jealous, and are easily upset when they are questioned about their grading standard, or lack thereof.

On the flip side, PCGS, NGC, ANACS and ICG are the top grading services, and the only grading services that ebay will allow their acronym to be placed in a seller's auction title, and that is for good reason. It was ebay's response to the ever growing, self slabbing problem on their auction site. The decision to only allow these four names in auction titles came from much advice from around the knowledgeable coin collecting public, but namely the ANA. ANA is the leading coin collecting group in the world, that boast a knowledge base and membership like no other coin organization.

The inexperienced collector should take heed to this fact, and realize that this was a decision based on many years of research, and people being defrauded by deceptive auction titles. There's not a perfect solution, but this was a step in the right direction. So, collectors should make note of this when they click on an auction, see a coin in any other holder than the Top Four grading services because you just might be looking at an over graded coin, or even a coin that has been altered or cleaned.

One problem with PCGS, ANACS, ICG and NGC being the only acceptable certification services at ebay, is this leaves honest sellers in their wake. I don't mind this since ebay will allow me to place a picture of CHGS holder in my auctions. Also, not only will CHGS guarantee the grade on their label with a 100% money back guarantee, collectors will be able to obtain CHGS graded coins at a lower premium. CHGS guarantees their coins will grade the same if submitted to PCGS or any of the top tier grading services with a margin of error being one point difference on occasion. PCGS isn't perfect, CHGS isn't perfect and neither are any other grading company.

It's impossible with all the nuances of grading all the different types, mints and years of coinage for any one company to be 100% consistent. So don't believe it even if the most honest person you know and respect tells you differently, because they will be talking out of ignorance of the facts.

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