Ebay is Getting Better

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Posted By: Marc S.

Yes, Ebay is not obligating anyone to get their coins graded. But it seems a little bizarre that raw coin dealers cannot assert their own grade if the card is raw. It's annoying for potential customers -- as they have to click-through to see if the coin is ultra-high grade, high grade, collecting grade, or full of scratches and divots.

Imagine in Ebay's pre-war category if you could only have a grade listed if the card was graded by PSA or SGC. There are many dozens of cards I wouldn't look at because of the annoyance factor.

As to Tony's latest point -- I have increasinly little sympathy for collectors who are willing to be newbies, stepping up and spending thousands of dollars on coins, cards or whatever collectible it is, without doing any due diligence on such investments. Yes -- there are always scum out there that try to take advantage of people...but there are an equal amount of fools that have seemingly large pots of money to expend, do no background research in the process, and then cry foul when they found out they were had.