How Experts Are Chosen
Expert review is a selective, governed process designed to improve listing accuracy without marketing or recruitment pressure.
Who experts are
- Long-term collectors of coins, banknotes, collectibles, and antiques.
- Category-specific specialists with deep domain focus.
- Not casual reviewers or general moderators.
How experts are selected
- Manual, selective evaluation.
- Assessed for experience, specialization, and judgment quality.
- No automatic or guaranteed selection.
Independence & conflict safeguards
- Experts do not review their own listings.
- Experts do not review items where conflicts exist.
- Experts are restricted to approved categories.
- Experts do not influence pricing, payouts, or outcomes.
What experts do / do not do
Experts do
- Verify listing accuracy.
- Flag inconsistencies.
- Approve or reject listings.
- Provide a non-binding estimated value range based on recent market data and comparable sold items, without changing or overriding the seller’s listed price.
Experts do not
- Set prices.
- Handle payments or refunds.
- Communicate directly with buyers or sellers.
- Make final enforcement decisions.
- Override, adjust, or enforce seller pricing based on their estimates.
Expert value range are informational only, derived from current market trends and comparable sold listings. Final pricing decisions always remain with the seller.
Accountability & oversight
- Expert actions are documented.
- Periodic quality reviews occur.
- Admins may override expert decisions.
- Expert access may be revoked if standards are breached.
Legal-safe clarification
- Expert review improves accuracy.
- It does not guarantee authenticity.
- It does not replace buyer research.
- Final purchase responsibility lies with the buyer, including independent verification where appropriate.
- Estimated value ranges are informational only and do not set listing prices.