PCGS forum deletes member accounts

I lurk, but I won’t join

 

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Just like here, the site is free and you don't have to join. I use the search function a lot. Like here, once you learn the function, there is a wealth of information. About 18 years of threads.
The sad part is the loss of images from the early days. Back then you had to have a host for your images and many of those host are gone.
The cost for the site was too great for them to save every image that was posted. We have it easy today. You just upload the image to the site and it's stored.
I see all the forums as a giant reference book.

 

Ha...... There is definitely a Stockholm Syndrome at play here.

 

As for being a member of a "free" site, there are many generous and good hearted people on this site who freely share their love of the hobby, experience and information which you can't put a price on. I and I'm sure many others on this site have given
large sums to charitable causes, and may not have a lot of spare money these days to donate to one of a number of sites they are members of. Most all of us have "paid our dues" no need to apologize not putting up a yearly ante.

 

Now what they do is "ghost" your account; if you are logged in to your account it looks like you are posting, but no one else can see it. I have seen them do this to numerous members there. Not banned, ghosted. You can still email other members, but when I check how many people saw my thread, it shows two.

 

I've got no interest in going back there, and consider it a childrens playground monitered by the lunch lady. There's a fight going on right now over one poster proclaiming the other thinks 9/11 was no big deal and the other claims he's a liar as he's a true patriot. Ridiculous. Lunch lady chimes in, hey it's Monday.
As for me, I got banned for PMing a member his customer service sucks. I'd bought an item, never got it nor any response through his website. Remembered he posts non stop so I pm'ed, he told his mamma and my 10 year run was over.
I lurk but beyond the amusing occassional Jerry Springer episodes there not much left.
As for the Orig Post, guys obsessed with hating on cats, which I think is strange as heck.

 

I lurk as well. There can be some good stuff posted, but no need to make an account to comment.

One of the things I find ridiculous, is one wealthier member in particular. They post some very expensive, very nice coins. Coins that only millionaires can buy. Well another member almost seems to troll him sometimes. Recently this wealthy member deletes all pictures he had posted because this other member wasnt stroking his ego like everyone else. It was interesting to see someone with that kind of clout in the coin world, someone with that kind of money, to throw such a tantrum. Oh and he has no problem showing pictures of his massive new home.

 

Just started reading this thread (on page 1 still) I checked both PCGS, and NGC, to see if my accounts were still active. They are, even though I haven't visited in a year or so. My question is, do they have minimum participation timeframes???

 

Hey, if you don't say anything, you aren't saying anything that offends them, right?

 

Not a tantrum, people just get sick of the trolling and baiting that some people like to engage in. Unfortunately a small number of people some of which still post there have chased A LOT of good posters off of various sites. There's a reason why the quality of posting has been going down on various forums. They want to have the internet be their kingdom and think they're having any major influence on the market they can have it, in the end it makes no difference and just isn't worth dealing with after a while.

 

I checked out the NGC forum last week. Talk about a ghost town. What happened to them?

 

I hang out some at the PCGS forum, though I mostly read and look. They do have quite a few people who need to remember “hey, it’s just coins.”

 

Ya Jnlanzapus is especially irritating and a bit much, even the lurkers are leaving. That dude could clear the room at an insurance seminar.

 

It’s been basically completely dead since they did the website revamp a while back and combined a lot of the categories into one

 

Details all day long.
Does anyone know if after grading, the coins could get accidentally mishandled, dropped, etc... especially by the employees that actually encapsulate the coins ?
It wouldn't be impossible to drop a coin here or there, and maybe scratch/damage it. And not report it to CYA (cover your...) I've seen a lot of "not me" (not reported) damage to products during the course of producing, and packaging the products.
Is there at least a last look by QC after being slabbed ?
Could your coin have gotten damaged after the grade has been assigned ?
But who would want to take the blame anyway ?
Okay, enough already.

 

They reorganized into one general and one ask NGC section. So everything got moshed together.

 

I complained to NGC and Lisa said that posters were still commenting away....You have to hand it to PCGS near Silicon Valley and all, they have the best coin site, they spent a lot of bucks on it.

All NGC would have to do is repeat the success of PCGS with their graphics and links working.

 

delete repeat

 

All caught up now.
Any Jerry Springer threads still active over there ?
C'mon someone please post a couple links.
They can't ban you for that can/will they.

 

I just read through this discussion from page one as I had forgotten all about it until it got bumped.

So, Mr.Type Please educate all of us. I would like you to tell us why you think the obverse of this coin you posted is over graded. Please address its strike, luster, number of marks, and what you think its commercial retail VALUE ($) should be. That should turn this discussion back to grading and get others (including me) to post their opinion also.

Thank you again! The real truth about the nonsense above:

That is why some services have the actual people who graded the coins also QC them in the slabs. Rarely, we may detect a fresh fingerprint that was not on the coin when it was finalized in the grading room.

 

I saw you post there. I didn't recognize your avatar, and was using quote function. Not to mention missing about 150 smileys.
JK.
You going incognito ???