good idea, others should follow.

Saw this ad for SEGS. They label the top of the holder. Kind of handy if you keep your slabs in a slab-box. I wish the other TPG's would use this.

 

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ANACS did that before SEGS.

 

From the SEGS website...

"The SEGS coin holder features a top viewing label so unique it was granted US Patent No. D423,757."

 

Upon opening the thread, I thought to myself, they probably patented it and that's why PCGS/NGC haven't followed suit. lol

It is a great idea, and one of the things I hate about NGC/PCGS slabs -- you can't see what they are from the top.

 

What makes this so unique that it's patentable? Looks like something you "print at home" on an self adhering Avery label.

 

The fact that they patented it :yes:

 

They need to find some ad writers that can compose a sentence in proper English.

 

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Compugrade pioneered the top view labeled slabs in 1991. SEGS slabs have had the top view since they started in 1998 (How they managed to patent something that had already been done I don't know.) ANACS did not follow along with the top view slab until 2005.

 

First one to the patent office wins. That's how. :yes:

 

Yup, I'm willing to bet 99% of the patents shouldn't even be a valid patent because our patent system is screwed up. I could sneeze a certain way and get a patent.

 

What if PCGS or NGC were to put the label on the bottom?!?! Would it be that easy?

 

But then someone would patent the see through bottom slab holder so you'd have to hold it up to see which slab is which.

 

I expect that its the slab "design" (meaning the size and shape which allow the top reading label) thats patented and not the fact that you can tell what coins in the box.

IIRC, ANACS has a slab which slopes at the top enabling the viewer read the label. Two different slab "types" which enable the same thing.

 

So to have them confirm an attribution it costs $1. If the attribution is incorrect it costs $2.50. Can somebody explain this to me? Is this to prevent people from abusing their system?

 

A penalty for wasting their time by sending them something that is not what you think it is.

 

Ya know, maybe it's just me, but if someone wants me to take them seriously as a business, I expect them to copy-edit their advertisements. At least rent a few minutes from somebody proficient enough in English to understand the usage of "its" and "it's".

 

It takes more time and effort to determine what something is from among many different possibilities than it does to confirm if it is this one possibility, yes or no.

 

yes but they aren't confirming it from many different possibilities. They're still just either confirming or denying it from one possibility.