CGC for grading

Although they claim to be very conservative, I see them selling their own notes - which makes me suspect about being a third-party grader.

This is the only site I could find for them: http://www.cgcnotes.com/

Any thoughts?

 

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any grading service that also engages in a market as a seller is clearly questionable AT BEST in terms of trustworthiness in my opinion.

 

They have slabbed some extremely rare and high-end notes. But I totally get what you are saying.

 

never heard of them. even if i did i wouldn't buy any notes graded by them. pass

 

I pass on them most of the time.

 

Yeah, funkee, that creates a conflict of interest. Either grade or deal, but don't do both.

 

PCGS and PMG are the only games in town any other grading company is suspect at best!~

 

When a dealer sells a raw coin, doesn't s/he grade it first? (Of course that would make it an FPG, First Party Grader.)

It seems like the site could be just hosting a F/S section for it's product.

 

For what it is worth....
When I sold my collections, I had selected Heritage Auctions. Any note that was not in a PMG or PCGS Holder was cut out and submitted for re-grading. That in itself should ring the bell loud and clearly.

 

That's true. But this is the qualifier. A FPG isn't purporting to be an unbiased grader, while a TPG is. To the degree a TPG deals in the notes or coins it, itself, grades, it loses that "unbiasedness."

 

Do you include ANACS in that judgement? If so, please explain. Thanks...

 

ANACS doesn't do paper I think