PCGS slabs new "corn cob pipe variety"?

Sigh.....some people have all the luck!
My coins always go to the overly strict grader who has a chip on his shoulder and wants to get back at the world one under-grade at a time :-(

 

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Better than snuff juice.

 

I think the graders at pcgs were smoking something in a pipe that day. I've noticed pcgs will straight grade coins with old toned over scratches often times and ngc will not

 

Scratches are one thing.. graffiti is another

 

EXACTLY! This is me. Only, even in a straight holder, no one will pay for this coin because they can all see it so clearly.
BUT, I think PCGS these days are grading a point under on nice coins in hopes to make more money on regrades. It's a big game for them - ensuring their financial future.

 

With the side benefit of driving CAC out of business, because if everything they slab can get a Bean, nobody will feel they need CAC any longer. Then they can lather, rinse, repeat.

TPG's are offering a *ton* of reasons these days why they are a system which needs to be changed.

 

I was at the Tampa FUN show and spoke with 2 dealers. Every coin they bid on at the Heritage auctions were ones they thought would upgrade for a BIG jump in value. One of them told me he spent over $100,000 in PCGS fees in 2015 alone, and business was good. UNREAL!!!

 

I wouldn't have any objection to that - TPG's provide a vital layer of trustworthy (theoretically) authentication and consistent (theoretically) grading - except that they seem to have realized they're for-profit institutions and have, like most of business, abandoned everything except the bottom line as a business goal.

 

The coin is sold

 

To someone whose glasses are thicker than mine