Then you're saying the NGC article, and factual proof presented therein, are all wrong.
Then submit to PCGS from here on in. They're giving out higher grades anyways. :)
I've never felt so old. :(
To be fair, it could just as easily have been a blind-drunk operator. "DUI" didn't exactly exist yet in 1857. :)
In some cases, five times as many as in the previous twenty years combined. That's how many. If their business had grown that much, they'd be...
Nice. Don't touch it. :)
He just accused PCGS of rampant deliberate gradeflation over a specific period of time, and backed it up with facts. I dunno how much harder you...
Holy cow. He's got other stuff besides just pork hanging in the smokin' shed. :)
Or, it could mean Mark Salzberg just took PCGS out back of the woodshed. Which he did. :)
There are issues where it wouldn't be surprising if half or more of the "population" are crackouts.
The spotty look of the reverse has me a little doubtful, and the bidding is edging into the price range where I want it already in a righteous...
Unfortunately, for both of them these days that seems to mean partly "What the actual **** were they thinking? :rage: " and partly "Oooooh, I'm...
There are situations where that's an appropriate solution....
Ain't no big thing; it's just sometimes amusing how, as fast as we try to move, the Internet usually gets there first. :)
True. Continuity and experience are absolute prerequisites in this niche, and all that chaos ten years ago did not help either company.
That's wonderful. You've proven yourself to be a serious scholar in your specialty, and its to your credit that a major publication has recognized...
ICG was very much an unwilling victim of that situation. They have their problems as well, but they didn't ask to get the rug pulled out from...
Yeah, well, before you become thankful just don't forget my tendency to wax pedantic.... :P
I diddled the seller's images a bit. Only had to alter the Yellow color channel, which strongly hints it's only a white balance issue and chances...
Well, consider that the destruction of PCGS would put some really capable, experienced people into the job market, and an existing TPG would be...
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