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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3202315, member: 76863"]There's very few posters I actually have a problem with. What I have a problem with is some of the attitudes being expressed with the bidders are clueless, this is a 65 at best, them thinking they can grade better just from a picture, them thinking they can grade better than the multiple experts who have commented on it on CU who actually saw it and pretty much all of them are fine with the grade ect. There's a problem when people are saying things like it doesn't matter if I've seen it or not. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes grading is just an opinion, but some opinions are worth far more than others. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If we're doing hypothetical what happens when it upgrades the first time by Joe Schmo or they get a windfall profit grade on their submission? That can and does happen. A lot of times it can be as simple as timing. They're tight right now, more frequent submitters know that were the average joe may not especially if they believe what some people claim online. I wouldn't be trying crackouts right now until their grading normalizes a bit more from the conservative swing they took. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Someone has already said they made an offer on that coin in the past at 8-10k when the seller was asking almost 20k so clearly others feel it is a special coin as well. As far as other dealers, most of them act like half dollars ended with Walkers and very few really pay any attention to more modern issues. There's a reason why there used to always be stories of their franklin mint sets getting cherry picked because they were just happy to sell something they considered to be modern. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as gold stickers, they're crazy hard to get especially at that level. I'm not surprised it didn't have a gold sticker.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3202315, member: 76863"]There's very few posters I actually have a problem with. What I have a problem with is some of the attitudes being expressed with the bidders are clueless, this is a 65 at best, them thinking they can grade better just from a picture, them thinking they can grade better than the multiple experts who have commented on it on CU who actually saw it and pretty much all of them are fine with the grade ect. There's a problem when people are saying things like it doesn't matter if I've seen it or not. Yes grading is just an opinion, but some opinions are worth far more than others. If we're doing hypothetical what happens when it upgrades the first time by Joe Schmo or they get a windfall profit grade on their submission? That can and does happen. A lot of times it can be as simple as timing. They're tight right now, more frequent submitters know that were the average joe may not especially if they believe what some people claim online. I wouldn't be trying crackouts right now until their grading normalizes a bit more from the conservative swing they took. Someone has already said they made an offer on that coin in the past at 8-10k when the seller was asking almost 20k so clearly others feel it is a special coin as well. As far as other dealers, most of them act like half dollars ended with Walkers and very few really pay any attention to more modern issues. There's a reason why there used to always be stories of their franklin mint sets getting cherry picked because they were just happy to sell something they considered to be modern. As far as gold stickers, they're crazy hard to get especially at that level. I'm not surprised it didn't have a gold sticker.[/QUOTE]
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