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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 324567, member: 4626"]OK on those last two points at least I can agree with you lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>The perception is only reality for as long as people to perceive it to be so. I hope that people will in time learn that perception to be incorrect... I can't do that much about it except try to convince anyone who's willing to be convinced... I can however, refuse to buy into the hype personally, and I refuse to ever pay a TPG to grade a coin and I'll never buy a slabbed coin if I can help it. Only exception I'll make is if a coin is a potentially valuable one that is often faked... in which case I'm paying for authentication, not grading. (That I do believe is worth paying for, if done right.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I'd urge everyone here who agrees with me to do everything they can to put the TPGs out of business. Realistically I know they'll be sticking around for a while as long as people perceive them to have a service worth paying for. But don't buy into it, and convince anyone you can not to buy into it either. The hobby will be much better off without them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 324567, member: 4626"]OK on those last two points at least I can agree with you lol... The perception is only reality for as long as people to perceive it to be so. I hope that people will in time learn that perception to be incorrect... I can't do that much about it except try to convince anyone who's willing to be convinced... I can however, refuse to buy into the hype personally, and I refuse to ever pay a TPG to grade a coin and I'll never buy a slabbed coin if I can help it. Only exception I'll make is if a coin is a potentially valuable one that is often faked... in which case I'm paying for authentication, not grading. (That I do believe is worth paying for, if done right.) I'd urge everyone here who agrees with me to do everything they can to put the TPGs out of business. Realistically I know they'll be sticking around for a while as long as people perceive them to have a service worth paying for. But don't buy into it, and convince anyone you can not to buy into it either. The hobby will be much better off without them.[/QUOTE]
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