2x2 Flip Pet Peeves

If it is not "pretty blue or black polished steel" and pre-2005, I won't touch it.

 

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I saw a checkbox option, too, where you can pay a small fee of I believe $3 or so to get the OGP returned to you. I believe it was on the upper right hand corner of NGC's form.

I called them recently and they told me that if you check that box and you don't have OGPs, they won't charge you if you want your flips back. Their accounting department will adjust the billing for you, especially if you're using the online fillable form.

 

WOW, now that's REAL customer service! Charging money to send your original packaging back. Guess the #1 grading service (some may say #2) can get away with that! I know that much of the time, other grading services just send packaging back (like 2X2's with cost codes) if asked - and sometimes if not asked.

Wonder what the top services do with the Special Set packaging the Mint uses for SE and Presidential dollar issues w/the medals? Anyone know?

 

When I submitted the 2006 20th Anniversary SAE's, it was required that they remain in the unopened shipping material because the Burnished SAE could be purchased separately from the Mint. NGC did not charge for the return of the OGP.

Chris

 

It wasn't that many years ago that the TPG's DIDN'T return the holders at all, even if you requested them

 

I have never seen anything saying to use stickers. This picture from their website, which tells you how to prepare the coins, appears to use paper inserts. This is what I have always done.

 

that's hot( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

Judging by the order it's written and the center-ish label position, I think what NGC was getting at is a sticker label. But, I don't see how they'd dismiss coins for submission based on a paper insert label.

 

Me it's a sig sauer. And it's next to the bed not under. a 12 ga is under tho

 

I used to have a 28' anaconda that I kept in the coin room. To feed it, I just put a live pig in the adjoining room to lure the snake out of the coin room. The snake was pretty docile once it was fed. One morning, I found a tennis shoe in the coin room. It wasn't mine!

Chris

 

Coin World did this test at least a decade ago. If I recall, ICG (When James Taylor owned it so modern ICG is different) won the test and ICG advertised the results lots. Anyway, it may be time for another test. Coin World sponsored the previous one and the coins were sent to each service. Took a few months to get all the results.

Now for some humor: One of my seminar instructors stated that when he first began teaching grading classes there were several times that the first students to grade the coin were grading it Uncirculated;yet by the time it reached the students at the back of the class they were calling it AU-58. AND THEY ALL WERE CORRECT!
Back then, Unc = No trace of wear. By the time the coin passed through the hands of 25-30 students it had developed "a trace of wear". Now the ANA clases grade coins in slabs with the grade covered.