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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 4154660, member: 76863"]In a perfect world the rate would be 0, but we don't live in a perfect world and nothing humans do will ever be perfect. There is always going to some rate of error for anything, even space shuttles crashed and they had entire government agencies and many of the smartest people on the planet working on them with a basically unlimited budget. </p><p><br /></p><p>The best we can hope for is for the error rate to be as small as possible and right now it is at a very minuscule percentage. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Overblown in the sense of the threat they currently pose. Of course they're there, but their prevalence and how good they are is often overblown. You can find countless posts of people swearing you have to stay away from eBay entirely as it's all scammers which is far from the truth as just one example. The better versions of the fake slabs are all older versions and basically just one or two types of the older PCGS and NGC slabs. </p><p><br /></p><p>Realistically it just isn't that hard for people to avoid fake slabs at this point with a little common sense about. </p><p><br /></p><p>That said nothing is going to stop people that abandon logic and get greedy thinking they're getting a great deal or that don't do any checking and just blindly believe someone that's taking them for a ride.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 4154660, member: 76863"]In a perfect world the rate would be 0, but we don't live in a perfect world and nothing humans do will ever be perfect. There is always going to some rate of error for anything, even space shuttles crashed and they had entire government agencies and many of the smartest people on the planet working on them with a basically unlimited budget. The best we can hope for is for the error rate to be as small as possible and right now it is at a very minuscule percentage. Overblown in the sense of the threat they currently pose. Of course they're there, but their prevalence and how good they are is often overblown. You can find countless posts of people swearing you have to stay away from eBay entirely as it's all scammers which is far from the truth as just one example. The better versions of the fake slabs are all older versions and basically just one or two types of the older PCGS and NGC slabs. Realistically it just isn't that hard for people to avoid fake slabs at this point with a little common sense about. That said nothing is going to stop people that abandon logic and get greedy thinking they're getting a great deal or that don't do any checking and just blindly believe someone that's taking them for a ride.[/QUOTE]
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