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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 221420, member: 4626&quot;]Can&#039;t say I completely disagree with you on that.&nbsp; However to use an analogy, anyone can learn how to clean their carpet and do it themselves, while some prefer to pay someone in the carpet cleaning profession to do it for them.&nbsp; Nothing wrong with either option really.&nbsp; If you decide to use a grading service, IMO ANACS rates pretty well for the reasons I mentioned.&nbsp; But I think any serious collecter would want to learn enough about coins to avoid using <i>any</i> grading service!&nbsp; Despite the fact that I personally avoid using them (I rarely buy graded coins, except when I want assurance of the coin&#039;s authenticity or I find a graded coin for sale for no more than that same coin would cost raw, and I almost never send coins to be graded) I don&#039;t fault grading services for earning money by supplying a service people are willing to pay for... I don&#039;t see that as unfairly taking advantage of anyone.&nbsp; I do agree that a big part of their appeal is to people who don&#039;t know (and might not want to learn) how to figure out grades for themselves.&nbsp; However, I don&#039;t see that as any worse than a restaurant that makes money preparing food&nbsp; for people who can&#039;t, or don&#039;t want to, cook their own food.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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