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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 316107, member: 4626&quot;]Honestly, I&#039;m with you on that one.&nbsp; However if people want to pay for a service that they feel is worth their money, that&#039;s there perogative and it doesn&#039;t bother me any, even if I don&#039;t think the service is worth paying for myself.&nbsp; However, anyone else out there think the hobby would be better off if prfessional TPG&#039;s just ceased to exist?&nbsp; I mean, &lt;gasp&gt; that would force collectors to actually become educated about coins they buy and sell without depending on someone else&#039;s opinion which no matter how studied they become at grading, will still only be an opinion.&nbsp; An opinion which may not even be consistent withing the same grading company, or for that matter, even the same grader.&nbsp; Remind me again why a grading service is worth spending any money for?&nbsp; Personally I&#039;d rather use the money I&#039;d otherwise spend on grading services or whatever amount of money people add to the price on slabbed coins, on coins instead.&nbsp; If a coin has questionable authenticity, I have no problem paying for an expert to determine if it&#039;s genuine or not, but as to what condition the coin is in, that I&#039;ll use my eyes for.&nbsp; I might not know what a coin grades on some 70 point scale but I can tell for myself whehter I want to spend money on a given coin or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eh, don&#039;t want to go on an anti-TPG rant but I still don&#039;t understand why anyone cares whether any given grading companies standards go up, down, or sideways.&nbsp; It&#039;s ultimately just an opinion, and all opinions are by definition, subjective.&nbsp; Who&#039;s to say whehther a company is right or wrong by tightening or loosening standards?&nbsp; A coin&#039;s grade isn&#039;t engraved on the coin anywhere.&nbsp; It&#039;s just an opinion, and nothing more, that a given coin is of a given grade, and always will be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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