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<p>[QUOTE="Speedy, post: 240137, member: 705"]Girv,</p><p>What do you think about PCGS deciding not to hand out the MS70 grade even when they agree that the coin is really MS70? It has been posted here before how that when grading ASE PCGS will almost never give out the 70 grade because (now get this) the coin might get a milk spot later down the road and they would have to pay the differents in value. Now tell me this....does that mean that PCGS is better? Remember, undergrading a coin is just as bad as overgrading. Now people say that PCGS is so much better than NGC because NGC hands out many more MS70 and PF70's than PCGS. Now when thinking about what I've just said...who is right? NGC who gives the grade that the coin rightly deserves? or PCGS who is worried about maybe having to pay alittle?</p><p><br /></p><p>You see....you can make a company sound really good by offering something that is nothing but hog wash. I co-own a web hosting company and I've been asked about some of these hosting companies that offer such things as Unlimited monthly Bandwidth. Now once you get into all of the details you will find that no one can really have, or offer Unlimited Bandwidth. Bandwidth is limited...but yet some companies look at stats and decide that since most sites only use (and this is just a made up number) 1GB of bandwidth a month, they will offer "Unlimited" and no one will really know. Now are they right?...is it right to offer something that you don't really have...or is it right to offer something just to make yourself sound good?</p><p>This is kindof like the problem between NGC and PCGS....who is consistent....that has been the topic of many many threads here on CoinTalk.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speedy</p><p><br /></p><p>PS---I have emailed such companies as I talked about above and asked them if they would be willing to host a site that would take a few hundred GB's of bandwidth a month....I've never heard back from any of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Speedy, post: 240137, member: 705"]Girv, What do you think about PCGS deciding not to hand out the MS70 grade even when they agree that the coin is really MS70? It has been posted here before how that when grading ASE PCGS will almost never give out the 70 grade because (now get this) the coin might get a milk spot later down the road and they would have to pay the differents in value. Now tell me this....does that mean that PCGS is better? Remember, undergrading a coin is just as bad as overgrading. Now people say that PCGS is so much better than NGC because NGC hands out many more MS70 and PF70's than PCGS. Now when thinking about what I've just said...who is right? NGC who gives the grade that the coin rightly deserves? or PCGS who is worried about maybe having to pay alittle? You see....you can make a company sound really good by offering something that is nothing but hog wash. I co-own a web hosting company and I've been asked about some of these hosting companies that offer such things as Unlimited monthly Bandwidth. Now once you get into all of the details you will find that no one can really have, or offer Unlimited Bandwidth. Bandwidth is limited...but yet some companies look at stats and decide that since most sites only use (and this is just a made up number) 1GB of bandwidth a month, they will offer "Unlimited" and no one will really know. Now are they right?...is it right to offer something that you don't really have...or is it right to offer something just to make yourself sound good? This is kindof like the problem between NGC and PCGS....who is consistent....that has been the topic of many many threads here on CoinTalk. Speedy PS---I have emailed such companies as I talked about above and asked them if they would be willing to host a site that would take a few hundred GB's of bandwidth a month....I've never heard back from any of them.[/QUOTE]
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