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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7844658, member: 24314&quot;]baseball21, posted: &quot;That may be part of it, but the simple fact is that they would be devaluing their own brand doing other service <i><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)"><b>[This is ABSOLUTE NOSENSE. </b></span></i><span style="color: #006633"><b>THE COIN </b></span><i><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)"><b>IS WHAT JOHN GRADES and offers to buy NOT THE SLAB! </b></span></i><span style="color: #b30000">I&#039;m 100% sure you remember a time when two TPGS and their customers thought it would &quot;devalue the brand&quot; if they graded problem coins and moderns. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; They were dragged kicking and screaming to provide what other TPGS were doing&nbsp; already</span><span style="color: #000000">.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />] </span>There&#039;s already a gap with PCGS CAC and NGC CAC and that gap would be even larger if they did other services.&nbsp; [<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <span style="color: #b30000">What&#039;s this have to do with anything?&nbsp; Just as a PCGS bean is generally worth more than an NGC bean to many; an IGC/ANA bean would be worth less yet more than a coin w/o the bean].&nbsp; </span>It would be a very bad look for them to have PCGSS/NGC bids and then separate ones for the other services as you would be buried paying PCGS/NGC prices for those.&nbsp; [<span style="color: #b30000">Simply add more bids.&nbsp; The folks involved in the TPGS &quot;web&quot; know the actual reasons only two services are &quot;beaned.&quot;]&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p><p><br /></p><p>Not to mention CAC was always supposed to be for expensive coins, collector interest is what ended up getting the cheaper coins stickered.&nbsp; The overwhelming majority of expensive coins are in PCGS/NGC.&quot; [<span style="color: #b30000">With and w/o &quot;beans.&nbsp; There is a simple reason <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> for this&quot;</span>]&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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