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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 3156706, member: 13650&quot;]I don&#039;t know why these threads pop up all the time.&nbsp; What&#039;s the alternative?&nbsp; Should we hope that they go away and expect everybody to be experts in judging fakes and cleaned coins?&nbsp;&nbsp; More people would probably leave the hobby than join if the TPGs went away now IMO.&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#039;s just a reliable, professional ,3rd party opinion to help with sales and values.&nbsp; The slabs are a convenient, attractive, safe way to protect, catalog and permanently register them.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I think the costs are excessive but if they were cheap, everybody would send everything in, including a whole bunch of crap that has no business being graded which would bog them down and make the process slower than it already is.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s high but doable if you just have to send something in.&nbsp;&nbsp; Over time, I suspect business may slow down for them as just about everything that should be sent in is and most stuff that hasn&#039;t been sent in for grading probably never will be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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