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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 159389, member: 112&quot;]Well yes and no. Many get upset when a coin is bodybagged and returned unslabbed. They think that unless the coin is slabbed and graded that they didn&#039;t get what they paid for. But the truth of the matter is that they did get what they paid for - they paid for the opinion of the grading company and they got it whether the coin was slabbed or not. </p><p><br /></p><p>The grading companies still have to process the coin through their system, they have to pay the rent etc for their facility, they have to pay the folks who open the packages and pass them on to the graders, they have to pay the graders &amp; authenticators and they have to pay the folks who re-package the coins and send them back. Everybody involved does their job and they are entitled to be paid for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whenever a person submits a coin for grading they do so knowing full well that the coin will be bodybagged if it does not measure up to the criteria established by the grading company. And yes I can understand them being upset if a coin that they paid a substantial sum for is returned in a bag with a note that says harshly clened or altered coin or even counterfeit coin. But that&#039;s not the grading comany&#039;s fault - it&#039;s their own fault for buying such a coin. And in such cases what you are doing is paying the grading company to tell you - oooops, you made a mistake. And that in my opinion is much more valuable than the slabbed coin could ever be, for you have just been educated.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s where the books and learning how to determine such things yourself come into play - so that you can recognize a harshly cleaned, altered or counterfeit coin and not buy it in the first place. And so that you can learn how to grade accurately so that you do not overpay for a coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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