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Message:: [QUOTE="ajm229, post: 91288, member: 3350"]Spencer, the TPG's are the ones providing a service to us, and they will spend on average the same amount of time grading and slabbing a coin as they would grading and bodybagging one, so we are not then wasting anyone's time. We as budding and growing numismatists do indeed need to study for ourselves and not TRY to send in fakes, but I do think that the ones that are sent in need to be encapsulated like everything else. And yes, the graders need to make a living and they charge a fee for their service of grading and slabbing coins. They do not advertise in this manner: "Come pay $35.00 so that we can look at your coin, tell you it's fake, and then ship it back to you without returning your money." They advertise like this: "Send us your coin for $35.00 so that we can grade and slab it." They need to abide by that type of standard and grand and slab everything they get. Something else is, you said "why should they return that" (I assume you mean the fee) and I don't necessarily think they should. As I suggested, if the TPGs slab everything, then there's no need for them to return the fees. The slabs themselves are just plastic and probably don't cost more than a few cents on the dollar. The companies aren't losing much of anything by slabbing all the coins they get. ~AJ[/QUOTE]