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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ajm229, post: 91423, member: 3350&quot;]Speedy, the grading companies are obviously making some sort of a profit on the encapulation of coins, or else they would not be in business. Even if they raise the price from $25/$15/$9 as you quoted below to something like $30/$20/$12 or so, and did encapsulate everything, they would STILL be making a profit on everything, AFTER all of their fees. Especially with what I would speculate would be an increase in the number of submittals of coins for encapsulation. So looking at the fees for electricity/wages for employees/slabs/sealing system/etc to say that that&#039;s a poor grounds for slabbing everything is not logical nor relevant. The grading comanies will still be able to maintain business. They&#039;re making profits right now on encapsulations (and I do not include fees obtained from bodybagged coins in this statement), and they will continue to do so if they slabbed everything.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sure they do. Not with a numerical grade, perhaps, but they still have to take the time to look at it and determine it&#039;s authenticity, both steps in the grading process IMO. But that&#039;s just semantics, so we&#039;ll drop it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Which is totally fine, though I think that if you looked into the idea of slabbing everything a little more, I think IMO that you would find that it&#039;s not such a bad idea. It would give people the chance to really 100% know exactly what they&#039;re looking at in a coin. 95% of the time, I can&#039;t tell a cleaned coin from an uncleaned one, or a dipped one from a non-dipped. That&#039;s because I&#039;m still learning, but it would be helpful to be able to know that while I am learning to recognize it, I&#039;ll be able to have points of reference to guide me through the encapsulation of coins that had been cleaned. It would serve both as a guide for what people are buying and a learning tool for some of us. And like I said, it doesn&#039;t hurt you or the numismatic community at all to switch from grading only non-problem coins to grading and encapsulating everything, except for a possible slight increase in submittal fees to TPGs. If you (or whomever else) don&#039;t want those coins in your collection anyway, then you simply don&#039;t purchase them, exactly as you have been doing. And those that want blast-white but cleaned coins who don&#039;t care, they can get them. No harm done!</p><p><br /></p><p>~AJ[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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