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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 469773, member: 13650"]Ruben,</p><p><br /></p><p> You're really, really starting to aggravate me. For some reason you can't get it through your head that the grading companies and CAC are using a grading system. They are grading, to the best of their ability using this system, <b>based on decades of experience, grading coins daily</b>. Nobody claims it is fool proof. But it's the best we have! This is the service you pay for. If these people can't accurately grade, than you, me, nobody should be attempting to grade anything! </p><p><br /></p><p> I never want to see you give your opinion on a coin's grade again. Because you think people that do this every day for a living can't accurately do it. So of what value is your opinion? Are you trying to tell me that my opinion and your opinion are MORE valuable? You're still allowed to give your opinion even if the coin is in a stickered slab and pass on it if you want. They either sell it to you or they don't. Let somebody else over-pay if you think it's that bad.</p><p><br /></p><p> This is no different than Beckett grading baseball cards. It's no different than GIA grading a diamond. <b>No single one is going to be exactly the same.</b> People are knowing and willing, to pay individuals who grade for a living every day, for their expert <b>OPINION</b>, and live with that <b>opinion</b>. That's all the claim ever was. Why is this so hard for you to understand? Why are you trying to get more out of it than that? What do you physically expect them to do in order to satisfy your argument?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 469773, member: 13650"]Ruben, You're really, really starting to aggravate me. For some reason you can't get it through your head that the grading companies and CAC are using a grading system. They are grading, to the best of their ability using this system, [B]based on decades of experience, grading coins daily[/B]. Nobody claims it is fool proof. But it's the best we have! This is the service you pay for. If these people can't accurately grade, than you, me, nobody should be attempting to grade anything! I never want to see you give your opinion on a coin's grade again. Because you think people that do this every day for a living can't accurately do it. So of what value is your opinion? Are you trying to tell me that my opinion and your opinion are MORE valuable? You're still allowed to give your opinion even if the coin is in a stickered slab and pass on it if you want. They either sell it to you or they don't. Let somebody else over-pay if you think it's that bad. This is no different than Beckett grading baseball cards. It's no different than GIA grading a diamond. [B]No single one is going to be exactly the same.[/B] People are knowing and willing, to pay individuals who grade for a living every day, for their expert [B]OPINION[/B], and live with that [B]opinion[/B]. That's all the claim ever was. Why is this so hard for you to understand? Why are you trying to get more out of it than that? What do you physically expect them to do in order to satisfy your argument?[/QUOTE]
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