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<p>[QUOTE="Merc Crazy, post: 1303921, member: 27417"]Let me be clear here...</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not ragging on CAC for their policies regarding coins, I'm ragging on their policies regarding submissions. If they truly wanted to be customer friendly, they wouldn't just restrict entry into their program to "ANA members in good standing," they'd let any coin collector submit, without regards to them being overburdened or not... It only takes 20-30 seconds to look at a coin in-hand and decide what the grade should be, so if you average that out, on the high end, in an 8-hour workday, you're looking at 4800 coins per week. Assume 2/3rds come from dealers, and 1/3 from collectors, and that 1/2 of what collectors submit sticker, and you're looking at about $39k worth per week in submissions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Newer collectors have basically been foresaken by CAC due to their policies. IE; I didn't seriously start to collect my series of choice until appx June of 2011, in PCGS OGH holders... due to the time I got into this particular niche of the market, I cannot submit any of my coins to CAC without using a dealer as a middleman.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Merc Crazy, post: 1303921, member: 27417"]Let me be clear here... I'm not ragging on CAC for their policies regarding coins, I'm ragging on their policies regarding submissions. If they truly wanted to be customer friendly, they wouldn't just restrict entry into their program to "ANA members in good standing," they'd let any coin collector submit, without regards to them being overburdened or not... It only takes 20-30 seconds to look at a coin in-hand and decide what the grade should be, so if you average that out, on the high end, in an 8-hour workday, you're looking at 4800 coins per week. Assume 2/3rds come from dealers, and 1/3 from collectors, and that 1/2 of what collectors submit sticker, and you're looking at about $39k worth per week in submissions. Newer collectors have basically been foresaken by CAC due to their policies. IE; I didn't seriously start to collect my series of choice until appx June of 2011, in PCGS OGH holders... due to the time I got into this particular niche of the market, I cannot submit any of my coins to CAC without using a dealer as a middleman.[/QUOTE]
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