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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1505327, member: 15309&quot;]OMG, this is the most anti-TPG coin forum in the history of coin forums.&nbsp; If you are taking the term &quot;raw&quot; as derogatory, then you really need some help.&nbsp; What term would you like people to use?&nbsp; It is simply a term to differentiate the unslabbed from the slabbed.&nbsp; There is no malicious intent, only your paranoia.&nbsp; Nobody is attacking you or your coins!&nbsp; You are the one who is on the crusade against anything in plastic and anybody who buys plastic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, buying graded coins has not lessened the average collector&#039;s ability to grade coins.&nbsp; That is another fallacy that you continue to propagate with absolutely no evidence to support your claim in your attempt to disparage the TPG&#039;s.&nbsp; There were &quot;lazy&quot; collectors before the TPG&#039;s and there are &quot;lazy&quot; collectors now.&nbsp; You want us to believe that there are people who would spend the time to learn how to grade if the TPG&#039;s didn&#039;t exist but refuse to learn how to grade because the TPG&#039;s already do it for them.&nbsp; I&#039;m not buying it.&nbsp; There are people who find the educational aspect of the hobby interesting and want to learn as much as they can along the way.&nbsp; There are also people who just want to spend money and collect shiny pieces of metal because they like them and are not intrigued by the intricacies or history of the hobby.&nbsp; The existence of the TPG&#039;s does not move collectors from one group to another.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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