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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1917584, member: 4626&quot;]I&#039;ve heard that opinion repeated often without much justification for why people hold it.&nbsp; I&#039;ve even posted pics of ANACS graded coins here without telling people ANACS graded them, and lo and behold, the opinions people have of the coins&#039; grades are quite often the same as theirs.&nbsp; This whole downgrading of their reputation strikes me as basically a self-fulfilling prophecy; people believe their reputation to be bad thus they disregard stuff they graded, giving them a further bad reputation.&nbsp; Despite the fact nobody ever provides any solid evidence for why their grading opinions are worse than anyone else&#039;s; they just declare that they have a lower reputation without giving any evidence as to why that should be.&nbsp; You have to at least concede they&#039;re quite a step up from no-name self-graders.&nbsp; PCGS and NGC are by no means infallible either; there&#039;s a thread going on right now where NGC didn&#039;t even label the slabs correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yeah, I get what I pay for; which is a grading opinion and a coin that is decently preserved and protected, and easier to store.&nbsp; I don&#039;t take it as a given that their opinion is provably worse than anyone else&#039;s (because no offense, the people here must have just as bad of an ability at grading as they do, considering how often they agree with ANACS&#039; opinions when they don&#039;t know who graded the coin lol... and besides, all opinions, including those of TPGs, are by definition subjective.).&nbsp; As for investment potential well, read my signature.&nbsp; &quot;Waste of money&quot; is subjective, and as far as I&#039;m concerned, paying extra money to get a coin graded by a TPG with a better reputation is a waste of money when I never intend on ever reselling the coin if I can help it.&nbsp; I&#039;d rather spend that money on more coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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