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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 602, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Whining for Dollars</b></p><p><br /></p><p>What happened was something like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>A dealer would approach Rick Montgomery on the floor and start whining.&nbsp; &quot;Look at this.&nbsp; It&#039;s overgraded. ... whine whine whine&quot; and Rick Montgomery would take the coin and have it looked at again and usually it would be put into a new holder with the right grade and whatever else had to be done -- like money changing hands -- would happen and the dealer would be happy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, PCGS is the Number One grading service.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, other companies simply maintained that they do not make mistakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, all companies looking forward to the day after tomorrow have some sort of policy to guarantee their grades or their re-grades or whatever.&nbsp; But PCGS&#039;s lead is well-established and well-maintained.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone makes mistakes.&nbsp; Grading is subjective.&nbsp; On RCC, BiggFredd has referred to the many egregious misgradings by &quot;leading companies&quot; that&nbsp; he has posted links to.&nbsp; He says that the apologists resort to special pleadings.&nbsp; Maybe they do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Essentially, all grading companies have the same strengths and weaknesses.&nbsp; (Grading is subjective.)&nbsp; What makes one superior to another is not always measurable if you look at it from outside the box.&nbsp; Within the context of the numismatic markets, the measures are there in dollars and cents and that makes them real enough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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