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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treylxapi47, post: 1724018, member: 41863&quot;]I think you are even better off going through ANA. Thats the route I went. I know you guys say to go to your LCS and use them, well here was my experience. </p><p><br /></p><p>I had a group of 5 coins to send off, so i trundled on down to my Local guy and ask him to ship these off for me. Granted I dont believe he does much for sending coins in, as he usually buys raw and sells raw, or buys graded and sells graded. I have never heard of him talking about shooting for better grades on anything, or cracking out and resubmitting. Plus his coin store is also a small antique store (i assume most coin store operators double in other fields like comics, stamps, antiques, etc), so i believe he just doesnt have time to focus exclusively on his coins when hes settling estates and finding coins, and antiques, and coordinating auctions, etc. Well when he sent these off to NGC i ended up with a final bill on 5 coins in the range of about $230. I was shocked, kept my mouth shut, paid my bill, and have never used him again for submitting. I <i>thought</i> coins were about $30 each to submit and didnt really have any sticker shock over that, but i did start researching a little bit when i got home. I then realized that i was completely ripped off and started looking for my own methods of submitting coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I submitted 5 more coins over at ANACS about 6 month later, and i was happy with their service for what it was. No membership fees and at least my coins were authenticated. That total was about $115 or so with a variety requested on a single coin. I didnt like the slabs though and so that was my last time submitting to ANACS. </p><p><br /></p><p>After that, i remembered someone mentioning you could send to NGC with an ANA membership. So i paid my $30 or $40 to ANA and again submitted 5 more coins. This time it only cost me the membership fee (which is a basic membership to ANA and sort of a basic membership to NGC, a 2-for-1 if you ask me) + about $120 for the submitting fee. This time I was happy with the price and the coins when they came back. Saved me $100 too for another coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>I dont know why my LCS took advantage me of that way, seems he tries to make money on EVERYTHING he does and just got me on my first time. But he also lost any of my future business too when it comes to submitting coins. I wouldve paid a convenience fee of $20 on my final bill, but nearly $100? I couldnt do it again. I still go to him for my silver or raw coin needs if im filling a Dansco, but I typically leave him alone on any real purchases. His prices are just too out of whack for me sometimes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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