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<p>[QUOTE="USS656, post: 178308, member: 6641"]<span style="color: black">Have you ever filed a lawsuit? It is expensive, lengthy, and not always a winning proposition.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black">The collectors should take charge and sooner rather than later. People should not just let this continue because of 20 years of bad business. Within a year or two of the change it would probably settle down to a manageable issue and moving forward everyone would be much better off. The TPG's would probably recover any losses pretty quickly if they acted less like former President Clinton and more like a business that wanted to survive under a new set of rules. I can see some less reputable businesses going bankrupt but that probably happens on a regular basis anyways.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black">The market determins value and the good dealers and smarter collectors know which grading companies are loose and which are not. As a seller you were only going to get what the market really preceived it to be worth regardless of the grade by the TPG. If you bought it with a grade higher than the actual then you probably did not know enough about coins or do your due diligence before you bought it. Some of the blame would squarly lie on the buyer/collector/dealer that got taken. Coins are investments and some are riskier than others and not all investments work out.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="USS656, post: 178308, member: 6641"][COLOR=black]Have you ever filed a lawsuit? It is expensive, lengthy, and not always a winning proposition.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black] [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]The collectors should take charge and sooner rather than later. People should not just let this continue because of 20 years of bad business. Within a year or two of the change it would probably settle down to a manageable issue and moving forward everyone would be much better off. The TPG's would probably recover any losses pretty quickly if they acted less like former President Clinton and more like a business that wanted to survive under a new set of rules. I can see some less reputable businesses going bankrupt but that probably happens on a regular basis anyways.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] [COLOR=black]The market determins value and the good dealers and smarter collectors know which grading companies are loose and which are not. As a seller you were only going to get what the market really preceived it to be worth regardless of the grade by the TPG. If you bought it with a grade higher than the actual then you probably did not know enough about coins or do your due diligence before you bought it. Some of the blame would squarly lie on the buyer/collector/dealer that got taken. Coins are investments and some are riskier than others and not all investments work out.[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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