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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 527366, member: 13650&quot;]bhp:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I don&#039;t believe it would be in their best interests to give out artificial grades to make submitters happy.&nbsp; Look at ICG and SGS.&nbsp;&nbsp; They&#039;re looked upon as third rate by most of the hobby because of their inflated grades.&nbsp; If PCGS and NGC lost as much credibility in the hobby, their sales will drop.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;They&#039;re not involved in the sale of what&#039;s submitted.&nbsp; They get paid the submission fee regardless of what gets sent out.&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#039;s called a third party.&nbsp; And the beauty of it is, you can still look at it for yourself and decide if it&#039;s an adequate coin for the grade!&nbsp; If it&#039;s not, you&#039;re allowed to pass on it!&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t&nbsp; care if people are willing to buy sight unseen.&nbsp; It&#039;s their money.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;d much rather live with their flaws than greedy, dishonest dealers saying raw coins are AU when it&#039;s EF, or taking pics under bad lighting for ebay and selling something 3 grades higher than it is.&nbsp; Maybe the TPGs will occasionally be off by a grade, but IMO, they don&#039;t miss it by 2-4 grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Not to mention the added protection of them checking authenticity.&nbsp;&nbsp; Question is, do you feel safer buying &#039;authentic&#039; coins from an old timer who&#039;s eye sight is going bad or a slab that has been viewed by not less than two or more professionals doing this for a living, with no vested interest whether or not it&#039;s authentic?&nbsp; &nbsp; With all the Chinese crap coming into the hobby annually?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; You can&#039;t tell me there aren&#039;t dealers who accidentally bought a raw fake, find out about it and decide to pass it along anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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