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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2404777, member: 76863&quot;]There are a lot of factors that go into their success that goes well beyond&nbsp; just blaming newer and younger collectors as being lazy. </p><p><br /></p><p>The most obvious difference is that the younger collectors and the next generation of collectors have had TPGs during their entire collecting career thus they are more likely to use them.&nbsp; We see these same kind of usage biases many places in life such as computers, cell phones, social media ect.&nbsp; People that spent a large portion of their life without a certain service are less likely to use something than someone who has had it around their entire life.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The two other major things are liquidity, and doing what one can to protect their investment.&nbsp; In the internet age most things need to be slabbed to sell quick unless you are willing to take pennies on the dollar.&nbsp; With society in general now everything is appraised by third parties why should coins be any different considering the cost of a lot of them?&nbsp; People will disagree with TPG grades on various coins, but at least someone else took a look at it and gave an opinion that provides a bit of protection as opposed to depending entirely on the word of someone who the better they make the coin sound to you the more money they will make.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This doesn&#039;t mean there aren&#039;t people who blindly by anything, there are and they would still do that with a TPG or not.&nbsp; Are TPGs perfect, not nothing is that is run by humans but they are certainly a lot better than a free for all of dealers just saying whatever they want to jack up the prices.&nbsp; We see threads every day of dealers trying to get many grade levels up for slabs, they would be MUCH more successful with that if that coin was raw.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My point is basically that there are many reasons for why the TPGs have been so successful in this global increasingly internet based market we live in today.&nbsp; The TPGs and that internet market though are why I am not the least bit concerned that the hobby will continue to be enjoyed by future generations for quite some time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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