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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Morgandude11, post: 1591349, member: 37839&quot;]It is seemingly becoming the season for &quot;dead horse&quot; :dead-horse: threads--you know, those ideas that are repeated endlessly, and end up in volatile debate, leading to no resolution.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just wanted to voice one collector&#039;s opinion that they&#039;re really getting tired, and it would be nice to see them decrease in frequency.</p><p><br /></p><p>1)&nbsp; TPGs are terrible, and &quot;I can grade better than a TPG.&quot;&nbsp; Okay, well, if that is the case, then why are you taking time writing that here?&nbsp; Why aren&#039;t you buying up all the under graded coins that TPGs blow, resubmitting them, and selling them?&nbsp;&nbsp; Or, why don&#039;t you buy every single raw coin, and make money with your &quot;superior grading skills&quot; and do the same--become another Jack Lee, or some other millionaire dealer, and conquer the world. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>2) Toning debates.&nbsp; NT versus AT--people who say that once again, their abilities are superior to TPGs when it comes to identification of the same.&nbsp; Don&#039;t you think that NGC and PCGS has seen every trick in terms of artificial toning?&nbsp; Do you really think that you have more expertise in recognizing AT then they do, and you are an instant authority on &quot;market acceptability.&quot;</p><p>3) &quot;Grade this coin threads,&quot; where the coin is always under graded if you own it, and overgrazed if you don&#039;t own it.&nbsp; Now really, let&#039;s not personalize that so much.&nbsp; It should be a learning experience, and not an ego debate on whether or not someone can be an &quot;instant grader&quot; by just looking at a set of often inferior photographs.</p><p>4)&nbsp; &quot;I am going to buy cull Morgans, below melt,&quot; and make more money than the Hunt brothers did years ago.&nbsp; This has been tried yeas ago, and folks are still considering it.&nbsp; If so, perhaps you should just buy bullion silver and take your chances--or better still, go to Vegas and bet the &quot;pass/no pass line&quot;&nbsp; Also, isn&#039;t this contrary to the aim of the hobby, as young collectors can only afford worm Morgans, Barbers, and other coins that the speculators would happily melt for bucks?</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that I have often added my two cents on threads like this, and it has resulted in inflammatory debate.&nbsp;&nbsp; Might it be to our mutual advantage to minimize these types of threads that are guaranteed to produce the &quot;same ole&quot; results?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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