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<p>[QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 1514390, member: 4920"]It goes beyond that, Doug. Your problem is, you're too diplomatic. People don't know how to grade these days because they don't want to know it. They don't want to know it because they get all their grades handed to them in slabs. It's not that they're stupid. Why learn how to grade? Give me one good reason. Tell me what I get back for that effort. And these people who don't want to know how to grade are going to hold these TPGs to their grades? Not hardly. </p><p><br /></p><p>Do you want to help? Teach people why they should know how to grade. And I'm not talking about taking the easy way out, there. Namely, "Oh, you should know how to grade, because, once in a blue moon, the TPGs will get a grade wrong!" That's not persuasive. The answer is, "You should know how to grade, because admiring the grade is the reason coin collectors are in this hobby." And, the corollary to that, "If you don't know how to grade, you're a commodities investor--get out of my face!" </p><p><br /></p><p>Teach people why they should know how to grade, make collectors out of these people these TPGs are making monkeys out of, and they'll do the rest, they'll straighten-out these TPGs; I predict...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 1514390, member: 4920"]It goes beyond that, Doug. Your problem is, you're too diplomatic. People don't know how to grade these days because they don't want to know it. They don't want to know it because they get all their grades handed to them in slabs. It's not that they're stupid. Why learn how to grade? Give me one good reason. Tell me what I get back for that effort. And these people who don't want to know how to grade are going to hold these TPGs to their grades? Not hardly. Do you want to help? Teach people why they should know how to grade. And I'm not talking about taking the easy way out, there. Namely, "Oh, you should know how to grade, because, once in a blue moon, the TPGs will get a grade wrong!" That's not persuasive. The answer is, "You should know how to grade, because admiring the grade is the reason coin collectors are in this hobby." And, the corollary to that, "If you don't know how to grade, you're a commodities investor--get out of my face!" Teach people why they should know how to grade, make collectors out of these people these TPGs are making monkeys out of, and they'll do the rest, they'll straighten-out these TPGs; I predict...[/QUOTE]
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