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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1882747, member: 112&quot;]Paul I have provided numerous examples of evidence so many times that I have lost count. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ahhhh -there&#039;s explanations for why they have loosened their grading standards. It doesn&#039;t matter that they admit they have loosened the standards because they have explanations for having done so. I really should have known that. Oh wait a minute, what&#039;s that other word for explanations ? Oh yeah, excuses, that&#039;s it.</p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, it has been going on a long time, and no I don&#039;t expect you to change either. But lemme ask ya Paul, do you ever read anything that doesn&#039;t support your beliefs ? Other than things I happen to write that you want to disagree with ? You ever read things written by people like oh, Doug Winters, Laura Sperber, Dave Bowers, Greg Reynolds, Mike Fazzari, Randy Campbell, Steve Roach, the list could go on, and on, and on. All of those people and whole lot more comment in their articles and writings time and time again about how often coins are over-graded by the TPGs. Then did ya ever think about this other guy, John Albanese. How many coins are there that have been submitted to CAC that did not get the green bean ? I&#039;ve heard there&#039;s lots of them, far more than those that did get it. And if they didn&#039;t get that green bean then those coins were over-graded by the TPGs - weren&#039;t they ?</p><p><br /></p><p>In one of her articles in the past year Laura Sperber mentioned some numbers. There were 1600 graded coins (NGC and/or PCGS all graded last year) in a specific auction. Of those 1600 she said 200 were monsters, maybe 300 were OK for the grade. And the rest, well you wouldn&#039;t want anything to do with those. Now unless my math is wrong that&#039;s more than 2 to 1 against the TPGs being right - in a single auction. In other words almost 70% of the coins being either over-graded or graded when they didn&#039;t deserve to be graded at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I don&#039;t claim that any of these people specifically follow or support my personal methods for grading Paul. I only claim that they support the same idea that I do, that the TPGs over-grade a whole lot of coins in today&#039;s world. And it&#039;s all out there in black and white, has been for years. All you have to do is go read it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and you have to keep an open mind too. So that when you do read it, at the very least it gives you reason to maybe question what you thought was true. Otherwise you&#039;ll just pass all those folks off as being on the lunatic fringe like you do me.</p><p><br /></p><p>One more thing - all of that above, that&#039;s evidence Paul.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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