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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1578889, member: 4626&quot;]I&#039;m neutral on whether it&#039;s good, bad or indifferent; they&#039;re not forcing anyone to use it so if someone doesn&#039;t like it, they can just abstain.&nbsp; I will say I&#039;m always a little suspicious when a company promotes a &quot;feature&quot; that basically seems like an advertising vehicle for their services, especially when their service is supposed to be providing a disinterested opinion on the grade/value of the very thing the feature promotes.&nbsp; But just call me cynical lol... but it&#039;s free and anyone who doesn&#039;t like it can just not use it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If there was a charge for registry sets, then I&#039;d say it smells of &quot;conflict of interest,&quot; (since the TPG would then have a financial stake in the specific outcome of the grading process, meaning it&#039;s no longer a disinterested opinion) but I have no moral or intellectual objection to it if it&#039;s free.&nbsp; Can&#039;t say I&#039;m especially interested personally in something that seems to be a way of turning collecting into a competition, but nobody&#039;s pointing a gun to my head and forcing me to use it, so whatever lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course it&#039;s a promotion vehicle for their services, but I don&#039;t see that as an inherently bad thing (again, as long as it&#039;s free), any more than putting up a billboard on the side of the highway to advertise their service would be.&nbsp; Companies have to market themselves somehow.&nbsp; I&#039;m just not personally interested in this type of promotion, but I don&#039;t see anything wrong with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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