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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2012382, member: 112&quot;]Questions were asked, I provided my answers. Can your answers be different ? Absolutely. How or why ? Because it depends on how you look at things regarding etiquette for one, and it also depends on what set of grading standards you use. The ANA standards are what my answers are based on.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are the buyer, so your grading standards are the only ones that matter, not the dealer&#039;s and not the TPG&#039;s. You have to decide if the coin is worth the asking price based on what you think it grades. Not what somebody else thinks it grades. That is what buy the coin not the slab, means.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for building relationships, you don&#039;t ask questions like that of people that you don&#039;t already have a relationship with. Or you shouldn&#039;t anyway. Not if you want to have any hope of maybe establishing a relationship with them. Why ? because you don&#039;t know how they are going to respond or take your question. They might be offended by such questions coming from a stranger. They might think you are questioning their ethics, or accusing them of selling over-graded coins at outrageous and unfair prices. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now once a relationship has already been established, sure you can ask them, Hey Mack, do you think the TPGs over-graded this coin ? And 99 out of a 100 times you will get an honest answer, and why. And there will be no offense taken.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the questions that were asked by the OP, I assumed it was a situation involving two strangers, not 2 friends. Thus my answers. Now that is how I was taught, how I was raised, that is nothing but showing good manners. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you think or feel differently, and apparently you do, well then you do I guess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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